Philippines: 2014 Dengue outbreaks

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Dengue surge in Caraga: 17 dead, 3,313 downed
by Mike U. Crismundo and Camcer Ordo?ez Imam
August 12, 2014

Butuan City/Cagayan De Oro City, Misamis Oriental ? Dengue is now a ?surging disease? that has claimed 17 deaths and downed over 3,300 people in the Caraga Region, health authorities warned, as one of its cities, Tandag in Surigao del Sur, declared a state of calamity yesterday.

The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP or City Council) of Tandag has the city under a state of calamity in the wake of rising dengue cases recorded in 18 of its 21 barangays.
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http://www.mb.com.ph/dengue-surge-in-caraga-17-dead-3313-downed/

Dengue cases down in Baguio City
August 13, 2014 6:20 am
BAGUIO CITY, August 12 -? Ninety seven dengue cases have been recorded for the period January to June this year, compared to 373 dengue cases in the same period last year, showing a significant decrease of 73.99 percent.
In an interview today, August 12, city medical officer Donnabel Tubera said based on a report, most of the dengue cases are aged 20 to 29 years old and majority of them are males.
In spite of this, there is no fatality reported, stressed Tubera.
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http://balita.ph/2014/08/13/dengue-cases-down-in-baguio-city/

Dengue cases in Aklan still on the rise
BY: VENUS G. VILLANUEVA
Wednesday 13th of August 2014

KALIBO, Aklan, August 13 (PIA6) -- Cases of dengue continue to increase in the province of Aklan with those who have gotten sick of the mosquito-borne disease from January to July 29 of this year here reaching 657.

This period?s cases, if compared to those last year for the same period, is 41.90% higher, based on records of the Provincial Health Office (PHO).
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Meanwhile, in a recent meeting to reorganize the Aklan Blood Coordinating Council (ABCC) and to campaign for sustained blood collection for use of dengue victims and other emergency cases, Dr. Cornelio Cuachon, Provincial Health Officer I revealed that one Aklanon already died of dengue last week.

The victim, based on local media reports, is said to be a third year college student and the son of a midwife working in a town here.
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- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?art....h5dfUonI.dpuf

[Ronan Kelly]

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Dengue cases drops 62% to 39,687 from January to July 26, 2014 compared to 104,043 cases same period in 2013 - DOH

Created on Friday, 15 August 2014
The Department of Health (DOH) reported 39,687 dengue cases nationwide from January to July 26, which is 61.86 percent lower compared to the same period last year of 104,043 cases.

In DOH latest surveillance on dengue, it reported that most of the cases came from Region X with reported 4,145 cases (10.44 percent), followed by Region XII with 3,894 (9.81 percent), Region XI, 3,696 (9.31 percent), Region VIII, 3,474 (8.75 percent) and CARAGA, 3,239 (8.16 percent).

There were 164 deaths from January to July 26.
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Comment: As always, preliminary figures for this year are being compared to revised figures for last year. Last year, DOH reported 62,156 cases with 263 deaths to July 13th and 102,192 cases with 385 deaths to Aug 24. So approximately 75,000 cases & 300 deaths by July 26th last year. So comparing apples with apples, this year's figures are running at a little over half of what they were last year. - Ro

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Source: http://www.catanduanestribune.com/article/3UT0

Spike in dengue cases alarm health officials
posted 19 hours ago ?

The Provincial Health Office has declared a Code White alert in the municipality of Virac following a troubling increase in the number of suspected dengue cases since May, with 36 recorded in the last week alone...

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Dengue upsurge: 23 killed in Caraga
By Alvin T. Guanzon | Aug. 26, 2014 at 12:01am

BUTUAN CITY, Agusan del Norte ? At least 23 people have died and more than 4,500 others were sick with dengue in the Caraga Region, according to health officials, who called the surge of cases ?alarming.?

Dr. Jerna Manatad, Division Chief of the Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, said at least one city, Tandag, has reported 296 cases and declared a state of calamity.

?The surge of dengue cases all over Caraga Region is quite alarming,? she told a press conference.
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http://manilastandardtoday.com/2014/08/26/dengue-upsurge-23-killed-in-caraga

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Dengue cases down 61% so far this year
By Jocelyn R. Uy |Philippine Daily Inquirer6:12 am | Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

MANILA, Philippines?The Department of Health (DOH) has noted a huge drop in the number of dengue cases in the country in the past eight months compared to the same period last year.
A monthly monitoring report showed that from Jan. 1 to Aug. 16, a total of 49,591 incidences of the mosquito-borne disease were recorded, accounting for a 61.21-percent dive from the figures reported in the same period in 2013. So far, 205 deaths have been reported this year.
According to the DOH National Epidemiology Center?s disease surveillance report, there were 127,861 cases of dengue fever last year.
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Comment: As always, preliminary figures for this year are being compared to revised figures for last year. Last year, DOH reported 102,192 cases with 385 deaths to Aug 24. So comparing apples with apples, this year's figures are running at about half of what they were last year. - Ro

[Shiloh]

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Source: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=961410499347

Dengue claims second Aklanon victim
By: Venus G. Villanueva
Friday 12th of September 2014


KALIBO, Aklan, September 12 (PIA6) -- Another Aklanon has died from dengue, bringing to two (2) the total number of deaths from the disease from January to August 26 of this year in Aklan.

