Philippines 2012; Leptospirosis - 149 fatalities

[Ronan Kelly]

2011 thread is here; http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=165847


Eight die in outbreak in Philippine floods Save this story to read laterFrom: AFP
January 03, 2012 8:13PM

AN outbreak of a deadly water-borne disease has claimed at least eight lives in the flood-stricken areas of the southern Philippines.
The health department said that there were almost 300 cases of leptospirosis recorded so far in areas that were inundated by floods brought by tropical storm Washi last month.
"These people had a history of wading in flooded areas. Now government hospitals are full they are overloaded already," said regional health department director, Joselina Llacuna.

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Five people died from the illness in the southern port city of Cagayan de Oro, the department said while three others died in nearby Iligan City, said the city government spokesman Melvin Anggot.

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Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...#ixzz1iORhygBT

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Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/346965...thern-mindanao

Lepto outbreak declared in CdO
By NONOY E. LACSON and JENNY MANONGDO
January 4, 2012, 12:33pm

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines ? The Department of Health (DoH) in Northern Mindanao (Region 10) has declared a leptospirosis outbreak in the city and has placed government and non-government hospitals in Northern Mindanao on a ?Code Red? status.

DoH-10 Regional Director Dr. Jaime Bernadas issued the order after 200 charts and records of admissions and outpatient consultations were reviewed from the different hospitals in the city last Dec. 29-31.

Bernadas said 128 of these patients fitted the case definition of suspected leptospirosis, with ages ranging from one year to 75 years old.

Eighty-one percent of the patients were males or 113 out of 139, he said.

Bernadas said Barangay Macasandig here had the highest incidence registering 25 cases, followed by Balulang with 16 cases, Consolacion, Bulua and Puntod, nine cases each, Carmen and Iponan, eight cases each and Kauswagan and Barra, five cases each.

There were also five deaths with a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 3.9 percent.

The DoH here said there is an ongoing outbreak of leptospirosis in Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental, especially, in areas affected by the flash floods brought about by tropical storm ?Sendong? where more than a thousand people perished.

Majority of those affected with leptospirosis waded or swam in flood waters, which resulted in morbidities ranging from acute respiratory infections, injuries, fever and leptospirosis, among others, Bernadas said...

[Ronan Kelly]

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Death toll from rat fever reaches 15 in storm-stricken CDO, Iligan
(philstar.com) Updated January 05, 2012 07:00 PM

COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Xinhua) - Death toll from the rat fever outbreak that struck flood-hit areas in the southern Philippines reached 15 while hundreds were infected, local health officials said today.

Of the total deaths, eight were recorded in the flood affected city of Cagayan de Oro while seven in Iligan City. At least 314 people were infected and confined in hospitals.

Epidemiologist Dr. Joselito Retuya of Cagayan de Oro said they have vaccinated all residents staying in evacuation centers after those residents were displaced by the recent tropical storm Washi.

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http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=765107&publicationSubCategoryId=200

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de...reasing-199231

Leptospirosis cases in Oro decreasing
By Michael Andrew W. Yu
Friday, January 6, 2012

THE Department of Health (DOH) in Northern Mindanao said Friday cases of leptospirosis in Cagayan de Oro have decreased.

This came after several patients have already been discharged from the hospitals and only one admission was reported on Friday.

Dr. Jaime Bernadas, DOH-Northern Mindanao director, said only 139 patients are presently confined at the Northern Mindanao Medical Center, down from around 300 patients; while in Iligan City, there were 118 patients confined.

Bernadas said deaths due to leptospirosis still stood at eight in Cagayan de Oro and seven in Iligan City....

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/re...ed-iligan-city

Leptospirosis outbreak delared in Iligan City
abs-cbnNEWS.com
Posted at 01/06/2012 10:40 PM | Updated as of 01/06/2012 10:40 PM

MANILA, Philippines ? Iligan City has declared a leptospirosis outbreak after 9 people in the city have died from the disease.

Hospitals in the city are struggling to accommodate the number of patients.

