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  • #16
    Re: Phillipines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 445

    Philippines reports 1st swine flu-related death

    By TERESA CEROJANO –

    MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines confirmed Monday its first swine flu-related death — a 49-year-old woman who died from congestive heart failure but who also tested positive for the H1N1 virus.

    The fatality is the second in the Asia-Pacific region related to swine flu, following the death of a man in Australia on Friday.

    Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said the woman's chronic heart disease was aggravated by severe pneumonia. She started to have flu-like symptoms such as dry cough, fever, chills and difficulty breathing two days before her death on June 19.

    A throat swab revealed she was also infected with the swine flu virus.
    Duque said post-autopsy findings disclose that the death was caused by heart failure "aggravated by severe pneumonia either bacterial, viral or both."
    Given the available information, health authorities cannot conclude that the death is due to H1N1. In other countries that have reported swine flu deaths, the majority have had pre-existing conditions, he added.

    Duque said the Philippines has 17 more confirmed swine flu cases, bringing the total to 445 — though 84 percent of the total cases have already recovered.
    Australian authorities on Sunday listed a 26-year-old Aboriginal man who died in the southern city of Adelaide on Friday as a "suspected" swine flu death. Although the man had tested positive for the virus, authorities doubt it killed him because he also had pre-existing chronic diseases.

    ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
    Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

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    • #17
      Re: Phillipines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 727

      A/H1N1 flu cases climb to 727 in Philippines

      www.chinaview.cn 2009-06-25

      MANILA, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Philippine health authorities confirmed 123 more Influenza A/H1N1 cases on Thursday, bringing the total to 727 in the country.

      The newly-found cases, all mild in nature, involved 120 Filipinos and three foreigners, Health Secretary Francisco Duque told reporters. Twenty-one of the patients had a history of travel to a country affected with the novel virus.

      Meanwhile, the health chief reported that 85 more A/H1N1 patients have fully recovered. This new number brought the total count of fully-recovered cases to 536 or 74 percent of the total sum of confirmed cases since May 21.

      Duque said there is no need to panic although the cases kept rising.

      "Most can fight off this novel virus even without medications or hospitalization. If you have mild flu-like symptoms but you do not have any pre-existing medical condition then there is no reason to be alarmed. Just stay home and take plenty of fluids, vitamins and bed rest," Duque told the public.

      However, he advised "high-risk groups" to take the disease seriously.

      "We want to make it clear that high-risk groups, once they have the flu symptoms, should immediately go to their doctor," Duque said, referring to patients with uncontrolled diabetes and asthma, those with chronic liver and kidney disease, the people suffering from HIV/AIDs and TB, and pregnant women and the very young and the elderly.

      "They should not wait for their symptoms to worsen because the yare prone to many infections other than the novel virus such as our seasonal flu strains," he added.

      ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
      Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

      ~~~~ Twitter:@GertvanderHoek ~~~ GertvanderHoek@gmail.com ~~~

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      • #18
        Re: Phillipines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 861

        Philippines has 134 new A (H1N1) cases

        abs-cbnNEWS.com | 06/26/2009

        Manila - The Department of Health on Friday reported another big batch of patients who tested positive for influenza A (H1N1) virus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Philippines to 861.

        Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said 134 more people have tested positive for A( H1N1) virus in the last 24 hours.

        Duque said that of the 861 total cases, 634 or 74 percent have fully recovered since the first confirmed case in the Philippines was reported in May 21. One patient, a woman employee of the House of Representatives, had died after getting infected by the virus.

        ?The number of fully recovered patients is the same as the previous update because the present reported cases are still getting treatment and recuperating either in hospitals or their homes,? Duque said in a statement.

        He said the additional 134 cases include 118 Filipinos and 16 foreigners. He added that only 20 of the new cases have a history of travel to a country with confirmed A (H1N1) infection.

        as of 06/26/2009

        ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
        Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

        ~~~~ Twitter:@GertvanderHoek ~~~ GertvanderHoek@gmail.com ~~~

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        • #19
          Re: Phillipines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 1,709 - 1 death

          RP's H1N1 flu cases balloon to 1,709

          abs-cbnNEWS.com | 07/01/2009


          MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday said it is stepping up its mitigation efforts against influenza A (H1N1), as the number of cases in the country rose to 1,709 from 861 last Friday.

          In its July 1 update, the DOH said the Philippines had a total of 1,709 cases of influenza A (H1N1) since May 1, but the DOH said 86 percent or 1,485 patients have already recovered from the illness.

          The remaining 224 patients (14 percent of total) are still under treatment, most of them under home management, the DOH said.

          Only one A (H1N1)-related death has been recorded so far.

          The DOH is also monitoring the case of a five-month-old patient, the youngest victim of the virus so far.

