7/15/2006

Gee wiz, I wonder why this is happening?

Swimming pool virus spreading in Japan
Crisscross News - Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 06:42 EDT, TOKYO —The institute [sic] said it has received reports of around 41,500 patients between January and late June from around 3,000 designated pediatric clinics. Patients have been reported in all 47 prefectures in the country, it said. The latest figure represents a rise of more than 1.7 times the level of 2004 when a 10-year high was marked.
Since the start of this year, the average number of patients with pharyngoconjunctival fever, commonly called “pool fever” in Japan, per clinic has exceeded the corresponding number in 2004 in almost every week…more….

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Hmmm. now let think about this….

There is no vaccine for pharyngoconjunctival fever and Type 3 of the fever causes blindness. I would rather swim in a toilet.. actually a toilet might be cleaner.. Several times when I’ve been in Toshimaen Pool in those conditions thy annouced over the loudspeakers they needed to close the pool for 30 minutes to, and I quote: “Allow the filters to recover.” The poop in the pool clogs the filters to the point the system overloads. Now there’s a good job for a n00b gaijin/foreigner: “Pool Poop Wranger”.

Toshimaen Pool: Been there. Done that. Got to bite girls’ butts in the crowd.

Tokyo’s Toshimaen Pool that has been “serving pervs like me since 1929!(c)”
Japanese have needed to created a technical word for this pool situation: IMO-ARI (’batch washing of potatoes’)
Hey I ain’t making this up. “like washing potatoes”—so crowded you can’t turn around (water related only). Of course I prefer a more “natural” Japanese swim :-).