Philippines: Dengue cases 2009

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Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/209119/86-die-dengue

86 die from dengue
By JENNY F. MANONGDO
July 3, 2009, 6:18pm

Nearly 9,000 patients have become afflicted with dengue during the first half of the year, the Department of Health (DoH) reported adding that 86 Filipinos have perished from this mosquito-borne disease in its latest surveillance update on the disease.

A total of 8,442 dengue cases were admitted in DoH-sentinel hospitals nationwide from January to May 31, the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) Public Health Surveillance and Informatics Division of the DoH reported.

This figure is 48.1 percent lower than the figures on the same period last year. The youngest dengue patient registered is an infant less than a month old and the oldest is 93 years old. Majority of the cases were males and seventy percent of the cases belonged to the one to 20 years age group.

Health officials are closely monitoring the areas of Manila and Quezon City, two areas in the National Capital Region (NCR) that posted the highest number of dengue cases in the Department of Health (DoH) dengue surveillance report covering May 17 to 23.

The 20th morbidity week surveillance update of the DoH-NEC registered the city of Manila as the city with the most number of dengue cases at 408 with one death followed by Quezon City with 378 cases and five deaths. However, Manila's dengue incidence is 59 percent lower than last year's figure at 865 and Quezon City is 52 percent lower at last year's 789 cases.

But the Department of Health (DoH) said the public should not be complacent about this as the illness may climb during the rainy season.

Apart from Manila and QC, Caloocan was also identified as one of the top cities with the most number of dengue cases at 162 and two deaths; Navotas with 157 cases with no death and Paranaque with 128 cases and two deaths.

In the recent launch of the nationwide anti-dengue campaign, DoH Secretary Francisco T. Duque III emphasized that dengue is more ?fatal? than the influenza A (H1N1).

He said the Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) of A (H1N1) is less than one percent compared to dengue's CFR of one percent.

Symptoms of dengue include sudden onset of high fever for 2 to 7 days, joint and muscle pains, pain behind the eyes, weakness, and red and tiny spots in the skin that evolve into rashes.

Dr. Lyndon Lee Suy, Infectious diseases specialist of the DoH said the public should continue to implement the 4-S strategy in destroying the breeding sites of mosquitoes. This is the Search and Destroy strategy, Self-protection, Seek early treatment and Say no to indiscriminate fogging.

According to experts, dengue mosquitoes breed on clean and stagnant water such as flower vases, old tires and tin cans.

The DoH named the regions with the highest number of dengue cases: NCR (1,935); Davao region (1140); CALABARZON (1,043); Central Visayas (633); Western Visayas (556).

In Manila, the following towns have the most number of infections: Sampaloc and Tondo.

In Quezon City, the towns of Commonwealth, Bagumbayan, Novaliches, Krus na Ligas, Payatas, Project 2, San Roque and Tandang Sora had the highest number of dengue cases.

Makati, Navotas, Taguig and Pasig City were also found to have clustering of dengue cases.

Other dengue hotspots within the past four weeks are Bulacan, Negros Occidental, Iloilo, Davao Del Sur, South Cotabato and Surigao del Sur.

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Source: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2009.../topstory8.htm

IN BACOLOD
Dengue cases rise
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The recorded number of dengue cases in Bacolod City rose to 315 as of June 24, records from the Bacolod City Health Office showed.

The CHO recorded 257 cases as of June 6, but only two recorded deaths from January this year ? a 5-year-old girl from Handumanan, and a 10-month old baby from Vista Alegre.

City Health Officer Dr. Salome Bi?as yesterday said they are intensifying their campaign against the spread of dengue. She said the number of cases is expected to rise during rainy season and is highest in July.

CHO Statistician Warlito Vallente said the number of dengue cases started to rise in the first two weeks of June.

Meanwhile, the number of students from St. John?s Institute who have fever dropped to three as of yesterday, from seven last Wednesday.

Bi?as said they were diagnosed to have nasopharyngitis and asthma.

SJI suspended all classes this week after several of its students were hit by the flu. Classes will resume on Monday after the school has been disinfected to prevent the possible spread of Influenza A(H1N1).

