Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 02:28:30 +0000
The Department of Health (DOH) assured on Monday that there have been no reports of any diseases related to the water shortage.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:08:33 +0000
In less than two months, 215 people have died due to measles as more than 13,000 have contracted the airborne disease, the DOH said Friday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:44:01 +0000
The patient earlier taken to the RITM, after showing signs of possible MERS-CoV, tested negative for the disease, the DOH-Calabarzon said.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:29:30 +0000
The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday declared a measles outbreak in the National Capital Region (NCR).
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 03:29:05 +0000
A man among a group of migrants detained in a desolate part of New Mexico near the border with Mexico has been diagnosed as infected with flesh-eating bacteria.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:10:47 +0000
The Department of Health (DOH) has assured people afflicted with (HIV) that government has enough supply of anti-retroviral drugs.
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Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 21:09:47 +0000
From January 1984 to September this year, the regions with the highest number of reported human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases were Metro Manila with 23,478 (40 percent of the total) cases, Calabarzon with 8,754 cases (15 percent) and Central Luzon with 5,366 cases (9 percent). — Marielle Medina, Inquirer Research
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — A cholera emergency has been declared in Zimbabwe’s capital after 20 people have died, the health minister said Tuesday.
The deaths in Harare have many fearing a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands at the height of the southern African country’s economic problems in 2008. Water and sanitation infrastructure is collapsing.
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Wading in floodwaters led them to the leptospirosis ward at the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City, most of the 30 patients in the government hospital agreed.
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