Abstract
Pneumonia after Earthquake, Japan, 2011
Highlights
To the Editor: The earthquake that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011, triggered an extremely destructive tsunami [1], which destroyed cities along the Pacific coastline in the Tohoku area and resulted in the loss of >19,000 human lives
Saka General Hospital is located in this region near the coast
During the 6 weeks before the earthquake, pneumonia had been diagnosed for 49 adults, and within the 9 weeks after the earthquake, community-acquired or health care– associated pneumonia was newly diagnosed for 172 adults
Summary
To the Editor: The earthquake that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011, triggered an extremely destructive tsunami [1], which destroyed cities along the Pacific coastline in the Tohoku area and resulted in the loss of >19,000 human lives. Several other hospitals in the area were severely damaged and had difficulty treating patients with severe pneumonia. To identify patients with pneumonia, we checked all chest radiographs and computed tomography scans of adult patients (>16 years of age) who had visited the hospital.
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