Bi?as had earlier said that the suspension of classes is part of the precautionary measures implemented to allay apprehensions of parents since several students were found having fever in school.

The number rose to 135 Monday from 53 Friday. This went down to 46 on Tuesday and seven on Wednesday.*CGS

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Child, 3, is 11th victim of dengue in Cebu
Saturday, July 4, 2009


CEBU CITY -- Dengue has claimed its 11th victim in this city this year with the death of a three-year-old child last July 1, a day after she was brought to the Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC).

Assistant City Epidemiologist Durinda Macasocol said the parents of the child reportedly took her fever for granted for days, and only decided to bring her to the hospital after she worsened.

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?Dugay gihatod ba sa parents,? she said. She again advised the public to immediately bring family members sick with fever to the hospital for check-up.

She advised parents against waiting three days or more to have their loved ones checked for dengue fever.

?Dili man na Ginoo ang mga doctor nga makaya pa nila?g luwas ang tawo kung grabe na (Our doctors are mere humans who cannot save all those in critical condition),? she said.

The child from A. Lopez St. was the third victim to die of dengue fever in Barangay Labangon this year.

His death came 12 days after a four-year-old boy from Barangay Talamban succumbed to dengue last month.

The victim from Talamban had fever on June 16, but was brought to the hospital only last June 20.

A 10-year-old girl from Sikatuna St. died of dengue last May 9. She was the ninth dengue fatality in the city this year.

Macasocol said that City Hall offers free complete blood count and platelet count to possible cases of dengue, so there should have been no reason for residents not to bring the sick to the CCMC or to the barangay health centers for consultation.

City Health Department records showed that 381 persons have contracted dengue fever in Cebu City from January 1 to June 20 this year. That figure is 41.65 percent lower compared to the 653 cases recorded during the same period last year.

While 11 lives were lost this year, the number is 62 percent lower compared to 29 deaths due to dengue last year.

Signs and symptoms of dengue include high fever, body weakness, abdominal pain, vomiting and in worse cases, nosebleeds.

Macasocol said awareness of dengue and proper sanitation are necessary to combat the disease.

That is why, she said, the CHD and the 80 barangay captains of the city have agreed to make every first Saturday of the month a ?cleaning day,? when residents should ?seek and destroy? mosquito breeding sites. (RHM of Sun.Star Cebu)

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Dengue kills 7 victims in Central Luzon
Regions
Written by Joel P. Mapiles / Correspondent
Sunday, 05 July 2009 19:19

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO?During the first six month of 2009, seven deaths from Pampanga and Bulacan were recorded by the Department of Health (DOH) in Region 3 out of the 654 cases of hemorrhagic dengue fever traced in Central Luzon.

This figure excluded those cases from Tarlac as DOH Region 3 is still gathering data from the province as of this writing.

As this developed, DOH Region 3 director Rio Magpantay announced the launching of a ?dengue-free school? in cooperation with the Department of Education. Magpantay said most patients stricken by this disease were young people aged 5 to 14.

Dr. Roda Cruz, an officer from the DOH Regional Health Office, said that with the dengue-free school drive, the DOH is now implementing a series of dengue-prevention activities in cooperation with school administrators and local government units operating within school campuses.

Last month the DOH also launched a nationwide antidengue campaign dubbed as ?Ako, Ikaw, Tayong Lahat Laban sa Dengue.?

Magpantay disclosed that the first six months of this year showed a steady decrease in the number of reported dengue cases, down 70 percent compared with the same period in 2008.

Magpantay said that despite the remarkable decrease in the number of reported cases, there is still a need to intensify the campaign against dengue as this poses a danger to the general population.

Meanwhile, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III cited the role of local government officials in spearheading the campaign in their respective localities.

Duque said the DOH launched what it called the ?4S? strategy involving ?search and destroy, self-protection, seeking early treatment, and saying no to indiscriminate fogging.?

?With the 4S campaign made in communities and schools last year, people became more aware of how easy it was to prevent the spread of the dengue-carrying mosquitoes,? Duque said.

?Our success last year, however, should not lull us into complacency this year,? Duque noted. He added that dengue is now a year-round phenomenon in the country due to climate change.