          "All cases exhibited mild symptoms with the most common as fever, cough, and nasal congestion," Duque said.

          "The ages of cases range from 5 months to 79 years old, with 18 years old as median age. Most of them belonged to the 10-19 years age group (831 cases). Majority of the cases were male (894 cases)," Duque described.

          Duque disclosed that of the 1,709 reported cases, 1,568 (92 percent) were Filipinos; the rest were American (with 17), Japanese (8), Chinese (4), Korean (3), German (2), and one each from Australia, Canada, India, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Sweden, Thailand, and Turkey.

          "Two hundred eighty-five had history of travel to a country which has reported A (H1N1) cases. Most came from the USA, China, Japan and Singapore," Duque noted.

          Most of the cases come from the National Capital Region, Regions IV-A, III, and VIII.

          Globally, as of June 29, the World Health Organization has recorded a total of 70,893 cases, with 311 deaths, from 109 reporting countries.

          Mitigation efforts

          Health Secretary Francisco Duque said the DOH is stepping up its efforts against the disease as they anticipate more cases in the coming months.

          "As we anticipate more cases in the coming months, we must institute effective mitigation measures to save lives and prevent deaths and to reduce the impact of the pandemic to our nation and the economy," he said.

          This comes after Duque convened another DOH Command Conference, attended by members of the A (H1N1) task force, DOH regional directors and chiefs of hospitals, and representatives form the private sector.

          With the move towards mitigation, the DOH said that they are ensuring all government hospitals, at all levels, have the capacity to administer care to high-risk patients, in accordance with the directives of President Arroyo.

          Duque has also called for meetings with the member-agencies of the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) to "engage them... in strengthening the involvement of local government units in the A (H1N1) response."

          "We have also requested the NDCC member agencies, especially DepEd, CHED and TESDA and PIA to help us in our nationwide campaign against A (H1N1). This is to make sure that our information and education activities reach all schools, barangays and provinces in the country," Duque added.

          The DOH will also meet with medical and health associations, such as the Philippine Medical Association and the Philippine Hospital Association regarding treatment and management of A (H1N1) patients.

          'Preparedness plans'

          The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), meanwhile, is urging the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to compel large firms employing more than 500 workers to submit their "preparedness plans" in dealing with the spread of the virus.

          "The DOLE has to ensure that business establishments, particularly the labor-intensive ones, are taking adequate measures to monitor, prevent and control the potential proliferation of Influenza A(H1N1) among their workforces," TUCP secretary-general Ernesto Herrera was quoted in a statement.

          The DOLE earlier issued Department Advisory No. 4, providing "Guidelines on Influenza A(H1N1) Prevention and Control at the Workplace," for all employers and workers in the private sector.

          Herrera, however, said the guidelines were not enough, saying the DOLE's Occupational Health and Safety Center (OHSC) should require large employers to submit their plans to deal with influenza A (H1N1).

          TUCP earlier said that the virus, if left unchecked, could soon invade the country's factories and impair labor productivity.-- With a report from Jing Casta?eda, ABS-CBN News

          as of 07/01/2009

          ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
          Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

          ~~~~ Twitter:@GertvanderHoek ~~~ GertvanderHoek@gmail.com ~~~

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          • #20
            Re: Phillipines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,668 - 3 deaths

            2 men with H1N1 die ? health dept.

            By Anna Valmero

            INQUIRER.net

            First Posted 17:01:00 07/13/2009

            MANILA, Philippines ? Two more people with the Influenza A(H1N1) virus in the country have died, bringing the total number of deaths related to the disease to three, an official of the Department of Health (DoH) said.

            However, it was not immediately clear whether the fatalities died because of A(H1N1), Arnel Rivera, officer-in-charge of the DoH operation center for A(H1N1) told INQUIRER.net.

            One of the casualties, a 19-year-old male also had asthma aside from A(H1N1) while the other, a 74-year-old man, also had emphysema, Rivera said.

            The country?s first A(H1N1)-related death, a female employee of the House of Representatives, had other illnesses before she acquired the novel flu virus. She died in late June.

            The two new fatalities were among the 2,668 confirmed A(H1N1) cases as of late last week, Rivera said.

            Of the total number of cases, 2,543 or 95 percent have recovered, he said.

            ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
            Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

            ~~~~ Twitter:@GertvanderHoek ~~~ GertvanderHoek@gmail.com ~~~

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            • #21
              Re: Phillipines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,668 - 3 deaths

              5 Mindoro students infected with H1N1 virus
              By Madonna Virola
              Inquirer Southern Luzon
              First Posted 14:52:00 07/18/2009

              Filed Under: Swine Flu, Diseases, Health, Epidemic and Plague

              CALAPAN CITY, Philippines?Five students of a public school here were confirmed to have been infected with the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, Mayor Paulino Salvador Leachon said Friday afternoon.

