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- 14 Jan 2009
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Ryuk:
新型インフル = "new-type influenza" = usually referring to H1N1/swine flu, at least in the news of the moment.
国内流行 = domestic epidemic/epidemic within Japan. 流行 can mean "fashion, craze" etc, but in terms of illness generally refers to an epidemic of something.
It's not the new strain they're declaring, but the fact that it is now an epidemic within Japan. Presumably there is some threshold of infection rate/number of cases/other official statistic that is used to define "epidemic" and it has now been crossed.
ETA: the Japanese wiki entry on 新型インフルエンザ suggests it's a specific term for person-to-person contagious flu, and bird flu seems to also qualify.
新型インフル = "new-type influenza" = usually referring to H1N1/swine flu, at least in the news of the moment.
国内流行 = domestic epidemic/epidemic within Japan. 流行 can mean "fashion, craze" etc, but in terms of illness generally refers to an epidemic of something.
It's not the new strain they're declaring, but the fact that it is now an epidemic within Japan. Presumably there is some threshold of infection rate/number of cases/other official statistic that is used to define "epidemic" and it has now been crossed.
ETA: the Japanese wiki entry on 新型インフルエンザ suggests it's a specific term for person-to-person contagious flu, and bird flu seems to also qualify.