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Cebu City, Philippines – Cebu City Councilor Mary Anne Delos Santos, deputy mayor on health, attributes the increase of measles cases to the scare of the dengvaxia vaccine. Delos Santos said that the fear of vaccination became…
Cebu City, Philippines – The Cebu Provincial Health Office (PHO) is recommending to the members of the Provincial Board (PB) the use of the province’s funds to purchase measles vaccines amid an outbreak in Central Visayas. Dr.…
MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a vigorous campaign to promote the complete immunization for children after the Health department declared a measles outbreak in Metro Manila. Duterte’s order was made during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting in Malacañang,…
CEBU CITY, Philippines–At least 40 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) were confirmed to have measles, Provincial Health Office chief Rene Catan said on Thursday. Catan, in a phone interview on Thursday afternoon,…
BY the end of October to November this year, the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) will conduct a mass immunization of children, especially infants, to curb a sudden rise in measles cases in the region.…
The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) has expressed alarm over the sudden increase of measles cases in the region this year. Ruff Vincent Valdevieso, expanded immunization program coordinator of DOH-7, said that they have recorded…
A three-month-old baby girl in Tuburan town, believed to afflicted with measles died last March 28. Provincial Health Office (PHO) Head Dr. Rene Catan said the baby was from Barangay Putat and reportedly showed symptoms of measles…
Health authorities confirmed two cases and 18 suspected cases of measles in nine areas in Cebu province. Dr. Shelbay Blanco, Health Emergency Management Staff (HEMS) coordinator of the Department of Health (DOH-7) regional office said they are…
ABOUT 12 out of 21 cases of measles had already been confirmed in Negros Oriental a week after the Department of Health (DOH-7) regional office declared a measles outbreak in the province. DOH regional director Jaime Bernadas…
LOOKING back in review, there were some fascinating news in medicine this past year, a few of them controversial, especially in infectious diseases and cancer screening and prevention. E-cigarettes are more dangerous A study, published in the…
Cases of measles in Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) is already under control according to the Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (RESU-7). RESU 7 Chief Reynan Cimafranca said that for the past two days, the number…
Inmate Rolly Recoylo had to walk sideways from his bed across the space left between the wall and a row of wooden beds for an interview with Cebu Daily News. “We were free to roam around in…
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