{"id":212572,"date":"2019-05-03T03:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=212572"},"modified":"2019-05-03T03:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:22:21","slug":"recent-dengue-outbreaks-not-dengvaxia-related-duque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/03\/recent-dengue-outbreaks-not-dengvaxia-related-duque\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent dengue outbreaks not Dengvaxia-related: Duque"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_212575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212575\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img20190430150148.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-212575\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img20190430150148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img20190430150148.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img20190430150148-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-212575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (PNA photo by Ma. Teresa Montemayor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Tuesday the recent dengue outbreaks in certain regions nationwide are not related to the Dengvaxia issue.<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing on World Immunization Week in Manila City, Duque said dengue is a phenomenon that peaks every three to five years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cases peak and the last one I think is 2016. I think that was why the push for anti-dengue vaccine was made by the previous administration. This is proceeding from historical data, the epidemiology bureau says, it peaks between 200,000 to 250,000 cases,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duque added there is still no cure for the disease but a new vaccine is being developed by a global manufacturing pharmaceutical company against the four strains of the dengue virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And so we&#8217;re awaiting of the results of the clinical trials for this. There are 64, 695 cases until April 19, 2019 compared to 33,813 for the same reporting period in 2018. That&#8217;s about twice as much as we had last year,&#8221; he said, noting that prevention through the 4S strategy is still the best intervention for the diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH&#8217;s 4S strategy includes Search and destroy mosquito-breeding sites; Self-protection measures like wearing long pants and long-sleeved shirts and daily use of mosquito repellent; Seek early consultation; and Support fogging or spraying only in hotspot areas where increase in cases is registered for two consecutive weeks to prevent an impending outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Tuesday the recent dengue outbreaks in certain regions nationwide are not related &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":212575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","mauthors-ma-teresa-montemayor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212572","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212576,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212572\/revisions\/212576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}