Just days after the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported on the fourth travel-associated Zika virus case in a traveler to Vietnam, health officials report on an additional...

In a follow-up to earlier reports of a gastroenteritis outbreak in Zamboanga City, Assistant City Health Officer Dr. Kibtiya Uddin disclosed on Monday that a total of 1,538 cases of gastroenteritis has...

City health officials in Zamboanga City put the norovirus case count at 1,207 through Apr. 28. In addition, five deaths have been reported, four in children, due to the diarrhea but their cases were aggravated...

After reporting more than 1100 gastrointestinal viral infections, Zamboanga City Mayor, Beng Climaco signed Executive Order 174 declaring a gastroenteritis outbreak in the city. To date, the disease...

In an update on the first of its kind immunization program with the newly approved dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, Philippines health officials (DOH) provided the following update Monday. The Dengue School-Based...

In a follow-up to the norovirus outbreak in Zamboanga City, city health officials reported Monday that the case count has now hit 1,174 in the past month, which is straining the capacity of private and...

Health officials in Davao Oriental in the southern Philippines has declared the province free of the mosquito borne parasitic diseases, malaria and filariasis. During the ceremonial declaration and awarding...

UPDATE: Norovirus numbers prompt outbreak declaration in Zamboanga City An outbreak of the gastrointestinal virus, norovirus, has sickened some 700 people, primarily children, and killed four, according...

The Philippines is the first and only country to begin vaccinating children for dengue fever with the recently approved vaccine, Dengvaxia. On April 4, 2016, the Department of Health (DOH) started the...

The Philippines had the highest incidence in the Western Pacific Region from 2013 to 2015. In 2015 alone, the Philippines recorded more than 200,000 dengue fever cases, including some 600 dengue-related...