Duque also underscored the prevalence of what he called WILD diseases during the rainy season. These consist of waterborne infectious diseases, influenza, leptospirosis and dengue. He added that these WILD diseases are easily preventable if only people follow the advisories issued by the DOH on television, radio, newspapers and even on the Internet via the DOH web site.

According to Duque, it will only take about 30 seconds of washing the hands with soap and water or the equivalent of singing the ?Happy Birthday? song twice in order to remove most bacteria.

Duque also said the use of handkerchiefs or disposable tissue when coughing or sneezing can help prevent the transmission of disease through droplet infection.

?The most important key to prevent and control diseases is empowering our people with correct information so that they can take steps to stop and prevent the transmission of communicable diseases through proper and timely health-seeking behavior,? Duque concluded.

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Source: http://www.thenewstoday.info/2009/07...red.to.13.html

Updated July 7, 2009 Iloilo City, Philippines
Dengue deaths registered to 13

By Maricar M. Calubiran

The number of dengue deaths in the city continues to increase registering 13 deaths and 87 people affected. The figure obtained from the City Health Office (CHO) was recorded from January to July 3, 2009. As such, the chief executive reiterated his executive orders to all barangay officials for a massive clean up activities.

The latest statistics released by the health office prompted Mayor Jerry Tre?as to repeat his May 20, 2009 order to all punong barangays in the city for clean up activities in order to eliminate and destroy the breeding places of dengue-carrying mosquitoes.

The chief executive stressed the importance of cleanliness in eliminating the spread of dengue-carrying measures. The May 20 order was issued with an aim to prevent deaths and cases of dengue in the city. He wants the punong barangays to lead the clean-up activities to ensure the participation of the residents.

Tre?as will also send letters to all the principals of public elementary and secondary schools to discuss the threat brought about by dengue in all parents and teachers association (PTA) meetings. The discussion about dengue in the school will help the parents as well as the school children understand the dreaded dengue virus and the importance of pro-active measures.

The mayor will also send communication to all parishes and church-based organizations relative to the dengue preventive measures. He will request that priests will include in their homilies the importance of cleanliness in the fight against dengue which continually claimed lives.

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Sunday, 12 July 2009
Dengue claims 10 lives in Valencia PDF Print E-mail
by Walter I. Balane/MindaNews
Saturday, 11 July 2009
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 July) ? Two children died this week of dengue in Valencia City, bringing to 10 the death toll among 200 cases since the start of the year, officials from the Valencia City Health Office said. Eight of the 10 died in the last three months as local health officials battle the mosquito-borne disease with both preventive and control strategies in the city that has topped Bukidnon?s dengue-prone areas in the last 10 years.

Jovencio San Mateo, Valencia City dengue coordinator, announced on radio station DXDB that more than half of the 200 cases was traced to residents in the city?s poblacion barangay.

San Mateo told MindaNews last March that two persons of the then 67 cases of dengue in the city, died.

San Mateo said they have recommended for the declaration of a dengue outbreak in two villages where transmission has been considered high.

San Mateo identified the two villages as Purok 16, Gawad Kalinga, Bagonta-as and Purok 4 in Barangay Barobo.

Villa Rezon, CHO sanitary inspector, said they consider dengue as a top priority. But she said they recognize that the cases were expected to increase this year following a three-year cycle observed by local dengue control officials.

San Mateo explained that they recommended the two villages because transmission there has been fast in last two weeks. In the case of poblacion barangay, he noted that the more than a hundred cases there have been ?staggered? in occurrence.

He said the cases in downtown Valencia City appeared to be high because the population in the area is also high.

But he admitted it is already dengue season, although he added they have not anticipated dengue cases to rise this high at this time.

San Mateo announced their preventive and control campaign around the city. He said June is dengue awareness month.

San Mateo said people in the poblacion can easily run to the city?s hospitals for medication.

It is in the barangay, he said, that mortality rate is higher because they resort to traditional healing methods or self healing.

But he said dengue statistics cannot be compared in the two areas.

Meanwhile, Marsman Dinamling, an aide at the Office of the Malaybalay City Malaria/Dengue Coordinator, said the city only has 10 confirmed cases of dengue from January to May 2009.

