NewsDesk @bactiman63 Quezon City dengue and leptospirosis The Quezon City Epidemiology & Disease Surveillance Unit (QCESU) reported 1,160 cases of dengue from January 1 to June 24, 2023, with Barangay...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Five Registered Nurses (RNs) from the Philippines will arrive this week in Saskatchewan. This is the first of several groups of Filipino RNs with conditional job offers that will...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health officials in Iloilo province, in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines report 14 laboratory-confirmed cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE), including four deaths, from...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Philippines President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. appointed Dr. Teodoro “Ted” J. Herbosa, MD as Secretary of the Department of Health (DOH) Monday. Presidential Communications...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Officials in Negros Occidental province reports that more than 2,000 heads of swine have died of hog cholera, or classical swine fever in the province since last month. Worst-hit...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Rabies killed a 37-year-old man from Barangay Bitaog Gaja, New Lucena town, the second rabies-related fatality this year in Iloilo, according to a Panay News report. Dr. Maria Socorro...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Philippines reports an increase of maternal deaths during the past two years in the Philippines. In 2019, 1458 women died of maternal causes;...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Provincial Health Office (PHO) in Negros Oriental reports a spike in dengue fever cases in 2023 to date. The PHO reports 398 cases, including one death, which is 91 percent increase...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Philippines has been grappling with an increase in vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in the first months of 2023–diphtheria cases are up 775 percent, measles are up 299...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health officials in the Philippines reports a 135 percent increase in leptospirosis cases year to date, according to the latest data from the Epidemiology Bureau. From January 1 to...