Just two months after health officials in Davao Oriental in the southern Philippines declared the province free of the mosquito borne parasitic diseases, malaria and filariasis, the northern Mindanao province...

Philippines health officials reported on the significant increase of dengue fever in the Western Visayas region of the country, particularly in the province of Iloilo. Through the first five months of...

Philippines health officials are expected to announce the laboratory results of the yet unknown etiologie(s) at a press conference later today. The outbreak of diarrhea has affected some 3500 people in...

The Philippines reported in excess of 200,000 dengue fever cases in 2015 and early in 2016, the archipelago has reported an increase of some 30 percent through the first quarter of 2016. In the Visayas, one...

In a follow-up to a previous report on the diarrhea outbreak that has sickened hundreds in the Eastern Visayas region, particularly the province of Samar, health officials have now officially declared...

Philippines health officials say they expect the cases of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) and diarrheal disease to rise with the coming rainy season in Zamboanga City. The city has already reported some...

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...

Philippines health officials have reported 33,748 suspected cases of dengue through the first three months of 2016, up from 24,927 cases reported during the same period in 2015. In addition, 126 dengue...

The outbreak of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) caused by at least three viruses, rotavirus, adenovirus and norovirus, in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga has grown to some 3,000 cases since it...

In a follow-up to the acute gastroenteritis outbreak that began at the end of  March, city officials say the outbreak has slowed dramatically from it’s peak just weeks ago. A gastroenteritis outbreak...