?We were not prepared. In fact, in our hospital we have only I think 50 boxes of doxycycline,? said Dr. Anita Saloma of the Don Gregorio Lluch Memorial Hospital.

An outbreak was earlier declared in Cagayan de Oro, where 8 have died from leptospirosis...

[Ronan Kelly]

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OF LEPTOSPIROSIS
Prophylactic treatment given to prevent outbreak
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

The Department of Health is now giving free prophylaxis treatment in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental, to those who are at risk for leptospirosis after massive flooding on December 17 from tropical storm ?Sendong.?

Dr. Socrates Villamor, chief of the Provincial Epidemiology Surveillance Center of the DOH in Negros Oriental, said Tanjay City has the most number of suspected leptospirosis cases as of the last monitoring report, with 19 patients, including one fatality.

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http://www.visayandailystar.com/2012/January/09/negoriental.htm

[Ronan Kelly]

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?Leptos? outbreak declared
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW


The Department of Health in Region 7 has declared an outbreak of leptospirosis in Tanjay City, Negros Oriental, with cases noted in twobarangays of the city.

Dr. Socrates Villamor, head of the DOH?s Provincial Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit in Negros Oriental, said that as ofyesterday, 39 leptospirosis cases with one death had been recorded in the province.

Of the number 18, including the lone casualty, were admitted to various hospitals, while 21 were not admitted, Villamor said.

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http://www.visayandailystar.com/2012/January/13/negor5.htm

[Ronan Kelly]

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Storm hit the Philippines has been an outbreak killed 24 people
At 11:41 on January 16, 2012 China News

China news agency, Manila, January 16 (Reporter Zhang Ming) - 16 Philippine official notification, the southern Philippines, the tropical storm "Eagle," hit Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities epidemic outbreak of leptospirosis, at least 377 people infected with leptospirosis, 24 of whom died.
Philippine National Disaster Reduction Commission said 16, 377 have been found in leptospirosis cases, 258 were from Cagayan de Oro City, where eight people were killed; another 119 cases from Iligan City, in which 16 people died .
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http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.qq.com%2Fa%2F20120116%2F001054.htm+&tl=en&sl=zh

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Re: Philippines 2012; Leptospirosis - 24 fatalities

Leptospirosis claims 23 lives in northern Mindanao

LEPTOSPIROSIS claimed 23 lives as an aftermath of Tropical Storm Sendong in several cities and towns in northern part of Mindanao.

Undersecretary Benito Ramos, executive director of National Disaster Risk-Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), said among the problems encountered in Sendong-affected areas are health issues, including the rising number of leptospirosis cases.

As of Tuesday, 616 cases of leptospirosis have been recorded in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities. The Department of Health (DOH) said leptospirosis is caused by a bacterium called Leptospira interrogans.

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[Ronan Kelly]

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DOH notes 616 suspected leptospirosis cases in region 10
By Rutchie C. Aguhob
Tuesday 31st of January 2012
OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, Jan. 31 (PIA) ? A total of 616 suspected Leptospirosis cases have been recorded in region 10 as of Jan. 13, this year.


Reports reaching the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) of region 10 from the Health Cluster of the Post Sendong Operations, show that the municipalities/cities with the most suspected cases were Cagayan de Oro City, Iligan City and the municipalities of Opol, Tagoloan and Villanueva, all of Misamis Oriental.


Cagayan de Oro City has 411 suspected leptospirosis cases with 11 deaths and the top 10 barangays where these cases were reported are as follows:


Balulang, 74, Macasandig, 58, Carmen, 48, Iponan, 35, Consolacion, 30, Kauswagan, 26, Bulua, 23, Puntod, 15, Poblacion Barangy No. 15, 11 and Nazareth, 10.


Iligan City has 163 suspected cases with seven deaths and the top 10 barangays where these cases were reported are:

Hinaplanon, 41, Poblacion, 20, Tambacan, 16, Mahayhay, 14, Santiago, 12, Tubod, 12, Bag-ong Silang, 9, Palao, 9, Ubaldo Laya, 9, and San Miguel, 3.


