4 tips to keep your family protected during dengue season
Dengue is a major public health problem in the Philippines and is endemic across all regions of this tropical country . Dengue outbreak in the Philippines mostly occurs during the wet
Dengue is a major public health problem in the Philippines and is endemic across all regions of this tropical country . Dengue outbreak in the Philippines mostly occurs during the wet
I remain ever grateful to those who prayed, sent messages of concern and prescribed all sorts of remedies while my son Diego was in the hospital stricken with dengue. Your
While other father-daughter teams build Lego or concoct slime, Lem and Alex Pastoral make insect repellent, dish soap and hand sanitizer. For seven years, chemistry grad Lem, 36, worked at
Most hospitals in Metro Manila are fully occupied these days, and I think it’s because of suspected dengue cases. In July, the Department of Health (DOH) issued a national alert
Mosquito-borne diseases cause millions of deaths every year, according to the World Health Organization, making the mosquito one of, if not the deadliest, animal in the world. In the first
When we expressed apprehensions on the potential long-term adverse side effects of the Sanofi-manufactured dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, in our previous columns (“Should the government spend P3B on a potentially harmful vaccine?” PDI, Nov. 8, 2016; “A second thought on the dengue vaccine,” April 15, 2016; “Rejoinder on the dengue vaccine,” April 22, 2016), a colleague, who’s more authoritative on infectious diseases, dismissed our concerns as farfetched.
The world’s first dengue vaccine is now commercially available in the Philippines.
Should we or should we not continue the government’s dengue vaccination program?
Over 2.5B people are at risk of dengue infection. That’s more than 30% of the world’s population in over 100 countries. To ensure that your family is completely protected from
Despite continuous studies for the treatment of dengue, the mosquito-borne disease remains to be incurable. Since the epidemic outbreak that started in the Philippines and Thailand in the 1950s, 64
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