A report via Punto! :
" CITY OF SAN FERNANDO : The Department of Health (DOH) in Central Luzon reported yesterday that dengue cases in the region is now 80 percent more than cases within the same period last year, with 23 deaths due to the mosquito-borne ailment also noted to be higher.
This, even DOH regional director Dr. Rio Magpantay also told Punto he is looking into reports of viral ailments causing dengue-like symptoms such as high fever and lowering not only of platelet counts but also of white blood corpuscles in the blood, but are later ascertained not to be dengue.
Magpantay said the dengue cases in Central Luzon has become “a cause for alarm” but noted that they have not reached epidemic proportions.
He cited latest reports indicating that since last January, 2,704 dengue cases have been noted in Central Luzon, and that this number is 80 percent higher than last year’s over the same period.
The number is expected to go higher as more reports were still expected from the field.At the national level, though, the DOH reported a higher 98.9 percent increase of dengue cases so far this year, as compared to the same period last year."
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