Opol town in Misamis Oriental also noted 33 suspected leptospirosis cases with two deaths and the barangays where these cases were reported are: Barra, 26, Igpit, 5, and Bonbon and Carmen, one each.


Tagoloan town, Mis. Or. noted six suspected leptospirosis cases with one death while Villanueva town, also of Mis. Or. reported three suspected leptospirosis cases but no deaths.


Meanwhile, Dr. Jaime Bernadas, Regional Director of the Department of Health (DOH) region 10, and Head of the Health Cluster of the Post Sendong Operations, said the leptospirosis immunization/prophylaxis to Sendong victims continues.


As of Jan. 23 this year, a total of 5,976 Doxycycline tablets were given to the Sendong victims.


Dr. David Mendoza, Head of the DOH-10 Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, also said a total of 12,955 tetanus toxoid, 1,051 OPV, 1,857 MV/AMV and 1,066 Vitamin A tablets were given to the victims. (PIA-10 Mis. Occ.)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?searchID=leptospirosis&article=1451327990061

[Ronan Kelly]

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?Lepto? cases triple to 1,728
Posted by Online on Jul 5th, 2012
Manila, Philippines ? The Department of Health (DOH) has warned the public against leptospirosis as it reported a total of 1,728 cases from Jan. 1 to May 26 this year, up by 211.35 percent from 555 cases during the same period last year.

The DOH also reported 75 leptospirosis deaths during the period as against the 40 recorded in 2011.
According to the DOH, 50 percent or 868 cases were from Region 10, versus seven in 2011; and 19.3 percent or 6,333 cases in Region 6, against 143 last year.
In the National Capital Region (NCR), 64 cases were reported ? 22 in Manila, 20 in Quezon City and a few number of cases in other cities.
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http://www.tempo.com.ph/2012/lepto-cases-triple-to-1728/

[Ronan Kelly]

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Leptospirosis cases in Iloilo climb to 259

ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 07/19/2012 7:54 PM | Updated as of 07/19/2012 7:54 PM


MANILA, Philippines ? Cases of the water-borne disease leptospirosis in Iloilo have reached 259 from January to July this year, health officials said.

Twelve people in the region have died from the disease.
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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/07/19/12/leptospirosis-cases-iloilo-climb-259

[Ronan Kelly]

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DOH raises alarm on leptospirosis cases

ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 08/10/2012 6:23 PM | Updated as of 08/10/2012 6:23 PM


MANILA, Philippines ? The Department of Health (DOH) is on alert for a possible surge in Leptospirosis cases following excessive flooding this week.

As of July 28, there are 2,213 recorded cases of Leptospirosis, 87% higher than the cases in the same period last year.
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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/08/10/12/doh-raises-alarm-leptospirosis-cases

97 dead from leptospirosis; alert raised

Posted at 08/02/2012 11:18 PM




The Department of Health has raised an alert on leptospirosis, as more people deal with floods caused by Typhoon Gener. Sol Aragones tells us, 97 people have already died from the disease this year and the DOH fears that number will rise soon.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/video/nation/metro-manila/08/02/12/97-dead-leptospirosis-alert-raised

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Philippines 2012; Leptospirosis - 97 fatalities

Leptos death toll now 129
Posted by Online on Sep 2nd, 2012 //

Philippines ? The Department of Health (DoH) revealed yesterday that leptospirosis cases have reached a total of 2,471 and 129 deaths from January 1 to August 18.

The disease surveillance report of the DoH covering the period of August 12 to 18 said the figure is 62.35 percent higher than last year?s figures where only 1,522 cases were recorded.

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Read more http://www.tempo.com.ph/2012/leptos-death-toll-now-129/

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/263426/...sis-in-dagupan

No need to declare outbreak of leptospirosis in Dagupan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
9:46 pm | Monday, September 3rd, 2012

DAGUPAN CITY? The number of leptospirosis deaths here in a month may be unusually high, but a health official sees no need to declare an outbreak.

Dr. Leonard Carbonell, city health officer, said 24 leptospirosis cases were recorded at the peak of the disease in the third week of August. Seven of them have died...