Via The News Today :
" The Department of Health 6 has appealed to all sectors in Western Visayas to be specific and more focused in their clean-up drive to rid their surrounding of breeding ground for dengue-carrying mosquitoes as the number of cases since January to July 17 this year is more than 55 percent higher during the same period in 2009.
Dr. Jessie Glen Alonsabe of the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 6 Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit their monitoring showed that the incidence of dengue in Western Visayas has already surpassed the alert level and is now “within the epidemic threshold.”
Alonsabe said that the epidemic threshold means that anytime there might be area or areas that will experience an outbreak or are already ripe for an outbreak.
Data from the RESU showed that from January to July 17, 2010 the number of dengue cases recorded were 3,457 with 24 deaths. The figure is 55.16 percent higher compared with the same period last year of 2,228 with 35 casualties."
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