CAR log 11 dengue deaths

AN INCREASE 97 percent in the number of dengue cases including 11 deaths have been recorded from January to October this year by the Department of Health in the Cordillera region.

In the weekly Kapihan sa Baguio, Nurse 5 Geeny Anne Austria of the Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit of DOH Cordillera said 5,921, of cases have been recorded by DOH.

The recorded dengue cases were from Kalinga – 1,139 or 19.2 percent, Benguet – 1,025 cases or 17.3

percent, Apayao – 887 cases or 15 percent, Abra – 829 cases or 14 percent, Ifugao – 568 cases or 9.6 percent, Baguio City – 418 cases or 7 percent, Mountain Province – 224 cases or 3.8 percent and non-CAR provinces – 831 or 14 percent.

Based on the data obtained from the agency, more males reportedly were affected by dengue fever during the reckoning period with 3,161 or 53.4 percent of the total number of affected individualsregionwide with an age range from 4 days to 96 years old with a median of 16 years old. Out of the 11 deaths, eight were from the region while the three others were from the other region.

In 2017, DOH Cordillera registered 2,999 cases from the same period.

Meanwhile, DOH Cordillera recorded a 15 percent increase in typhoid/paratyphoid fever cases registering at 1,894 cases with no reported deaths.

Although the DOH have recorded a five percent decrease in the influenza like illnesses with 8,138 cases this year as compared to 8,538 cases last year, no deaths have been recorded so far.

“We would like to remind the public to keep themselves warm particularly these months as we are now experiencing a change in the weather with the coming of the cold season,” Austria added.