MANILA, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- The number of dengue cases in the Philippines in the first eight months of this year has surged more than 188,000 with 807 deaths, the Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines said on Tuesday. The DOH has tallied 188,562 dengue cases from Jan. 1 to...
Health Secretary Francisco Duque told reporters the University of the Philippines-run Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) will assemble a panel of medical experts and pathologists to look into the deaths of three vaccinated children. "UP-PGH will be providing an independent review and assessment on...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine health officials say the deaths of three children inoculated with a Sanofi Pasteur dengue vaccine may have "causal association" to the inoculation and two of the children may have died because the vaccine failed.
(Du et al., 2021). However, it is estimated that about 400 million cases of DENV infections occur annually in more than 120 countries and territories with ≈ 20,000 deaths (Messina et al., 2019).Dengueinfection is usually asymptomatic but some cases show diverse clinical symptoms that range...
The Philippine government said Friday it would file criminal charges against six officials of the French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur over the deaths of children injected with its Dengvaxia anti-dengue vaccine. The Philippines in 2016 was the first nation to use Dengvaxia in a mass immunisation...
Philippine health officials said Friday that the deaths of three children injected with a Sanofi Pasteur dengue vaccine may have "causal association" to the inoculation, including two who may have died because the vaccine failed.
MANILA, Philippines - Health officials Thursday intensified their call to maintain clean surroundings and destroy mosquito breeding sites as dengue cases continue to climb and have now reached 116,699 cases, according to the National Epidemiology Center (NEC). The report said the figure is 143.35 pe...
1–5% of the total number of infections provokes severe illnesses that present clinically as Dengue hemorrhagic fever or Dengue shock syndrome, leading to approximately 20,000 to 30,000 deaths per year4. A major hurdle in developing a safe vaccine for Dengue has been the presence of four circu...
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Singapore: The National Environment Agency's National Dengue Prevention Campaign educates the public about reducing mosquito habitats. Philippines: The Department of Health's 2022 campaign in Soccsksargen was launched to counteract rising dengue cases. ...