{"id":157026,"date":"2018-03-17T05:15:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T09:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=157026"},"modified":"2018-03-17T05:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T09:15:28","slug":"dengue-cases-down-by-32-in-jan-feb-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/17\/dengue-cases-down-by-32-in-jan-feb-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengue cases down by 32% in Jan-Feb 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The dengue incidence has in fact gone down” Duque III said (ShutterStock\u00a0photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0–The Department of Health (DOH) has reported that the number of dengue cases decreased in the first eight weeks of 2018 compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n

“The dengue incidence has in fact gone down,” DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III said when reporters asked about the current number of dengue cases in the country.<\/p>\n

Duque has been doing rounds in several hospitals to check the facilities and medical personnel’s compliance to guidelines on admitting patients who have been immunized with Dengvaxia dengue vaccine.<\/p>\n

Duque said that case fatality ratio (CFR) or number of cases of deaths over number of cases is still less than one percent based on their current assessment.<\/p>\n

“It’s probably between 0.4 and 0.6 percent. So it hasn’t really change,” he said.<\/p>\n

Based on the DOH’s Dengue Disease Surveillance Report for the period of January 1 to February 24, there have been 15,599 dengue cases recorded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is 32.56% lower compared to the same time period last year’s (23,131) cases,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

The report also said that there were 74 CFR (0.47%) reported for the same period.<\/p>\n

The report also indicated that the current CFR was lower compared to the same period last year which were recorded at 140 deaths or 0.61%.<\/p>\n

The DOH report also showed that most or 24.12% of those afflicted with dengue are aged 10-14 years old.<\/p>\n

The report also showed that 53.51% of the cases are males.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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