Three Locally Transmitted Dengue Fever Cases Reported. Mosquitoes in Yoyogi Park?
Sep 5, 2014, 5:28 am
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Reports on a person catching dengue fever from a mosquito bite in Shinjuku Chou Kouen.
http://www.tokyohyattfan.com/2014/09...k-hyatt-tokyo/
http://www.tokyohyattfan.com/2014/09...k-hyatt-tokyo/
Chou? I thought it is a butterfly park. Did you mean Chuo?
Sep 5, 2014, 5:39 am
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Sep 5, 2014, 5:53 am
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Sep 5, 2014, 6:16 am
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Was just kidding. I'll cut my losses now.
You can check out the park website in Japanese.
http://parks.prfj.or.jp/shinjuku/
You can check out the park website in Japanese.
http://parks.prfj.or.jp/shinjuku/
Sep 5, 2014, 7:47 am
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This might be the thread to mention potential dengue fever transmission hotspots.
Drawing on my experience of LapLap lapping by the metropolitan mosquito population I nominate the following in order of viciousness of the local small winged inhabitants.
1. Institute of Nature Study between Meguro and Shirokanedai stations.
2. The gardens surrounding the Sheraton Miyako in Shirokanedai (As well as Happo En)
3. The area where the foreigners' graveyards are in Yokohama.
Yoyogi park is actually quite low on my personal grievance list.
Drawing on my experience of LapLap lapping by the metropolitan mosquito population I nominate the following in order of viciousness of the local small winged inhabitants.
1. Institute of Nature Study between Meguro and Shirokanedai stations.
2. The gardens surrounding the Sheraton Miyako in Shirokanedai (As well as Happo En)
3. The area where the foreigners' graveyards are in Yokohama.
Yoyogi park is actually quite low on my personal grievance list.
Sep 5, 2014, 1:42 pm
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This might be the thread to mention potential dengue fever transmission hotspots.
Drawing on my experience of LapLap lapping by the metropolitan mosquito population I nominate the following in order of viciousness of the local small winged inhabitants.
1. Institute of Nature Study between Meguro and Shirokanedai stations.
2. The gardens surrounding the Sheraton Miyako in Shirokanedai (As well as Happo En)
3. The area where the foreigners' graveyards are in Yokohama.
Yoyogi park is actually quite low on my personal grievance list.
Drawing on my experience of LapLap lapping by the metropolitan mosquito population I nominate the following in order of viciousness of the local small winged inhabitants.
1. Institute of Nature Study between Meguro and Shirokanedai stations.
2. The gardens surrounding the Sheraton Miyako in Shirokanedai (As well as Happo En)
3. The area where the foreigners' graveyards are in Yokohama.
Yoyogi park is actually quite low on my personal grievance list.
Sep 5, 2014, 2:06 pm
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I recall being bitten by those black and white Aedes mosquitos on a summer camp in rural Tokyo many years ago. I called them zebra mozzies (apparently, they're more commonly called "tiger mosquitos"). They seemed to be silent, low flying (bit my legs but not my arms), and they were only in one shaded area of the camp, near the entrance to the camp accommodations. The bites were quite painful but they didn't make my skin welt up like some mosquito bites do.
Apparently, only about 5% of people who are infected with Dengue virus actually feel sick, so for every reported case, you can be sure that there are many more unreported cases.
Apparently, only about 5% of people who are infected with Dengue virus actually feel sick, so for every reported case, you can be sure that there are many more unreported cases.
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Sep 5, 2014, 3:02 pm
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I recall being bitten by those black and white Aedes mosquitos on a summer camp in rural Tokyo many years ago. I called them zebra mozzies (apparently, they're more commonly called "tiger mosquitos"). They seemed to be silent, low flying (bit my legs but not my arms), and they were only in one shaded area of the camp, near the entrance to the camp accommodations. The bites were quite painful but they didn't make my skin welt up like some mosquito bites do.
Apparently, only about 5% of people who are infected with Dengue virus actually feel sick, so for every reported case, you can be sure that there are many more unreported cases.
Apparently, only about 5% of people who are infected with Dengue virus actually feel sick, so for every reported case, you can be sure that there are many more unreported cases.
Sep 6, 2014, 5:36 pm
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Apparently it's 71 confirmed cases now (as jib71 mentioned, only a small percentage of those infected experience reportable symptoms) and part of Umi No Koen to the South of Yokohama has been closed also.
Source: http://es.ipcdigital.com/2014/09/07/...cia-de-dengue/
Source: http://es.ipcdigital.com/2014/09/07/...cia-de-dengue/
Sep 6, 2014, 10:03 pm
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There was an outbreak in Long Island last year and almost certainly it is the same species, Aedes albopictus, ヒトスジシマカ. which was implicated in an outbreak in Nagasaki from WWII soldiers in the early 1940s. Although I've read reports of the main mosquito Aedes aegypti being found on planes bound for Japan so wear your repellent at the airport if you have exposed skin.
It feeds during the day and prefers shaded areas.
It feeds during the day and prefers shaded areas.
Sep 8, 2014, 12:58 am
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You would think that they would curtail all events in and around the park, not yesterday, there was some sort of festival right across the street on the NHK side. Quite a few people walking up to the park gates and taking pictures in t-shirts, shorts/mini-skirts, sandals.