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Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III on Tuesday confirmed a decline in the incidence of dengue in the province in Rizal.
"Cases are now declining especially in Morong. Only four confirmed (dengue patients) are confined at the hospital," he told the Philippines News Agency in a telephone interview.
Over the weekend, the province saw heavy clustering of cases, prompting local health officials to declare an outbreak.
Dozens of residents trooped to the provinces' health clinics and hospitals for suspecting having contracted the disease.
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Thailand helps RP fight dengue spread
PDI
09/21/2006
DESPITE the uncertain security situation in Bangkok because of the recent coup d’etat, Thailand has extended assistance to the Philippines to stop the spread of dengue fever.
According to Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, Thailand’s Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Services has, through the World Health Organization, agreed to provide the country with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing kits which detect dengue faster.
The WHO, which has been helping the health department in the fight against dengue, has also ordered extra supplies of larvicide and will be training doctors in all regions in dengue management.
It has promised to help the DoH in implementing a community mobilization program against dengue and will fund the printing of 10,000 copies of dengue information materials.
Results from PCR testing can be obtained in just a few minutes, in contrast to the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELIZA) technology now being used by the DoH whose results may be obtained only after several weeks.
Duque, however, noted that PCR works best only during the early states of the disease, and even if it can detect new strains, it cannot treat dengue.
PCR and ELIZA act only as confirmatory tests for dengue, he stressed.
Dr. Jean Marc Olive, the WHO country representative, said WHO has also ordered supplies of Abate, a larvicide that can be added to drinking water to kill off mosquito larvae or wrigglers.
Dengue strikes Jinggoy’s son
Manila Bulletin
Dengue chooses no one, be they are rich or poor.
The latest of the dengue-carrying mosquitoes is Joseph Luis Manuel Ejercito, the 13-year-old son of opposition Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada.
Speaking to Senate reporters, Estrada said he believed that his son contracted dengue from his school.
Estrada said he had already written the principal of the said school located near a creek in San Juan, Metro Manila.
The senator’s son has been taken to the Cardinal Santos hospital where he is undergoing treatment. Estrada said it took them several days to determine that the cause of his son’s fever that has gone up and down has been caused by dengue-carrying mosquitoes in his school.
The Department of Education (DepEd) yesterday reiterated its call to all school authorities to remain vigilant against the spread of the disease.
"The schools must really be on their guard especially this time when dengue fever cases and deaths continued to balloon. Clean-up activities must be conducted regularly particularly in areas where there are possible breeding grounds for the mosquito vector," DepEd Health and Nutrition Director Dr. Thelma Santos said.
Santos added that the school heads are expected to monitor their students’ condition especially when they complain of cough and fever to ensure they are not hauling with them the dengue virus.
The DepEd reaffirm its commitment to the prevention and control of diseases particularly dengue in all schools across the country. A memorandum order re-issued by Education Secretary Jesli Lapus calls for the close collaboration of school officials with their Parent-Teacher-Community Associations (PTCAs), Local Government Units (LGUs) and Municipal Health Offices.
The DepEd maintains that fumigation or fogging operation is not an effective approach in killing the mosquito vector.
Meanwhile, Dr. Eric Tayag, chief of the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) of the Department of Health, yesterday admitted that 81 percent of dengue cases in the country remain unreported and that there is a very high likelihood that more Filipinos have suffered from the disease without even knowing it.
"Some dengue cases are asymptomatic," Tayag said. "This means that sometimes, patients do not manifest all the signs of dengue such as mosquito bites, skin rashes and bleeding. Rather, they manifest signs of regular fever, which goes away after one day of treatment."
Tayag said that probabililty is that out of 100 sick patients, only 19 have been recorded, with 81 remaining unreported.
"As of now, we have 16,000 cases, but there may have been hundreds of thousands infected in the last three years who never went to the hospital or just never noticed that they had the disease," Tayag said.
According to Tayag, many people do not notice mosquitoes breeding inside the household in the most unlikely places. He said mosquito larvae can remain dormant for a long time hatch upon the accumulation of water. He added that the most common breeding grounds are water containers, flower vases — even the edges of bathroom tiles
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