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IASR Vol.21 No.6 June 2000

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Imported dengue fever in Japan

• Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever
  
• The incidence of dengue virus infection among Japanese overseas travelers diagnosed at Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Nagasaki University and Narita Airport Quarantine Station
  
• A dengue fever case among returnees from Sri Lanka, April 2000 - Tokyo
  
• Isolation of enterovirus 71 from a hand, foot and mouth disease case and a meningitis case, March 2000 - Kumamoto
  
• Increased isolation of Salmonella Typhi among returnees from India and Southeast Asia, April-May 2000
  
• The recent trend of spiruroid larva migrans from eating raw firefly squids (Watasenia scintillance) in Japan
  
• Detection of spiruroid larvae from raw firefly squids purchased at markets in Tokyo
  
• An outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis food poisoning due to foodstuffs contaminated from a kitchen blender, November 1999 - Ehime
  
• An outbreak of Salmonella Thompson food poisoning due to a wedding cake - Miyagi
  
• Isolation of influenza virus A(H1N1) from pigs, February 2000 - Saitama
  
• AIDS and HIV infections in Japan, March-April 2000
  

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