Philippines: MERS, HIV and dengue fever updates
Three recent stories from the news, Outbreak News Today, “Your source for all the news about worms and germs”, provides coverage of three important public health stories from the Philippine archipelago: MERS, HIV and dengue fever.
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2nd imported case of MERS
The Philippines Department of Health announced the confirmation of an imported Middle East RespiratorySyndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in a foreign national on July 4 prompting the mobilization of the MERS “Task Force”.
On Saturday, a Middle Eastern man tested positive for the novel coronavirusat the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM). He is currently monitored, stable and very cooperative. One of the patient’s close contacts has developed a cough and confirmation testing is currently in progress. ….Read more
May sees most HIV cases in 30 months
The Philippines is one of only a handful of countries that continue to see an increase in HIV cases and this past May, a whopping 748 cases were reported. This is the most cases reported on the archipelago in the past two and one-half years.
This is a more than 50 percent increase in cases compared to the same period last year….Read more
Dengue cases slightly higher in 2015
From 1 January to 30 May 2015, there were 28,600 cases of dengue, including 86 deaths, reported on the archipelago. This is 6.33% higher compared with the same reporting period in 2014 (26,897).
In all of 2014, the Philippines reported 113,485 cases. This was a 45% decrease from 2013 when more than 200,000 dengue cases were seen….Read more
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