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Dengue kills 3, inflicts 308
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THE dreaded dengue hemorrhagic fever has claimed three lives as of the third quarter of this year (January to September 12), reports from the Provincial Health Office (PHO) showed.
The fatalities were identified as Rico Vicente, 10, of San Agustin, Isabela town; Dominador Abatayo, 8, of Cauayan and Jane Garcia, 9, of Barangay 17, Victorias City.
For the same period last year, the PHO recorded only two deaths from the same ailment.
But Provincial Health Officer Luisa Efren, in his report to Governor Joseph Mara?on, noted that dengue cases were actually reduced to only 308 or 71 percent from January to September this year when compared to the same period last year with 1,100 cases.
Of the 308 reported cases, Bago City topped the list with 44 cases, followed by Victorias.
In the Department of Health's website, www.doh.gov.ph., dengue hemorrhagic fever is defined as an acute infectious viral disease usually affecting infants and young children.
It is characterized by fever during the initial phase and other symptoms like headache, pain in the eye, joint pain, muscle pain, and other pain, followed by signs of bleeding such as petechiae (red tiny spots on the skin), nosebleeding and gumbleeding.
If there is blood in the stools and/or blood in the vomitus and accompanied by shock, this is called Dengue Shock Syndrome and is often fatal.
The DOH advisory explained that the disease is transmitted by Aedes Aegypti, a day-biting mosquito which lays eggs in clear water container, such as flower vases, cans, rain barrels, old rubber tires, etc. The adult mosquitoes rest in dark places of the house.
According to PHO's report the two peaks of the carrier mosquito biting activities are at dawn before sunrise and another at dusk after sunset.
Efren, in her report, said the Province has intensified its drive for environmental sanitation, including the removal of possible breeding places of mosquitoes inside and outside houses, implementation of the 4 o'clock habit and massive information dissemination on the preventive and control measure.
The PHO is also conducting a continuous monitoring of dengue cases in the entire province of Negros Occidental.
(September 15, 2006 issue)
The fatalities were identified as Rico Vicente, 10, of San Agustin, Isabela town; Dominador Abatayo, 8, of Cauayan and Jane Garcia, 9, of Barangay 17, Victorias City.
For the same period last year, the PHO recorded only two deaths from the same ailment.
But Provincial Health Officer Luisa Efren, in his report to Governor Joseph Mara?on, noted that dengue cases were actually reduced to only 308 or 71 percent from January to September this year when compared to the same period last year with 1,100 cases.
Of the 308 reported cases, Bago City topped the list with 44 cases, followed by Victorias.
In the Department of Health's website, www.doh.gov.ph., dengue hemorrhagic fever is defined as an acute infectious viral disease usually affecting infants and young children.
It is characterized by fever during the initial phase and other symptoms like headache, pain in the eye, joint pain, muscle pain, and other pain, followed by signs of bleeding such as petechiae (red tiny spots on the skin), nosebleeding and gumbleeding.
If there is blood in the stools and/or blood in the vomitus and accompanied by shock, this is called Dengue Shock Syndrome and is often fatal.
The DOH advisory explained that the disease is transmitted by Aedes Aegypti, a day-biting mosquito which lays eggs in clear water container, such as flower vases, cans, rain barrels, old rubber tires, etc. The adult mosquitoes rest in dark places of the house.
According to PHO's report the two peaks of the carrier mosquito biting activities are at dawn before sunrise and another at dusk after sunset.
Efren, in her report, said the Province has intensified its drive for environmental sanitation, including the removal of possible breeding places of mosquitoes inside and outside houses, implementation of the 4 o'clock habit and massive information dissemination on the preventive and control measure.
The PHO is also conducting a continuous monitoring of dengue cases in the entire province of Negros Occidental.
(September 15, 2006 issue)