The San Juan City local government conducted on Monday, Aug. 15, a misting and clean-up drive as part of the city's intensified campaign against dengue. San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora led the program together with other city government officials in Barangay Corazon de Jesus. Zamora said San...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Health (DOH) has logged 50 dengue fatalities in Western Visayas from January to July this year. Capiz has logged its first dengue death, the DOH-Region 6 Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (RESU) said in an August 11 report. Four new deaths from...
Releasing frogs and fishes in swamps and stagnant water to eliminate dengue-carrying mosquitoes can disrupt the ecological balance of the surrounding environment, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Biodiversity Management Bureau (DENR-BMB) warned the public on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Cane...
THE Aedes Aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue. The Department of Health (DOH) said that the number of dengue cases in the Philippines is now starting to peak. “As we are seeing right now, mukhang nagpi-peak na tayo ngayon. Nag start nitong rainy season talaga June, July, August usually...
The Department of Health (DOH) has recorded a total of 92,343 dengue cases since January, it said on Monday Aug. 8. THE Aedes Aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue. This was from January 1 to July 23. According to DOH, cases this year are 118 percent higher compared to the reported cases during...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Monday, August 8, called on city residents to get tested for dengue if they are experiencing any symptoms of the disease. “We are seeing a rise in cases in our city, not just of Covid but also of dengue so we are encouraging our residents to get tested so they...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Zamboanga City Health Office continued its appeal to residents to maintain cleanliness and practice the 4S strategy against dengue that has claimed more than 20 lives already. Zamboanga City Health Office personnel conduct fogging activities due to the soaring number of...
The successful rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in the country, which included children, should be reason enough for the Philippine government to take another look at the controversial dengue fever vaccine, Dengvaxia. (MANILA BULLETIN, PNA) Thus, said Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo, who recently...
THE Aedes Aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue. Hospitals have sufficient bed capacity to manage dengue patients amid the rising number of cases in the country, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said. "Sa ngayon, wala kaming nakukuhang report na ang ating mga kama sa hospital ay...
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – This city has been placed under a state of calamity due to the increasing number of dengue cases. The City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council led by Mayor Darwin Estrañero made the declaration on Wednesday, August 3. Three patients here had already died...
17DENGUE The Department of Health (DOH) said that the number of dengue cases in the country has already reached more than 82,000 since the start of this year. DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said that a total of 82,597 dengue cases were recorded from Jan. 1 to July 16. "Cases this year...
Whatever happened to the Department of Health's (DOH) anti-dengue programs? (Lucas Van Oort/ Unsplash) That's what Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo wants to find out via House probe as he aired grave concern over the current surge in dengue fever cases in the country. “Every day that passes...
