Pneumonia no. 1 killer last year
By Linette Ramos Cantalejo and Oscar C. Pineda
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
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Records of the Cebu City Health Department showed that the number of pneumonia cases last year increased by 165 percent, from only 1,378 in 2012 to 3,658 in 2013.
The number of deaths caused by pneumonia also rose from 16 in 2012 to 64 deaths last
year, or an increase of 300 percent.
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Among the communicable diseases monitored by the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (Cesu), diarrhea had the second highest number of deaths in 2013 with 23,
followed by meningitis with six deaths and dengue fever with five deaths.
Cesu?s records showed a significant drop in the number of dengue cases in 2013, when 2,590 dengue cases were reported, down from 4,057 cases and 13 deaths in 2012.
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By Linette Ramos Cantalejo and Oscar C. Pineda
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
...
Records of the Cebu City Health Department showed that the number of pneumonia cases last year increased by 165 percent, from only 1,378 in 2012 to 3,658 in 2013.
The number of deaths caused by pneumonia also rose from 16 in 2012 to 64 deaths last
year, or an increase of 300 percent.
...
Among the communicable diseases monitored by the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (Cesu), diarrhea had the second highest number of deaths in 2013 with 23,
followed by meningitis with six deaths and dengue fever with five deaths.
Cesu?s records showed a significant drop in the number of dengue cases in 2013, when 2,590 dengue cases were reported, down from 4,057 cases and 13 deaths in 2012.
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