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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Mandaue reports 9 dengue cases; 3 deaths in towns
The number of deaths due to dengue rose to 32 during the first seven months of the year, with three more deaths recorded last month, Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (Resu) 7 records show.
According to Resu nurse Rennan Cimafranca, the two fatalities were a four-year-old boy from Consolacion, Cebu and a two-year-old girl from Jetafe, Bohol, who were both confined at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.
The third fatality was a five-month-old girl from San Remigio town who in Cebu City died last July 20 at a private hospital.
However, there are still fewer deaths since there were 49 fatalities during the same period last year.
Regional figures are also lower by 26.5 percent since there are only 1,322 reported cases from January to July and there were about 1,800 cases during the same period last year.
Cebu City, however, ranks first with 355 cases and 11 deaths, comprising 29 percent of the region’s total number of fatalities.
On the rise
Dengue cases in Mandaue City rose to 111 yesterday after nine persons were added to the roster of patients treated for dengue in different hospitals.
So far, no deaths were reported after that of two sisters in Barangay Looc early last month.
The nine patients were added to the 102 cases reported as of last July 5.
Surveillance nurse Rean Analie Espina of the City Health Office said yesterday the patients are 11 months to 58 years old. Most of them are males.
According to her report, most dengue patients or 12 come from Looc.
The second highest number of cases is from Barangays Paknaan and Tipolo, with eight each.
Barangay Tabok had seven.
As of yesterday, one case each was reported from Barangays Tingub, Jagobiao and Bakilid.
The patients were confined in hospitals in Mandaue and Cebu cities.
The death of Shane and Stephanie Tagalog of Looc has brought the number of dengue fatalities to three in Mandaue City this year.
The other fatality was from Barangay Guizo.
The Tagalog sisters had strain 4 of dengue, the worst type of the disease.
The sitio where they live was found to have Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the transmitter of the dengue virus.
Espina’s report recommended for the local government unit to intensify its information campaign on the importance of cleaning the surroundings to prevent dengue fever.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever is an acute infectious viral disease that usually affects infants and children. It is characterized by fever during the initial phase. (AAG/CYR)
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