The Quezon City government has recorded 143 measles cases from Jan. 1 to April 16, prompting health authorities to renew their call for stronger protection for infants and sustained vaccination amid continued transmission in the city. Data from the Quezon City Epidemiology and Surveillance...
Measles-rubella (MR) cases in the country increased by 45 percent, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Tuesday, April 7. In a statement, the DOH said it recorded 1,627 MR cases from Jan. 4 to March 21, 2026, higher than the 1,121 cases logged during the same period last year. “This is 45...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is calling on companies to excuse employees bringing their children for measles-rubella shots and to host vaccination activities at work to safeguard children under five. Labor Advisory No. 02-2026, issued on Feb. 9, urged firms to support the...
More than one million children have already been vaccinated in the first week of the “Ligtas Tigdas” vaccination campaign in Mindanao, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday, Jan. 24. The figure accounts for more than a third of the target population for Phase 1 of the nationwide...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC), with support from international humanitarian and health partners, is backing the government-led Ligtas Tigdas: Measles-Rubella Supplemental Immunization Activity (MR-SIA)—a nationwide campaign aimed at protecting millions of Filipino children from measles and...
Mindanao accounted for 2,172 measles cases, or 42 percent of the national total, from Jan. 1, 2025 to Jan. 3, 2026, prompting the Department of Health (DOH) to launch Phase 1 of the “Ligtas Tigdas” or Measles-Rubella Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MR-SIA) in the region on Monday,...
Measles and rubella cases in the country climbed by 32 percent over the past year, with more than 5,000 infections recorded, 73 percent of whom were unvaccinated, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Friday, Jan. 16. DOH spokesperson Assistant Secretary Albert Domingo said 5,159 cases were...
Mayor Abby Binay Nearly 10,000 children, nine to 59 months old, from all barangays in Makati City are being targeted for vaccination against measles in one month as part of the national government's nationwide measles catch-up vaccination campaign that started on March 17, Makati City Mayor...
Malacañang has bared the government's plans to address the rising number of measles cases and the worsening heat index in the country, including an ongoing vaccination program and establishing cooling centers. (Photos: Mark Balmores and Santi San Juan/MANILA BULLETIN) Communications...
CLINICAL MATTERS In the year 2000, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) declared that measles in the US had been eliminated. This meant that there was no continuous spread of measles in that country for more than twelve months. Sporadic cases from imported infections...
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A child who wasn't vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in rural West Texas, state officials said Wednesday, the first U.S. death from the highly contagious — but preventable — respiratory disease since 2015. The school-aged child had been hospitalized...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, June 20, reported a decrease in pertussis and measles-rubella cases in the Philippines. Photo from AP From May 12 to 25, the health department recorded 187 pertussis cases, marking a 38 percent decrease from the 301 cases reported from April 28 to May 11....