Romeo Sulit, provincial field operations officer of the Department of Health office in Bukidnon, told MindaNews earlier that over the last 10 years, Valencia City consistently has the most number of cases throughout the province.

He also cited an observation that the total number of cases of dengue infection rise in a three-year cycle due to the level of vigilance of the public.

Citing it as the second year, he said they had approximately 1,400 cases in 2007. It went down to 280, or 80 percent down, in 2008.

Sulit said they are indeed expecting an upsurge of cases in 2009 that?s why they have alarmed the public about it during their information, education, and communication campaigns.

He said the present number of cases is alarming. He cited that the surge in transmission is common towards the end of summer and will peak from June to July.

He has likewise called on the public to clean up and never to relax in the fight against dengue. (Walter I. Balane / MindaNews)

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Bacolod CHO records 3 Dengue deaths
By Serge C. Santillan

BACOLOD CITY -- The Bacolod City Health Office reported another casualty of dengue, bringing it to three since January this year.

The latest was a 5-year-old boy from Barangay Estefania, Bacolod City who succumbed to dengue fever Wednesday last week.

The two other victims, who died early this year, were a 10-month old baby from Vista Alegre, and a 5-year-old girl from Handumanan.

The number of reported dengue cases as of July 4 is 412, while the total number of cases in 2008 was 462, with four recorded deaths.

City Health Officer Dr. Salome Bi?as yesterday said they are intensifying their campaign in the barangays against the spread of dengue especially because the number of cases is expected to rise during the rainy season.

People are urged to empty stagnant water from old tires, trash cans, and flower pots. People are also advised to wear long pants and long sleeves.

For personal protection, use mosquito repellant sprays that contain DEET when visiting places where dengue is endemic. Limiting exposure to mosquitoes by avoiding standing water and staying indoors two hours after sunrise and before sunset will help.

The Aedes aegypti mosquito is a daytime biter with peak periods of biting around sunrise and sunset. It may bite at any time of the day and is often hidden inside homes or other dwellings, especially in urban areas.

Bi?as also asked the public to observe cleanliness and rid their surroundings of breeding places of mosquitoes.

CHO records revealed that cases of dengue started to rise within the first two weeks of June, CHO Statistician Warlito Vallente said.

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Source: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2009/July/15/negor1.htm

IN NEG.OR.
Dengue cases increase
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

The number of dengue cases reported in Negros Oriental since January this year has risen by 32.6 percent over last year?s figures for the same period, the Department of Health office in the province said.

Dr. Socrates Villamor, provincial DOH team leader, said the latest report on July 8 showed that 574 dengue patients have been admitted to the three tertiary care hospitals in Dumaguete City.

In the same period last year, the DOH recorded only 436 cases.

Two dengue-related deaths were also reported this year, one each from the towns of Valencia and Basay.

Dumaguete had the highest number of dengue cases at 227, followed by Tanjay City, 73; Sibulan, 59; Bayawan, 30; Mabinay, 17; Bais City, 16; Amlan and Ayungon towns, 14 each; and Manjuyod and Valencia, 13 each.

The increase in the number of dengue cases is expected with the onset of the rainy season as the virus is being transmitted between humans via a mosquito vector, the Aedes Aegypti, and Aedes Albopictus.

But Villamor also expressed concern that, with the changing weather patterns, there is no longer a definite ?rainy season? in the country, which means, that dengue cases could occur even during the summer months.

The dengue carrier mosquito is endemic to Negros Oriental, therefore, local government units and the general public must take the necessary preventive measures to counter the rise in dengue cases.

Foremost is to eradicate the breeding places of mosquitoes, Villamor said. He also advised students to apply mosquito repellants or wear long pants at school, if possible.

The dengue mosquito is a low-flying insect that appears mostly during late afternoon or early morning.

Another precaution is the use of mosquito nets, but this is a last option as it is very costly, Villamor added.*JFP

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Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...Visayas-double

Dengue deaths in W. Visayas double

By Nestor P. Burgos Jr.
Inquirer Visayas
First Posted 17:37:00 07/19/2009


ILOILO CITY, Philippines -- Health officials in the Western Visayas region have heightened their campaign against cases of dengue fever amid an increase in the number of peope falling ill and dying of the disease in 2009.

