Coughs, cold, fever at epidemic level
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Fri, Jan 21, 2011 - Straits Times
By Salma Khalik
UNUSUALLY large numbers of people are falling ill with sore throats, the common cold, fever and diarrhoea - numbers large enough to classify the infections as an epidemic.
Last week, polyclinics saw more than 20,000 patients with such problems - an indication that the infections have passed the epidemic threshold and are now spreading rapidly in the community.
Polyclinics see roughly 20 per cent of primary care patients, so the Ministry of Health (MOH) uses its patient numbers to gauge the level of infectious illnesses in the country.
When the numbers at polyclinics top 17,032 cases a week in the case of acute respiratory infections (ARI), it is severe enough to be classified as an epidemic.
Last week, 18,377 patients turned up at polyclinics with ARI, a term used to cover a range of infections such as the common cold, influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia. This is almost 1,000 cases more a day than the norm.
In fact, the number of such patients at polyclinics jumped from 2,842 a day the previous week to 3,341 last week.
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epic....
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Mine was last week.
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the next wave is coming....
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Jan 27, 2011 - Straits Times
MOH issues alert as flu cases soar
By Salma Khalik, Health Correspondent
THE cold and flu epidemic has worsened here, with 20,702 people seeking treatment at polyclinics last week.
Cases - including pneumonia and bronchitis - rose by 13 per cent compared with the week before.
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when to see the doc yesterday boy....the clinic was full......
Here is one observation i notice ---- There is a general believe that body can heal itself.....
While the notion is True body can healed itself but when you have a FLU please stayed at home....but most of us cannot afford to stay at home and let the body recovered by itself because we need to WORK....
So if you have to go to work please take medication rest at home for a speedy recovery instead of being a WALKING FLU BUG that infect everyone in the Train, Buses, Work place......
So while the body take times to heal by itself......You are killing others...!!!! Think again....the notion that body healed itself.....
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
when to see the doc yesterday boy....the clinic was full......
Here is one observation i notice ---- There is a general believe that body can heal itself.....
While the notion is True body can healed itself but when you have a FLU please stayed at home....but most of us cannot afford to stay at home and let the body recovered by itself because we need to WORK....
So if you have to go to work please take medication rest at home for a speedy recovery instead of being a WALKING FLU BUG that infect everyone in the Train, Buses, Work place......
So while the body take times to heal by itself......You are killing others...!!!! Think again....the notion that body healed itself.....
sick logic.
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this is what u call widespread immunisation