2014 was a brutal year for measles in the Philippines as the country saw more than 58,000 cases and 110 fatalities. For the first nine months of last year, the archipelago reported in excess of 53,000...

During the first nine months of 2014, health officials in the Philippines saw 82,000 cases of the mosquito borne viral disease, dengue fever, nationwide. With the massive surge in cases in recent months,...

I totally missed this advisory issued by the Philippines Department of Health on Sep. 11 on the parasitic infection Capillariasis: Mode of Transmission: The disease can be acquired through consumption...

The Philippines has reported a surge in dengue fever over the past month or two and the mountain resort city of Baguio has been hit unusually hard with the mosquito borne viral disease since September,...

New data from the health ministries of Thailand and Malaysia show that the dengue situation in each country continues to grow steadily. Including the Philippines, all three countries have topped 90,000...

In  the span of two weeks, the number of dengue fever cases have increased by 14,000, according to updated data from the Philippines Department of Health Tuesday. For the period of Jan. 1 to Sep. 5, 2015,...

The bad news is the Philippines Department of Agriculture (DOA) says that rabies is responsible for the deaths of 200 to 300 Filipinos per year, making it one of the leading causes of preventable deaths...

The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) is reported a suspected  Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) death that has prompted mobilization of a MERS Task Force to create heightened...

The Philippines are reporting a surge of dengue fever cases from early August to early September, according to new numbers released by Department of Health (DOH)  spokesman Lyndon Lee Suy Wednesday. Suy...

Just one month after Philippines House of Representatives Speaker, Feliciano Belmonte contracted and was hospitalized with the mosquito borne viral disease, veteran Senator Juan Ponce Enrile has been...