Philippines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,688 - 9 deaths

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5 Mindoro students infected with H1N1 virus
By Madonna Virola
Inquirer Southern Luzon
First Posted 14:52:00 07/18/2009

Filed Under: Swine Flu, Diseases, Health, Epidemic and Plague

CALAPAN CITY, Philippines?Five students of a public school here were confirmed to have been infected with the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, Mayor Paulino Salvador Leachon said Friday afternoon.

Despite the massive campaign against H1N1 here, five students of Managpi Elementary School in Barangay Managpi, more than 10 kilometers from the city center, were found positive for the virus on Friday morning, Leachon said.

On Wednesday, upon the order of Leachon, throat swab was done on five elementary pupils from five sitios in Barangay Managpi, after 65 to 100 of its 132 students were reported to have fever, Dr. Basilisa Llanto, city health officer, told the Inquirer.

"To me, that was extraordinary and so I exercised my discretion under the local government code to promote public welfare as there may be outbreak of A(H1N1)," Leachon said.

Leachon requested the city schools superintendent to suspend classes last Wednesday, which will be extended for another 10 days after five students were found to be positive for swine flu.

"The results were relayed by (Department of Health) regional director Dr. Gloria Balboa to Mayor Leachon before lunch yesterday," said Llanto.

The city was faced with the task of breaking the news to the community without causing panic, Llanto said.

She conducted a lecture on H1N1 at the school which was attended by teachers, parents and barangay officials.

"I had to prepare them by saying at the end of my lecture that pupils tested for A(H1N1) were found positive," said Llanto.

She cited "social distancing, proper hand washing, teacher's reporting on even suspected cases of A(H1N1)," among the preventive measures.

To encourage people to report suspected cases of the virus, Leachon pledged medical assistance and gave Llanto's mobile number as hotline (0915-4166128).

Dr. Normando Legaspi, director of the Oriental Mindoro Provincial Hospital, also agreed to be the referral hospital.

Meanwhile, cases of fever were also reported among some children at the Adriatico Memorial Elementary School and Jose Leido Jr. Memorial National High School in the city.

 

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Suspected A/H1N1 flu outbreak reported in Philippine jails

2009-07-20 11:43:22

MANILA, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Over 100 inmates in two Philippine jails were quarantined for suspected A/H1N1 influenza, raising fears that an outbreak might occur among the confined population, local media reported Monday.

More than 60 inmates have developed flu-like symptoms in the central Philippines' Mandaue city jail, where 100 inmates were placed under observation, according to the report of local Tv network GMA News.

In northern Bulacan provincial jail, ten inmates were quarantined after showing sings of A/H1N1 influenza, the report said.

The suspected outbreak has prompted jail officials to shorten families' visit hours and to conduct thermal scanning on visitors before they enter the jail.

The Philippines is among the worst-hit by the A/H1N1 influenza in Southeast Asia as the authorities confirmed 2,688 cases by July9, with four deaths. However, 95 percent of the patients have recovered, health officials said.

 

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Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/07/29/09/three-ah1n1-patients-die-baguio

Three A(H1N1) patients die in Baguio
abs-cbnNEWS.com | 07/29/2009 5:16 PM


Three more Baguio City residents, including a baby, infected with influenza A(H1N1) have died, bringing the total of reported deaths in the country to 9.

Dr. Myrna Cabotaje, director of the Department of Health's office in the Cordillera Autonomous Region, said the three fatalities were a 9-day-old baby, a 17-year-old student and a 9-year-old child.

Cabotaje said the baby died Saturday followed by the student and the 9-year-old victim on Tuesday.

The regional health chief said the three victims were all infected with A(H1N1), but clarified that they have yet to determine if the causes of death are related to the disease.

On July 22, a 25-year-old woman also infected with A(H1N1) died after giving birth to twin girls at the Saint Louis University Hospital.

The DOH has declared a low-level community outbreak of the virus in the city, one of the country's famous tourist destinations.

Cabotaje said that there are already 177 confirmed A(H1N1) cases in the region, 115 of which were recorded in Baguio City.

The flu deaths in Baguio City brought the number of reported flu-related deaths in the country to 9.

The first five deaths include a House of Representatives employee, a 19-year-old with asthma, a 74-year-old with emphysema, a public school teacher in Muntinlupa City and an American teacher in Tacloban City. With a report from Butch Mendizabal, ABS-CBN Baguio
as of 07/29/2009 5:16 PM

 

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Source: http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2009/07/philippines-teacher-is-fourth-h1n1-death.html

July 17, 2009
Philippines: Teacher is fourth H1N1 death

Via the Manila Times: Teacher in Muntinlupa City 4th to die from killer flu in RP. Excerpt:

A 42-year-old female teacher infected with Influenza A(H1N1) virus died in Muntinlupa City (Metro Manila), the fourth death in the country related to the novel virus, a local health official reported Friday.