The Department of Health?s Center for Health Development (DoH-CHD) reported that 24 persons died due to dengue infection from January to July 11, 2009.

This is more than double the 11 fatalities reported in the same period in 2008.

The total number of cases has also increased by 24 percent from 1,491 to 1,515 this year.

"We have called the attention of all stakeholders, especially the local government units and communities. We must do something about this because the cases are still increasing," regional epidemiologist Doctor Jessie Glen Alonsabe told the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net) in a telephone interview.

Most of the cases were reported in Iloilo with 801, followed by Negros Occidental (551), Capiz (81), Aklan (43), Guimaras (33) and Antique (six).

Iloilo also accounted for most of the fatalities with 21 while Negros Occidental had two and Capiz had one.

More than half of the cases involved children aged 10 years old and below, according to the DOH-CHD in Western Visayas.

Dengue is a virus caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which causes a severe flu-like illness. The disease is potentially fatal but could be managed through early detection.

The symptoms of dengue fever are high fever, rashes, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, and muscle and joint pain.

It is mostly found in tropical and sub-tropical climates worldwide, mostly in urban and semi-urban areas.

Alonsabe said local government units, schools, village and neighborhood associations, and community leaders should heighten their campaign to clean communities and households of the potential breeding grounds of mosquitoes.

These include cleaning or emptying water containers or other objects such as empty tires, vases, bottles and pots that can accumulate stagnant water.


"It is better, easier and cheaper to locate these breeding places and eliminate the larvae of mosquitoes rather than use insect repellents for adult mosquitoes," Alonsabe said.

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July 20, 2009 Iloilo City, Philippines
Iloilo City tops Dengue fever cases in W.Visayas

By Maricar M. Calubiran

Dengue cases in Western Visayas have reached to 1,515 cases with 24 deaths recorded. Iloilo City has the most number of cases and deaths for the first seven months of the year. In Iloilo City, there are 447 cases with 16 deaths. The figures provided by the Department of Health (DOH) 6 covers from January to July 11, 2009.

The health department has identified three barangays in the city where most of the dengue cases occurred. They are barangays Sto. Nino, Arevalo; San Juan, Molo and Veterans Village, City Proper.

The number of dengue cases in the city tremendously increased in spite of the call of Mayor Jerry Tre?as to all the residents, barangay officials, private organizations, civic groups and the Church to help in the campaign. An executive order was handed down to 180 barangay captains in the city to implement a continuous clean up activities in their respective barangays to eliminate the breeding place of the mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus.

The chief executive wants a search and destroy operation of the mosquito breeding places to prevent the virus-carrying mosquito from spreading. He acknowledged the need to further strengthen the city?s action plan against dengue. He described dengue as more dangerous compared to influenza A(H1N1). The City Health Office (CHO) has formed a group to address the information campaign in the fight against dengue.

Last week, the mayor has reminded all the punong barangays of their action regarding the campaign against dengue as he stressed the importance of clean-up activities in driving off the mosquitoes.

In the DOH-6, report, Negros Occidental followed Iloilo City with 346 cases with two deaths; Iloilo province, 333 cases with five deaths; Bacolod City 203 cases with no deaths; Capiz 80 cases with one death; Aklan 43 cases with no registered deaths; Guimaras with 33 cases with no deaths and the province of Antique with six cases and no deaths.

The DOH-6 came up with the total of 1,515 cases by summing up the 1,491 cases recorded in the entire region with the 24 recorded deaths.

The health department noted an increase of 24 percent in the dengue cases compared in 2008 of the same period. The age level of the dengue victims ranges from as young as three months old to 75 years old. Female victims comprised the most number of victims reaching to 54 percent.

The same DOH-6 report recommended regular clean-up drive and advised the parents or guardians of the victims to seek immediate medical intervention. A continuous surveillance and monitoring activities in all health facilities is also recommended.

