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Monday, April 04, 2005
Rabies alert raise in Sultan Kudarat
ALARMED by the rising cases of rabies infection in their province, Sultan Kudarat officials are planning to conduct a province-wide vaccination of dogs to stop the further spread of the killer disease.
Dr. Gerte Pingoy, chief of the province's mobile hospital, said the Provincial Government is mulling the creation of a committee that will be primarily tasked to lead the massive vaccination as part of the province's rabies prevention and control program.
He said the proposed massive vaccination of dogs, considered by the Provincial Government as an urgent move, is now being discussed by the provincial board.
According to a medical reference, rabies or hydrophobia is an acute viral disease of the central nervous system transmitted to humans by the bite or saliva of an infected animal.
It is invariably fatal unless properly treated before the symptoms appear.
Pingoy failed to give the actual figures on the rabies incidence in his province but cited that he has personally attended to a number of confirmed rabies deaths, the most recent victim of which was a grade schooler from Bagumbayan town, over the last few months.
Pingoy said most of the confirmed rabies deaths in the province were caused by stray dogs.
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(April 4, 2005 issue)
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