              Despite the massive campaign against H1N1 here, five students of Managpi Elementary School in Barangay Managpi, more than 10 kilometers from the city center, were found positive for the virus on Friday morning, Leachon said.

              On Wednesday, upon the order of Leachon, throat swab was done on five elementary pupils from five sitios in Barangay Managpi, after 65 to 100 of its 132 students were reported to have fever, Dr. Basilisa Llanto, city health officer, told the Inquirer.

              "To me, that was extraordinary and so I exercised my discretion under the local government code to promote public welfare as there may be outbreak of A(H1N1)," Leachon said.

              Leachon requested the city schools superintendent to suspend classes last Wednesday, which will be extended for another 10 days after five students were found to be positive for swine flu.

              "The results were relayed by (Department of Health) regional director Dr. Gloria Balboa to Mayor Leachon before lunch yesterday," said Llanto.

              The city was faced with the task of breaking the news to the community without causing panic, Llanto said.

              She conducted a lecture on H1N1 at the school which was attended by teachers, parents and barangay officials.

              "I had to prepare them by saying at the end of my lecture that pupils tested for A(H1N1) were found positive," said Llanto.

              She cited "social distancing, proper hand washing, teacher's reporting on even suspected cases of A(H1N1)," among the preventive measures.

              To encourage people to report suspected cases of the virus, Leachon pledged medical assistance and gave Llanto's mobile number as hotline (0915-4166128).

              Dr. Normando Legaspi, director of the Oriental Mindoro Provincial Hospital, also agreed to be the referral hospital.

              Meanwhile, cases of fever were also reported among some children at the Adriatico Memorial Elementary School and Jose Leido Jr. Memorial National High School in the city.

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              • #22
                Re: Philippines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,688 - 3 deaths

                Suspected A/H1N1 flu outbreak reported in Philippine jails

                2009-07-20 11:43:22

                MANILA, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Over 100 inmates in two Philippine jails were quarantined for suspected A/H1N1 influenza, raising fears that an outbreak might occur among the confined population, local media reported Monday.

                More than 60 inmates have developed flu-like symptoms in the central Philippines' Mandaue city jail, where 100 inmates were placed under observation, according to the report of local Tv network GMA News.

                In northern Bulacan provincial jail, ten inmates were quarantined after showing sings of A/H1N1 influenza, the report said.

                The suspected outbreak has prompted jail officials to shorten families' visit hours and to conduct thermal scanning on visitors before they enter the jail.

                The Philippines is among the worst-hit by the A/H1N1 influenza in Southeast Asia as the authorities confirmed 2,688 cases by July9, with four deaths. However, 95 percent of the patients have recovered, health officials said.

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                • #23
                  Re: Philippines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,688 - 9 deaths

                  Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/re...nts-die-baguio

                  Three A(H1N1) patients die in Baguio
                  abs-cbnNEWS.com | 07/29/2009 5:16 PM


                  Three more Baguio City residents, including a baby, infected with influenza A(H1N1) have died, bringing the total of reported deaths in the country to 9.

                  Dr. Myrna Cabotaje, director of the Department of Health's office in the Cordillera Autonomous Region, said the three fatalities were a 9-day-old baby, a 17-year-old student and a 9-year-old child.

                  Cabotaje said the baby died Saturday followed by the student and the 9-year-old victim on Tuesday.


                  The regional health chief said the three victims were all infected with A(H1N1), but clarified that they have yet to determine if the causes of death are related to the disease.

                  On July 22, a 25-year-old woman also infected with A(H1N1) died after giving birth to twin girls at the Saint Louis University Hospital.


                  The DOH has declared a low-level community outbreak of the virus in the city, one of the country's famous tourist destinations.

                  Cabotaje said that there are already 177 confirmed A(H1N1) cases in the region, 115 of which were recorded in Baguio City.

                  The flu deaths in Baguio City brought the number of reported flu-related deaths in the country to 9.

                  The first five deaths include a House of Representatives employee, a 19-year-old with asthma, a 74-year-old with emphysema, a public school teacher in Muntinlupa City and an American teacher in Tacloban City.
                  With a report from Butch Mendizabal, ABS-CBN Baguio
                  as of 07/29/2009 5:16 PM

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                  • #24
                    Re: Philippines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,688 - 9 deaths

                    Updating death articles:

                    Source: http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2...1n1-death.html

                    July 17, 2009
                    Philippines: Teacher is fourth H1N1 death

                    Via the Manila Times: Teacher in Muntinlupa City 4th to die from killer flu in RP. Excerpt:

                    A 42-year-old female teacher infected with Influenza A(H1N1) virus died in Muntinlupa City (Metro Manila), the fourth death in the country related to the novel virus, a local health official reported Friday.

