By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Last weekend, the provincial government of Samar in the Eastern Visayas of the Philippines approved the resolution to put the entire province under a state of calamity...

An outbreak of diarrheal disease in the Eastern Visayas, particularly the island of Samar has accounted for 1, 476 cases of illness and 21 deaths, according to local health officials. The outbreak has...