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3rd student with dengue dies in Digos

Affected public school suspends classes
By Eldie Aguirre
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 16:17:00 07/21/2009

DIGOS CITY, Philippines?Classes at the Digos Central Elementary School, one of the city's largest elementary schools with a population of over 3,000, were suspended starting Tuesday after the death of a third student from dengue.

The latest victim died on Sunday, Carlos Estrosa, city sanitary inspector, said.

Estrosa said the suspension of classes would allow them to minimize, if not eradicate the mosquito population in the school and other areas in the city.

"This would allow health officials and other government functionaries to conduct a massive clean up drive and fumigation throughout the school premises," he said.

Estrosa said based on their inspection, they found a big population of the dengue-causing mosquito, Aedis Egypti albopictos, in the school and in the village of Zone I, where it is located.

?The inspection team further discovered more larvae in June and July and they hide everywhere," he said.

The city health office said it was not only monitoring Zone I but other villages as well.

From January to July, 68 dengue cases were reported in the city and the number was increasing, according to Mayor Arsenio Latasa.

?Nobody will be spared from this illness, so we have to cooperate with our health authorities through the constant cleaning of our surrounding and the observance of the 4 O?clock habit,? Latasa said. The "4 O?clock habit" is the cleanup of schools at 4 p.m. everyday.

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Source: http://www.thenewstoday.info/2009/07...s.in.city.html

July 21, 2009 Iloilo City, Philippines
DOH, CHO show conflicting data on dengue cases in city

By Maricar M. Calubiran

The Department of Health (DOH)-6 and the City Health Office (CHO) showed conflicting data on the number of dengue cases in Iloilo City.

The number of dengue cases in Iloilo City posted in DOH-6 website is over by 300 cases compared to the data released by the CHO.

DOH-6 website posted that dengue cases in Iloilo City registered to 447 with 16 deaths or a total of 463 cases covering the period from January to July 11, 2009. The fatality rate for Iloilo City reached to 3.5 percent. Based on the DOH data Iloilo City has the most number of dengue cases in the whole Western Visayas.

Meanwhile, in the CHO report, there are only 100 dengue cases in the city. The figure covers the period from January to July 17, 2009. Of the 100 cases, only 14 were confirmed dead. CHO is still validating the report regarding the death of another victim at the Fil-Am Compound in Jaro district.

Mayor Jerry Tre?as said they will check with the DOH-6 on how the said agency arrived with their figures. He did not elaborate more regarding the disparity between the figures from the DOH-6 and the CHO.

In a related development, Tre?as said they are still confirming the report about the alleged 15th dengue death in Iloilo City.

Tre?as reiterated that the city government is intensifying the campaign against dengue fever. He is calling for the concerted effort of the community in the move to eliminate the dengue-carrying mosquitoes. He also reiterated the danger of the disease to the victim. It is more dangerous compared to influenza A(H1N1).

The increase in dengue cases continue in spite of the ?4S? campaign pushed by the city health office. The 4S refers to: search and destroy breeding places of mosquitoes, self-protection by wearing proper clothing, seek early consultation and say no to indiscriminate fogging. Fogging is discouraged as it brings risks to individuals suffering from asthma.

The mayor stressed the importance of a continuous clean-up activities especially in dengue-stricken barangays in the city to eliminate the habitat of the mosquitoes. He recommended the emptying of containers and cleaning of drainage to kill the wrigglers.

The DOH-6 identified the barangays of Sto. Nino Sur, Arevalo, San Juan, Molo and Veterans Village with the most number of dengue cases in Iloilo City.

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Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...d-in-Naga-City

Dengue alert raised in Naga City

By Juan Escandor Jr.
Inquirer Southern Luzon
First Posted 14:37:00 07/21/2009

Filed Under: Health, Diseases, Epidemic and Plague

NAGA CITY, Philippines ? The city health officer has raised an alert for dengue fever after recording one death among 120 cases from 22 of the city?s 27 villages in the first six months of 2009.

Dr. Vito Borja, city health officer, revealed Tuesday that the number of dengue cases was expected to increase in the months of July to September, as what had happened in the past few years.

Borja said the number of dengue cases in the first half of 2009 was actually lower than the 129 recorded in the same period of 2008 but no death was recorded last year.

