{"id":860,"date":"2014-01-23T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T00:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=860"},"modified":"2014-03-04T05:12:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:12:48","slug":"measles-problem-now-stabilized-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/23\/measles-problem-now-stabilized-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles problem, now stabilized&#8212;DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1496967_767982883212966_197864431_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-861\" alt=\"1496967_767982883212966_197864431_n\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1496967_767982883212966_197864431_n-198x300.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook Page of DOH<\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014The Department of Health (DOH) said that there\u2019s no more reason for the public to worry about measles outbreak in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on our mathematical projections, the cases have already stabilized. [The number of cases] hasn\u2019t shot up unlike in November and December, which is good,\u201d said Health Undersecretary Ted Herbosa.<\/p>\n<p>From the period of Jan. 1 to 11, 2014, DOH\u2019s disease surveillance report listed the following statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1,163 suspected measles cases<\/li>\n<li>55 or 4.7 percent were classified as laboratory confirmed<\/li>\n<li>Metro Manila has the most number of confirmed cases with 47 percent, followed by Calabarzon 42 percent; and Central Luzon with 11 percent<\/li>\n<li>Those who were diagnosed with confirmed measles have age range of 1 month to 35 years old<\/li>\n<li>Fifty-five percent were males<\/li>\n<li>21 percent were vaccinated against measles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In line with its goals, the DOH made an appeal to parents to bring their children to health centers until Feb. 3.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of DOH MANILA, Philippines\u2014The Department of Health (DOH) said that there\u2019s no more reason for the public &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ph","mauthors-katherine-marfal-teves","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}