Swine Flu Hits Kobe

This weekend was supposed to be the festival for the School Anniversary. We planned to cook some food and have a party on sunday.

This morning at 11 AM, about 1 hour before we were planning to go and buy groceries, we got a phone call from the school that the event for this weekend has been cancelled and that classes for next week have been suspended. Apparently 3 High School Students and their teacher were found positive for the H1N1 swine flu virus.

Unfortunately at this point, there is no information on how many others got it. I think it will take few days to know if it's under control or not. The problem is that the students didn't leave the country, therefore they suspect that they caught the virus in Japan, as apparently they didn't have contact with the ones that got it in Osaka (1 hour from kobe).

There is no emergency right now, but i guess some level of precaution will be necessary...