Category: Health
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US investigates latest case of a rare tropical disease
U.S. health officials are investigating the latest fatal case of a rare tropical disease typically found in South Asia. The unidentified person, who died last month in Georgia, was the fourth U.S. case this year of melioidosis caused by a bacteria that lives in soil and water, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said…
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NCR, other COVID ‘hotspots’ to get vaccine priority
No Filipino will be left out in the government’s vaccination program against the coronavirus disease, President Duterte assured the nation Tuesday as the country’s cases of infections fueled by the Delta variant continued to soar. The government however will give priority vaccine access to the “hotspots” or areas with high coronavirus transmission given the country’s…
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Delta surge to kill thousands
WARNING that a surge caused by the Delta variant may kill thousands, the independent OCTA Research group on Wednesday proposed two weeks of hard lockdown. It said the lockdown would prevent a “catastrophic” spike. OCTA founder Professor Ranjit Rye said the government should learn from the surge that happened in March and April that was…
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Delta variant 97% more transmissible
An infectious disease expert on Wednesday, July 21, said the Delta variant is 97 percent transmissible than the original lineage. During a virtual Palace briefing, Dr. Rontgene Solante, who heads the adult infectious diseases unit at San Lazaro hospital in Manila, said the viral load in the Delta variant is estimated to be 1,260 times…
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8 Delta patients who got well test positive again
EIGHT Filipinos who supposedly recovered from the more contagious Delta coronavirus variant from India have tested positive again, Philippine health authorities said on Tuesday. The cases now remain active, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario S. Vergeire told a virtual news briefing. The patients, who completed a 14-day quarantine, were required to undergo another test, she said.…
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Seniors priority for J&J Janssen jabs
The Department of Health (DOH) said the Janssen vaccines of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) should be administered exclusively to the elderly population, as they “continue to be at risk of severe COVID-19 or hospitalization.” The country faces the threat of a surge of the more contagious Delta variant of the novel coronavirus since the DOH…
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Jabs could ease Delta-driven surge
OCTA Research on Sunday said the possible surge of new Covid-19 cases in the country could be as severe as the one last March, but it could be mitigated if the pace of vaccination is stepped up. The surge could be worse than the one in March to April because the Delta variant is 60…
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DOH logs 5,916 new COVID-19 case
The country recorded on Sunday 5,916 more coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, the Department of Health (DOH) said. This pushed the country’s total case count to 1,473,025, of which, 49,701 cases are still being treated. “Ten duplicates were removed from the total case count. Of these, six are recoveries,” the DOH said. Of the active cases,…
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Pope Francis ‘had breakfast and walked’ after operation
Pope Francis, 84, on Tuesday had breakfast and got up to walk, two days after undergoing surgery for an inflamed large colon, the Vatican announced. “His Holiness Pope Francis rested well during the night,” spokesman Matteo Bruni said in an update following Sunday’s operation. “This morning he had breakfast, he read some newspapers and got…
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DOST’s expert panel won’t recommend halt of Pfizer
The country’s vaccine expert panel (VEP) will not recommend to the government to stop the vaccination using the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines amid the more than 1,200 cases of myocarditis or heart inflammation recorded in the United States among young adults and adolescents after the inoculation of the US-made jabs. VEP chair Dr. Nina Gloriani…