                    City Health Officer Dr. Edilinda Patac said that the public school teacher, who died on Wednesday at the Ospital ng Muntinlupa, was hospitalized after she vomited and had diarrhea and fever. The death of the teacher was confirmed on Thursday.

                    Dr. Patac said that she had talked with the school principal about the details of the teacher?s condition before her death. She added that city health personnel would disinfect the entire school this weekend to prevent the spread of the A(H1N1) virus, which causes swine flu.

                    The city health officer did not divulge the school where the victim was teaching. The school, she said, would not be shut down and classes would resume on Monday.

                    Dr. Patac said that all people who had contact with the victim would be observed for symptoms of A(H1N1) virus infection. As a precautionary measure, she added, oseltamivir would be immediately given to high-risk people who had been exposed to the teacher.

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                    • #25
                      Re: Philippines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,688 - 9 deaths

                      Source: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/167966/L...-related-death

                      Leyte reports RP's 5th A(H1N1)-related death
                      MARK MERUE?AS, GMANews.TV
                      07/22/2009 | 03:15 PM

                      A 56-year-old female American school employee in Leyte who was found positive for Influenza A(H1N1) virus died on Tuesday, but a local health official said the dreaded disease had little to do with her death.

                      Dr. Minerva Molon, assistant regional health director for Eastern Visayas, said the victim worked in the administration department of a private international school in Tacloban City.

                      In an interview with GMANews.TV, Molon said the patient developed a fever on July 8, and that five days later, her mouth swab sample confirmed she contracted the virus.

                      The World Health Organization (WHO) has placed the worldwide A(H1N1) death toll at over 700.

                      Molon said after learning the result of the mouth swab, the woman and her husband went into quarantine and started taking anti-viral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu). They were given a clean bill of health after days of medication.

                      ?But days later, the woman developed tightness of the chest and was confined at the hospital," Molon said.

                      The woman, who died of myocardial infarction or commonly known as a heart attack, was also found to be suffering from a pre-existing medical condition ? concomitant hyperthyroidism.

                      ?As per our assessment, we could not possibly relate her death to the virus because she has already gone out of quarantine. Her medication was already finished," Molon said.

                      ?We would like to stop rumors that this is due to A(H1N1) because people are just getting scared," she added.

                      In Manila, the Department of Health (DOH) said the total number of A(H1N1)-related deaths in the country remains at three pending confirmation of the two latest fatalities.

                      Aside from the Leyte case, the Muntinlupa City government last week reported the death of 43-year-old public school teacher infected by the virus.

                      But the DOH could not immediately confirm if the cases in Muntinlupa and Leyte could be categorized as A(H1N1)?related deaths.

                      ?Matagal kasi ang consolidation and validation of the veracity of the reports coming to us, kaya hindi namin kaagad masabi. So far, tatlo pa rin ang tally namin," Dr. Arnel Rivera, chief of the DOH Response Division, told GMANews.TV.

                      (The consolidation and verification process of the reports take a long time so we could not immediately say if it should be connected with the A(H1N1) flu virus.)

                      Rivera said some ?technical problems" in the validation process, carried out by the agency?s epidemiology division, could have led to the delay of the reporting. He said the DOH is carefully verifying reports that they receive to prevent giving wrong information to media.

                      The DOH has not yet released any update on A(H1N1) since July 9. In its last update, the agency has so far confirmed 2,668 A(H1N1) cases since it started testing mouth swabs last May 1.

                      Confirmed cases in the Philippines have a 95 percent recovery rate ? with 2,543 of the infected patients getting well. The DOH has earlier stopped issuing its regular A(H1N1) updates after shifting from containment to mitigation. - GMANews.TV

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                      • #26
                        Re: Philippines - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,688 - 9 deaths

                        Source: http://ikuwaderno.com/woman-with-ah1...-to-twins.html

                        Woman with A(H1N1) dies after giving birth to twins

                        * Saturday, July 25, 2009, 16:08

                        A 25-year-old woman infected with influenza A(H1N1) died after giving birth to twin girls in a Baguio City hospital.
                        Dr. Servando Liban II, medical director of the Saint Louis University (SLU) Hospital, said the woman was brought to them on Wednesday after manifesting flu-like symptoms.
                        Liban said the woman was brought to the hospital?s surgical intensive care unit to undergo caesarean operation and gave birth to premature twin girls the next day.
                        She said the woman was infected with A(H1N1), but doctors have yet to determine the cause of her death.
                        The doctor said throat swab samples have been taken from the twins.
                        ?We are still waiting for the result,? Liban told ABS-CBN Baguio.
                        Health officials said there are a total of 95confirmed cases of A(H1N1) in Baguio City, where a low-level community outbreak has been declared.
                        The woman was the 6th A(H1N1) patient to have died in the Philippines.

                        (via)

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