According to Dr. Cornelio Cuachon, Provincial Health Officer I of the Provincial Health Office here, the dengue victim is a 51-year old female from Nabas, Aklan who died August 15 at the Ibajay District Hospital in Ibajay, Aklan.

The victim was brought to the hospital as she reportedly suffered from gastroenteritis but further tests conducted by health personnel in the hospital revealed she had dengue because her gums were already bleeding.

The first dengue death in Aklan was in July, a college student who was first confined at the Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital (DRSTMH) and later brought to a hospital in Capiz where he died...

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Dengue cases down by 58.33%
by Charina Clarrise L. Echaluce
October 2, 2014

A total of 64,375 dengue cases nationwide were recorded from January 1 to September 13, this year, Health Spokesperson Lyndon Lee Suy disclosed, based on the records from the Department of Health-National Epidemiology Center (DOH-NEC).

?We are actually 58.33 percent lower this year,? Suy said, comparing the number of cases that he revealed from the number of recorded cases in the same period last year, which has a total of 154, 495.
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http://www.mb.com.ph/dengue-cases-down-by-58-33/

Comment: As usual MOH is comparing this year's figures to last year's revised tally. 117,658 cases were reported on Sep 7, 2013 and 131,808 on Sep 21 so around 125k cases on Sep 13 last year. No fatality figures released in media reports today, but to September 6th the cfr was 0.404% giving an estimated 260 fatalities versus about 450 last year. - Ro

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Dengue cases in Surigao City highest in 10 years
By Roel Catoto on October 30 2014 4:40 pm

SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 Oct) ? Dengue cases here have reached unprecedented levels in the last 10 years, with 501 cases for the last 10 months wherein 3 patients died, according to the City Health Office.

Garosfe Menor, CHO dengue program coordinator, noted that the number is expected to increase some more by year?s end, especially since many residents seem not to hear the health office?s plea to clean their surroundings and thus prevent the spread of the mosquito-borne disease.

She cited that the next highest incidence in the last 10 years was in 2004, when the number of cases reached 429 with 6 fatalities. The number of cases rose and dropped in the succeeding years; last year, the CHO documented 255 cases with 2 deaths.

This year, Barangay Washington topped the number of cases with 104; followed by Barangay Luna, 70; Barangay Taft with 63 cases; Barangay Canlanipa, 57; and San Juan, 56.

Menor said dengue cases normally occur from September to January...

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Over 70,000 dengue cases recorded in 10 months

Wednesday, November 5, 2014


MORE than 70,000 dengue cases have been reported across the country inside the 10-month period this year, said the Department of Health (DOH).

Based on the data from the DOH?National Epidemiology Center (NEC), there are a total of 73,815 dengue cases recorded in the country since January 1 until October 4.

"This is 56.32 percent lower compared to the same period last year, which was 168,893," said the DOH-NEC report.

There were also 288 deaths from dengue, also lower than the 571 tallied last year during a similar period.
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2014/11/05/over-70000-dengue-cases-recorded-10-months-374818

Comment: - As usual the MOH is comparing this year's preliminary figures (which will inevitably be revised upward) with last year's already revised figures. 131,808 cases and 470 deaths were reported to Sep 21 and 166,107 with 528 fatal to Nov 16 of 2013. So an estimated 135-140,000 cases were reported to Oct 4 last year. Still, a significant reduction this year.

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Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/zamboanga/...e-cases-377960


Health office marks decrease of dengue cases
By Bong Garcia
Saturday, November 22, 2014

THE local health office in Zamboanga City has noted that the number of dengue cases decreased by 16 in October 2014 compared to the same period in 2013.

City Health Officer Dr. Rodelin Agbulos said they have recorded 61 cases last month, while there were 77 cases for the same period recorded in the previous year.

Agbulos said the decline in dengue cases was brought about by the concerted efforts like the continuous clean-up drive in the community that resulted to the destruction of the breeding of dengue-carriers mosquitoes...

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Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cagayan-de...s-cases-383589

Dengue deaths, cases up
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

DENGUE cases in Northern Mindanao have remained unabated with 65 deaths compared to last year's 48, covering the same period from January 1 to December 19.

The disease reporting units of the Department of Health in the region recorded the case fatality rate (CFR) at 0.57.

The CFR is the proportion of dengue deaths within a designated population of cases.

In 2014, 11,437 dengue cases have been recorded, registering a 119.39 percent increase compared to last year?s 5,213 cases.

Cagayan de Oro City has the highest case with 5,672 (62 percent). It recorded 3,518 cases last year.

The province of Misamis Oriental ranked next registering 55.9 percent.

However, Misamis Oriental has the highest increase of cases for this week at 201.68 percent while the city has the highest cases for the week at 30.8 percent...