Some 100 athletes, coaches and officials of the Naga City delegation to Palarong Bicol were stricken by diarrhea days before the start of the games set on Feb. 23-28 at Catanduanes Athletic Complex here.
Purify or boil water, the Department of Health advised Filipinos in flooded areas to avoid outbreaks of diarrhea.
AT least 115 cases of diarrhea hit a barangay in Badian town, southern Cebu in the last four days.
Contaminated water killed three persons and struck ill dozens of other residents of several villages in two provinces where people relied heavily on deep wells for water.
One child was dead in an increasing number of diarrhea cases in two zones in a village in Polilio Island, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management and Council said Monday.
Contaminated water drawn from a river caused a diarrhea outbreak in hinterland villages in Salvador town in Lanao del Norte, which has so far
killed seven people, including four infants.
A lawyer of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday said her camp would be checking out the food being served to the Pampanga congresswoman at the St. Luke’s Medical Center as the alleged assassination plot against her may very well involve poisoning her.
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—A sharp increase in the number of diarrhea cases in at least six flooded villages in Masantol, Pampanga, has been contained, the chief of the provincial health office (PHO) said on Tuesday. The 50 cases reported on Friday last week dropped to less than 10 in the villages of Sapang Kawayan, Sagrada [...]
Three children died while about 200 people fell ill due to diarrhea in the village of Tinoto in Maasim, Sarangani, the town’s health office said Tuesday.
The Department of Health in Central Visayas is trying to find the source of diarrhea that downed at least 80 dancers from Toledo City, who performed in the Pasigarbo Festival on Monday. Samples of food and water which the dancers ahd for breakfast were sent to the Department of Science and Technology in Central Visayas [...]
At least 39 persons in a village of Borongan City were downed by diarrhea that could have been caused by contaminated water since more than a week ago.
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte – At least 39 persons in a village of Borongan City were downed by diarrhea that could have been caused by contaminated water since more than a week ago. Borongan City Mayor Fe Abunda said that based on the initial information she received, the diarrhea outbreak was first monitored in Barangay (village) [...]
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – A new outbreak of diarrhea has stricken 188 people in Isabela City in Basilan from May 1 to 23, the city’s health officer said. Dr. Rafael Cabug said that 164 of those stricken were hospitalized while the rest received treatment as outpatients. It was the second diarrhea outbreak in Isabela City. [...]