City Health Officer Dr. Edilinda Patac said that the public school teacher, who died on Wednesday at the Ospital ng Muntinlupa, was hospitalized after she vomited and had diarrhea and fever. The death of the teacher was confirmed on Thursday.

Dr. Patac said that she had talked with the school principal about the details of the teacher?s condition before her death. She added that city health personnel would disinfect the entire school this weekend to prevent the spread of the A(H1N1) virus, which causes swine flu.

The city health officer did not divulge the school where the victim was teaching. The school, she said, would not be shut down and classes would resume on Monday.

Dr. Patac said that all people who had contact with the victim would be observed for symptoms of A(H1N1) virus infection. As a precautionary measure, she added, oseltamivir would be immediately given to high-risk people who had been exposed to the teacher.

 

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Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/167966/Leyte-reports-RPs-5th-A(H1N1)-related-death

Leyte reports RP's 5th A(H1N1)-related death
MARK MERUE?AS, GMANews.TV
07/22/2009 | 03:15 PM

A 56-year-old female American school employee in Leyte who was found positive for Influenza A(H1N1) virus died on Tuesday, but a local health official said the dreaded disease had little to do with her death.

Dr. Minerva Molon, assistant regional health director for Eastern Visayas, said the victim worked in the administration department of a private international school in Tacloban City.

In an interview with GMANews.TV, Molon said the patient developed a fever on July 8, and that five days later, her mouth swab sample confirmed she contracted the virus.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has placed the worldwide A(H1N1) death toll at over 700.

Molon said after learning the result of the mouth swab, the woman and her husband went into quarantine and started taking anti-viral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu). They were given a clean bill of health after days of medication.

?But days later, the woman developed tightness of the chest and was confined at the hospital," Molon said.

The woman, who died of myocardial infarction or commonly known as a heart attack, was also found to be suffering from a pre-existing medical condition ? concomitant hyperthyroidism.

?As per our assessment, we could not possibly relate her death to the virus because she has already gone out of quarantine. Her medication was already finished," Molon said.

?We would like to stop rumors that this is due to A(H1N1) because people are just getting scared," she added.

In Manila, the Department of Health (DOH) said the total number of A(H1N1)-related deaths in the country remains at three pending confirmation of the two latest fatalities.

Aside from the Leyte case, the Muntinlupa City government last week reported the death of 43-year-old public school teacher infected by the virus.

But the DOH could not immediately confirm if the cases in Muntinlupa and Leyte could be categorized as A(H1N1)?related deaths.

?Matagal kasi ang consolidation and validation of the veracity of the reports coming to us, kaya hindi namin kaagad masabi. So far, tatlo pa rin ang tally namin," Dr. Arnel Rivera, chief of the DOH Response Division, told GMANews.TV.

(The consolidation and verification process of the reports take a long time so we could not immediately say if it should be connected with the A(H1N1) flu virus.)

Rivera said some ?technical problems" in the validation process, carried out by the agency?s epidemiology division, could have led to the delay of the reporting. He said the DOH is carefully verifying reports that they receive to prevent giving wrong information to media.

The DOH has not yet released any update on A(H1N1) since July 9. In its last update, the agency has so far confirmed 2,668 A(H1N1) cases since it started testing mouth swabs last May 1.

Confirmed cases in the Philippines have a 95 percent recovery rate ? with 2,543 of the infected patients getting well. The DOH has earlier stopped issuing its regular A(H1N1) updates after shifting from containment to mitigation. - GMANews.TV

 

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Source: http://ikuwaderno.com/woman-with-ah1n1-dies-after-giving-birth-to-twins.html

Woman with A(H1N1) dies after giving birth to twins

* Saturday, July 25, 2009, 16:08

A 25-year-old woman infected with influenza A(H1N1) died after giving birth to twin girls in a Baguio City hospital.
Dr. Servando Liban II, medical director of the Saint Louis University (SLU) Hospital, said the woman was brought to them on Wednesday after manifesting flu-like symptoms.
Liban said the woman was brought to the hospital?s surgical intensive care unit to undergo caesarean operation and gave birth to premature twin girls the next day.
She said the woman was infected with A(H1N1), but doctors have yet to determine the cause of her death.
The doctor said throat swab samples have been taken from the twins.
?We are still waiting for the result,? Liban told ABS-CBN Baguio.
Health officials said there are a total of 95confirmed cases of A(H1N1) in Baguio City, where a low-level community outbreak has been declared.
The woman was the 6th A(H1N1) patient to have died in the Philippines.

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