He said the village with highest number of cases was Concepcion Peque?a with 40.

The other villages with a high number of cases were Triangulo, 11; Concepcion Grande, 8 cases; and the villages of Calaug, Sta. Cruz and Sabang with 7 cases each.

Borja said the villages of Tinago and Balatas had six cases each while Bagumbayan Sur had 4.

Other villages affected had at least 3 cases each.

He said that as long as there are mosquito-carriers, the dengue remains a health threat in the city as he cannot foresee its eradication in the near future.

Borja said that as a preventive measure, the city government has been conducting an information and education campaign in the villages. He added that they recently reactivated the ?dengue brigade? to monitor the clean-up drive to destroy the breeding areas of dengue-causing mosquitoes.

He said the city government earlier coordinated with village officials to implement ?rabus? (community) cleanup and the school officials to observe the 4 p.m. clean-up drive in schools.

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DOH SAYS
Dengue claims 104 lives thus far this year

By Dona Pazzibugan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 17:29:00 07/22/2009

Filed Under: Health, Epidemic and Plague, Diseases

MANILA, Philippines?Dengue has claimed at least 104 lives and afflicted over 10,000 others during the first half of the year, according to the Department of Health.

The latest surveillance report of the DoH's National Epidemiology Center showed that 10,383 dengue cases have been recorded in sentinel hospitals nationwide from January 1 to June 20.

While the figure is still high, the DoH pointed out that this was 45 percent lower compared to the number of cases reported in the same period last year -- 18,966 cases.

Health officials have repeatedly warned that the public should be more wary of dengue rather than the novel influenza A(H1N1) virus. The DoH has so far confirmed three H1N1-related deaths while most cases have reportedly been mild in nature.

The National Capital Region continues to hold the highest number of dengue cases at 2,440 with 21 deaths. Manila and Quezon City continue to have the biggest number of recorded cases, with 532 and 463, respectively.

All cities in Metro Manila showed significant reduction in the number of dengue cases compared to the same period last year, except Navotas where cases rose from 155 to 245.

Other regions that reported more than a thousand cases were Calabarzon with 1,782 cases and 20 deaths; the Davao provinces with 1,141 cases and 5 deaths; and Western Visayas with 1,066 cases and 12 deaths.

The DoH-NEC also reported that clustering of cases was observed in the cities of Lipa, Batangas; San Pablo, Laguna; Lucena, Quezon; Naga, Camarines Sur; Iloilo, Iloilo, as well as in the towns of Leganes, Leon and Oton, all in Iloilo.

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Source: http://www.thenewstoday.info/2009/07...dengue.78.html

July 24, 2009 Iloilo City, Philippines
Capiz H1N1 cases up to 13, Dengue, 78

By Joel E. Capundan

ROXAS CITY ? A(H1N1) influenza victims in Capiz province abruptly increased from 5 to13 while dengue fever also increased to 78 victims with one death as of press time, Dra. Amelita Robles, City Health Officer, said last Wednesday.

According to Robles, out of 48 A(H1N1) victims in the whole region, 13 victims are from Capiz province in which 8 are from this city.

Provincial administrator Mr. Zoe Hererra confirmed that the latest A(H1N1) victims are 12 years old female and 22 years old male health worker, all are residents of this city.

In a press release signed by Herrera, the 12 years old female victim started manifesting symptoms like fever, cough, and nasal congestion on July 12 while the 22 years male health worker also manifested symptoms like fever, cough and sore throat on July 9.

Both patients were treated at Capiz Emmanuel Hospital and were found positive of A(H1N1) flu virus by Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).

On the other hand, Robles said that the Department of Health released information on how to avoid being infected with A(H1N1) virus.

The city health officer added that in dengue fever, out of 78 victims, the worst affected is Roxas City with 44 victims in which there were 9 in Brgy Tiza and 8 in Brgy. Lawaan.

Robles blamed subdivisions which have a vacant lots as a breeding ground of mosquito which is a carrier of dengue virus.

She advised residents of Roxas City and neighboring towns to practice the 4 o?clock habit or the clean up of the environment to destroy the habitats of dengue-carrying mosquitoes.