DOH-7 probes ‘measles’ cases in Bohol, Cebu

THE Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit in Central Visayas is looking into reports of patients showing symptoms of measles in Bohol and Cebu.

RESU-7 is closely monitoring this following a measles outbreak in Luzon.

Rennan Cimafranca, chief of RESU-7 to the Dept. of Health, said that his team visited Loon, Bohol late December last year and took samples from 12 patients for laboratory tests.

Last week, the team returned to Loon after they learned that 30 more patients from another barangay showed symptoms of suspected measles.

Cimafranca is still waiting for the release of laboratory results due this week.

He said there is a possibility that patients are not suffering from measles but from Chikungunya, a disease coming from aedes mosquito, which results in similar symptoms as measles./Correspondent Carine M. Asutilla