By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Eastern Visayas Officials with the Department of Health in the Eastern Visayas (Region 8), which encompasses Samar, Leyte and Biliran, are reporting an 86 percent increase in...

By NewsDesk    @infectiousdiseasenews In the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, the governor of Iloilo province announced he will issue an executive order declaring an outbreak in the province. According...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Western Visayas The Philippines Department of Health in the Western Visayas reported 17 human rabies deaths during the first five months of the year, the second most...

By Robert Herriman  @infectiousdiseasenews Dengue The number of dengue cases in the country continue to rise with rainy season now here. Since the beginning of the year through June 1, the Philippines...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 At the middle of May 2018, Philippines health officials reported 41,104 cases, including 220 deaths. During the same period this year, we see a significant increase in cases...

Dengue in Calabarzon Health officials in the Calabarzon region report intensifying its anti-dengue campaign as numbers rise in the Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, and Quezon provinces. The Regional Epidemiology...

With some 1,200 measles cases and four deaths reported to date in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines, the Department of Health 6 (DOH-6) will be conducting non-selective vaccination to 101...

The town of Janiuay, in central Iloilo province in the Visayas, Philippines has reported a huge increase in dengue fever cases in 2018 compared to last year, according to a local media report. The municipality...

The Iloilo Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported recently that the number of leptospirosis infections in the province in the Western Visayas in the Philippines is up a whopping 283 percent compared...

The Philippines has been one of southeast Asia’s dengue hotspots in recent years and according to the latest figures from the Department of Health-Epidemiology Bureau (DOH-EB), the archipelago recorded...