MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) has recorded 1,709 confirmed cases of Influenza A(H1N1) in the country as of June 27, but the good news is that 1,485 of them are now free of the virus.
“The remaining 224 or 14 percent are still under treatment at present, most of them under home management,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in a statement yesterday.
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MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday underscored the need to prepare for a second wave of the Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic even if the virus presently appears to be mild in nature.
Dr. Lyndon Leesuy, program manager of the DOH for emerging and re-emerging diseases, said that historically, all pandemics have had second waves that were deadlier.
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MANILA, Philippines – The country’s total count for Influenza A(H1N1) infections rose to 861 yesterday after 134 new cases were reported, the Department of Health (DOH) said.
Twenty-five children in Nasugbu, Batangas have tested positive for the virus. But Health Secretary Francisco Duque III assured the public that all of the new cases are “mild” and they “are responding positively to treatment.”
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MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) emphasized the “mild nature” of Influenza A(H1N1), saying that while the number of cases rose to 727 as of yesterday, 536 of the patients have already recovered.
The World Health Organization (WHO) website showed that as of June 24, the Philippines ranked second in Southeast Asia for confirmed A(H1N1) cases, following Thailand which had 774 cases.
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MANILA, Philippines – Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Thursday said his department will coordinate with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to bring down prices of Tamiflu medicines to make them more affordable to people at "high risk" for Influenza A(H1N1).
GMANews.TV reported yesterday that the prices of flu drugs and vaccinations had tripled in some places, leading to charges of
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MANILA, Philippines – The A(H1N1) contagion forced the suspension of classes in more schools yesterday even as education officials told school authorities to find ways to make up for the disruption.
In Metro Manila, the schools that moved to suspend classes for almost two weeks included the Poveda Learning Center at Ortigas Center in Pasig City and the Ateneo de Manila grade school in Quezon City. Classes in th
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MANILA, Philippines – Prices of flu drugs and vaccine have surged up to three times their normal prices, aggravating the Philippines’ Influenza A(H1N1) crisis as demand from health-conscious buyers is making the product scarce and increasingly expensive.
The Philippines, which is lagging behind other countries in the race for securing ample supplies of anti-swine flu vaccine, has listed 604 confirmed cases and
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MANILA, Philippines – The race for the still unavailable vaccine against Influenza A(H1N1) virus is on. Affluent countries have made advanced orders for the sought-after vaccine, but the Philippines appears to be dilly-dallying, even after the death of a 49-year-old Filipina who became the first A(H1N1)-related fatality in Asia.
The first A(H1N1)-related fatality in the country and in Asia turned out to be a
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A 49-year-old Filipino woman infected with Influenza A(H1N1) has died, the first fatality related to the new flu strain in the Philippines and Asia, a health official said Monday. Her death, officially from heart failure, has prompted health officials to give the most attention to sickly people who were hit by the flu.
In a press conference in Malacañang, Dr. Yolanda Oliveros, director for the National Center fo
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MANILA – Thirty-three new cases of influenza A (H1N1) were confirmed by the Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday bringing the country’s total number of victims of the virus to 344, as the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts the virus will be active for three more months.
Of the new H1N1 patients, 24 are male and 9 are female, and 31 are Filipino nationals, Health Undersecretary Mario Villaverde
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