{"id":165265,"date":"2018-05-28T03:21:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T07:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=165265"},"modified":"2018-05-28T03:21:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T07:21:05","slug":"doh-records-over-26k-dengue-cases-in-first-3-months-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/28\/doh-records-over-26k-dengue-cases-in-first-3-months-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH records over 26K dengue cases in first 3 months of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_157029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157029\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mosquitoe-1548948_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157029\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mosquitoe-1548948_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"The number of dengue deaths was also lower this year with only a total of 136 compared to the same period last year wherein a total of 180 dengue deaths were recorded. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mosquitoe-1548948_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mosquitoe-1548948_960_720-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The number of dengue deaths was also lower this year with only a total of 136 compared to the same period last year wherein a total of 180 dengue deaths were recorded. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Health (DOH) has recorded over 26,000 dengue cases nationwide in the first three months of 2018 but it was a decline compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the DOH&#8217;s Epidemiology Bureau Public Health Surveillance Division Dengue Report No. 3, 26,042 dengue cases were monitored from January 1 to March 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is 17 percent lower compared to the same period last year (31,358),\u201d the DOH report said.<\/p>\n<p>The regions with the highest number of cases are Calabarzon (Region 4-A) with 4,902; National Capital Region (4,874); Central Luzon (4,482); Northern Mindanao (1,533); Central Visayas (1,487); and Western Visayas (1,482).<\/p>\n<p>The number of dengue deaths was also lower this year with only a total of 136 compared to the same period last year wherein a total of 180 dengue deaths were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Calabarzon has the most number of deaths with a total of 29; followed by Metro Manila with 17; Western Visayas with 14; Northern Mindanao with 13; and Central Visayas and Central Luzon with 11 each.<\/p>\n<p>Majority of the dengue cases occurred among the 10-14 years old age group with 6,498 cases comprising 25 percent.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the reported cases occurred among males totaling 13,951 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Health (DOH) has recorded over 26,000 dengue cases nationwide in the first three months of 2018 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":157029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1763,3693,51365],"class_list":["post-165265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-dengue","tag-department-of-health-2","tag-epidemiology-bureau-public-health-surveillance-division","mauthors-leilani-junio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}