4月27日にこのサイトを開設した時点での“豚インフルエンザ・いわゆる第一報”は、第一報のカテゴリーにある記事の通り
豚インフル：メキシコで６０人死亡 ８００人に感染の疑い（毎日新聞4月25日未明）
にしたんですが、ではなぜこれが第一報であると判断したかというと
「googleでニュース検索（日付ソート）した際の最古記事であったから」
それだけです。それ以上でもそれ以下でもありません。でも今回、「何か気がついたらメキシコで豚インフルエンザが流行していて、気がついたらフェーズ５になっていたぜ」状態だったもんで、少し引っかかるところはありました。
さらに、訪問された方の中で「第一報」を検索ワードに来られた方が意外と多かったんで、今回ちょっと調べてみました。「けっ、使えねーサイトだな」と思われたその方々が二度と来ることはないかもしれませんがw せめてもの罪滅ぼしです。
ではレッツ検索！
まずは困った時のグーグル様。ニュース検索･･･。日付ソート！あ、もう記事が6000件もある…。最古記事また探すの面倒だな…。
そんな時には秘技検索オプション！日付を4月1日から4月25日に設定してと･･･。おぉ出てきた、出てきた。と、やっぱり掲載した第一報と大差ない。というわけで、日本の第一報は4月25日未明でお願いします。
さらに、アメリカの新聞調べりゃ何か分かるでしょということで、まずはＮＹＴへ。swine flu で検索すると出るわ出るわ。しかも1990年代のもある…。それはいらないから、とりあえず2009年4月分を探すと、以下の記事が出てきた。
アメリカ時間で4月24日付の記事。
Unusual Strain of Swine Flu Is Found in People in 2 States
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: April 24, 2009
An unusual strain of swine flu is circulating among people in the Southwest but is not known to have caused any deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
The agency, which has found only seven cases, expects to find more now that it has begun looking intensively for them.
“We don’t yet know the extent of the problem,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of respiratory diseases for the agency, “but we don’t think this is a time for major concern.”
Five of the people infected were in Imperial and San Diego Counties in California and two were in San Antonio. They were 9 to 54 years old.
None had any contact with pigs, and in two sets of cases — involving a father and daughter and two 16-year-old schoolmates — those infected had contact with each other. That convinced the authorities that the virus was being transmitted from person to person.
The seven people were apparently infected from late March to mid-April. Only one was hospitalized, and all recovered.
The A (H1N1) flu strain they had was quite unusual, said Dr. Nancy Cox, the chief of the agency’s flu division. It contained gene segments from North American swine, bird and human flu strains as well as one from Eurasian swine.
Like some human strains, it is resistant to two older flu drugs, amantadine and rimantadine. It is not resistant to Tamiflu or Relenza. However, Tamiflu resistance is common in the H1N1 human flu strain circulating this year, so the swine strain could become resistant to Tamiflu if the viruses mixed in humans or, possibly, in pigs.
Swine flus rarely infect humans. There have been about a dozen cases since 2005, but almost all were in farm workers or others in contact with pigs.
In 1976, there was a cluster of swine flu cases among soldiers at Fort Dix, in New Jersey, one of whom died. That led to a rush to make a new vaccine and administer it to 40 million Americans. No epidemic materialized, but thousands of people claimed that the vaccine had given them Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause lethargy or paralysis. The episode led to the resignation of the director of the disease control center, and the agency has been wary of causing panic over influenza cases ever since.
The unusual strain this year was noticed, Dr. Schuchat said, only because the agency was trying out a new diagnostic test at a Navy laboratory and doing more testing than usual through a new Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project along the Mexican border.
Officials at the public health agency in Canada said their Mexican counterparts had warned them this week of a “relatively high” fatality rate for people in Mexico who have had respiratory illnesses this season, some of whom had tested positive for flu. Asked about that, American officials said they had no information. A spokesman said the disease control center had asked Mexican officials to send samples for testing.
The United States flu season is tailing off now. It has been relatively mild; the major surprise had been the widespread Tamiflu resistance in the circulating human H1N1 strain.
Dr. Cox of the disease control center said officials did not yet know whether the flu shot this year protected against the new swine strain.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/us/24flu.html?scp=2&sq=swine+flu&st=nyt
これが4月24日。で、さらにアメリカ版グーグルで秘技日付ソート！記事10000over！というわけで同じ作業をすることにした。そして2009年4月分を探して出てきた以下の記事。
アメリカ時間で4月21日のＣＢＣニュースより。
New type of swine flu found in two children in U.S.: CDC
CBC News
Two children in California have been diagnosed and recovered from a new type of swine flu, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
The cases are raising questions given that the 10-year-old boy in San Diego County and the nine-year-old girl in neighbouring Imperial County apparently had not been exposed to pigs or each other before they were infected with the H1N1 subtype of influenza A.
The children were diagnosed last week.
An investigation is underway and the World Health Organization and officials in Canada and Mexico have been informed, officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said.
Both children became sick in late March and experienced fever and coughing. The boy also vomited.
Some of the boy's relatives also had flu-like symptoms, but they were not tested for the virus.
It's not clear whether a swine version of H1N1 is circulating widely or if it could trigger a pandemic in humans, the CDC said.
Human swine influenza on the rise in U.S.
While the U.S. agency has received reports of about one case of human swine influenza infection every year or two, more than 12 such cases have been reported since late 2005 — mostly among people exposed to pigs.
The girl went to an agricultural fair four weeks before she got sick, but her family said she did not touch a pig.
It's thought that better and broader diagnostic testing as well as genetic mutations could be fuelling the uptick in cases.
Early tests suggest this flu strain is resistant to amantadine and rimantadine, two common antiviral medications. A more common strain infecting people this flu season in Canada and the U.S. also does not respond to those drugs.
The current seasonal flu vaccine may not protect against this swine strain, health officials said.
There's no need for the public to take any unusual measures, the agency said in its alert to doctors and public health officials.
A senior official with WHO said they are watching the situation closely and there is no need to change the pandemic alert level.
With files from The Associated Press, The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/21/swine-flu-children.html
これが第一報でいいですか？
アメリカ時間ベースに考えると
4月21日：ＣＤＣによる発表→アメリカで第一報
※ちなみにＣＤＣは米国疾病予防管理センター
⇒さらにＷＨＯがいろんなところ調べたらメキシコが相当ヤバくなっていた
4月24日：ＷＨＯの警告→日本で第一報
こんな流れですか。
というわけで結論。
結論：
①第一報はアメリカ時間4月21日
②日本における第一報はアメリカ時間4月24日（日本時間4月25日未明）
第一報に興味のある方は是非検索してみてください。恐ろしくつまらない作業ですw
