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Horus:
New Zealand has declared a health emergency after 10 sick school pupils were founds to be 'highly likely' to have contracted the Mexican human swine flu virus. The students are among a party of 22, along with three teachers, who are being kept in isolation after returning from a three-week educational trip to Mexico.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5224469/New-Zealand-students-highly-likely-to-have-contracted-swine-flu-virus.html

Horus:
I dont see any news concerning precautionary steps being taken to stop the virus enter in Nigeria.
This mean that the virus can enter in Nigeria at anytime.

Japan Ships Back to Brazil Over 300,000 Dekaseguis (Japanese Brazilians)


Japan is planning to combat unemployment by sending back to their countries of origin 400.000 South American immigrants of Japanese stock, most of them from Brazil. The idea is to pay these immigrants known as dekaseguis a small subsidy and a one way ticket to South America, an initiative that has generated some controversy in the Japanese press.

The immigrants return program, similar to that of Spain, is financed by Japan's ministry of Health, Work and Human Services and became effective April first. The program enables all "nikkeis" (Japanese of South American origin) to receive a subsidy of 2.300 Euros (US$ 3,118) plus 1.560 Euros (US$ 2,115) per family dependent, which should be enough so see them off back to their countries of origin.

According to census data from 2007 there are an estimated 400.000 "nikkei" in Japan of which 310.000 from Brazil; 60.000 from Peru and the rest from Argentina, Bolivia and Colombia.

Brazil which last year celebrated the centenary of Japanese immigration has the largest community with 1.5 million.

Tokyo authorities' decision has three main objectives reports the Japanese press: help "Nikkei" workers return to their countries of origin; ease the domestic labor market and avoid having to pay unemployment insurance to the tune of 1.500 Euros (US$ 2,033) per month.

In the nineties when Japan was short of labor it eased its rigid immigration regulations giving South Americans of Japanese origin the chance to obtain work permits to cover the three "K": Kitsui, Kitani and Kiken, that is the hard, dirty and dangerous jobs the locals refused to apply for.

According to the Tokyo press, authorities were also fearful of having to offer work permits to close trade allies, China and Iran.




http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/10647/1/

Brazilian identity in Japan

In Japan, many Japanese Brazilians suffer prejudice because they do not know how to speak Japanese correctly. Despite their Japanese appearance, Brazilians in Japan are culturally Brazilians, usually only speaking Portuguese, and are treated as foreigners.

The children of Brazilians suffer prejudice in Japanese schools for not knowing the Japanese language. Thousands of Brazilian children are out of school in Japan. Scholars report that many Japanese Brazilians felt (and were often treated) as Japanese in Brazil. But when they move to Japan, they realize that they are totally Brazilian. In Brazil, Japanese Brazilians rarely heard the samba and participated in a carnival parade. However, once in Japan, Japanese Brazilians often promote carnivals and samba festivities in the Japanese cities to demonstrate their pride of being Brazilians.

The Brazilian influence in Japan is growing. Tokyo has the largest carnival parade outside of Brazil itself. Portuguese is the third most spoken foreign language in Japan, after Chinese and Korean, and is among the most studied languages by students in the country. In Oizumi, it is estimated that 15% of the population speak Portuguese as their native language. Japan has two newspapers in Portuguese language, besides radio and television stations spoken in that language. The Brazilian fashion and Bossa Nova music are also popular among Japanese.

In 2005, there were an estimated 302,000 Brazilian nationals in Japan, of whom 25,000 also hold Japanese citizenship. Each year, 4,000 Brazilian immigrants return to Brazil from Japan.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilian

The governor said there was a need to discuss with the residents on the need to relocate them to a place with modern facilities because their consent was need.

“I have to seek your consent on this because resettling people elsewhere in the past had proved difficult,” he told the community representatives, who have lived in the area for years.

The festival began in the year 1934, as a mark of the end of the centuries old hostility between the Sokoto Caliphate and the Kebbi Kingdom

wiki

What causes cold sores?


The herpes simplex virus usually enters the body through a break in the skin around or inside the mouth. It is usually spread when a person touches a cold sore or touches infected fluid-such as from sharing eating utensils or razors, kissing an infected person, or touching that person's saliva.

How can you prevent cold sores?

There are some things you can do to keep from getting the herpes simplex virus.

Avoid coming into contact with infected body fluids, such as kissing an infected person.

Avoid sharing eating utensils, drinking cups, or other items that a person with a cold sore may have used.





After you have been infected with the virus, there is no sure way to prevent more cold sores. But there are some things you can do to reduce your number of outbreaks and prevent spreading the virus.

Avoid the things that trigger your cold sores, such as stress and colds or the flu.

Always use lip balm and sunscreen on your face. Too much sunlight can cause cold sores to flare.

Avoid sharing towels, razors, silverware, toothbrushes, or other objects that a person with a cold sore may have used.

When you have a cold sore, make sure to wash your hands often, and try not to touch your sore. This can help keep you from spreading the virus to your eyes or genital area or to other people.

Talk to your doctor if you get cold sores often. You may be able to take prescription pills to prevent cold sore outbreaks

http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/tc/cold-sores-topic-overview?page=2

ThiefOfHearts:
maybe you can pray for your brother "invisible" who lacks sense.

ElRazur:
I am a bit confused with your post. What is not rocket science? What have I heard?

I am only trying to see if we can achieve a sort of neutral ground here, and like I said before here people's view. Surely not wrong in trying to understand what I perceive as a problem, a very common problem.

India has the highest number of children without adequate care put at 67 million while Nigeria is second with 16 million.

In one of the reports tagged, “Basic Health Care Report Card,” it said that by the sheer population of Nigeria, the country accounted for 10 percent of the number of these deaths globally.

A more damning report on Nigeria was contained in its other report tagged, “World Mothers’ Report,” in which Nigeria was ranked 70 out of 71 less developed countries as the worst places to be a mother.

ElRazur:
Please provide a proof of this instead of taking cheap shots. There isn't anything that wasn't understood from the post. He made a mistake and everyone makes mistakes so what is the problem?

I think folks like you result to taking cheap shot out of your own bitterness. 

tombola:
Tpiah - why not be sorry for yourself miserable self first?

georgecso:
We secured Liberia and S/Leone but ,

tombola:
@Poster

What is your problem distorting stories? A story carried May 22, 2008, you are saying it is a story of April 24 2009?

What is the matter with you? Where in the report is it stated that it is a WHO report?

Not only are Nigerians illetrates, they are fools as well - well, I am not surprised, even the so called travelled fols, they seem to be the worse off for it, look at the comments that followed the wrong report - do they even read? if they read, do they understand?