Dengue cases may reach 20,000 | The Philippine Star >> News >> Headlines: "A report from the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) showed that from Jan. 1 to April 2, a total of 17,228 individuals have contracted dengue.
The figure is 0.33 percent higher than the 17,172 cases recorded during the same period in 2010.
However, Dr. Lyndon Lee Suy, DOH program manager for Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases, said the number of dengue cases by the week is on the decline.
“If you look at the figure (by the weeks), it’s going down,” he said. “That can be expected because it is summer. But the total figure in general is high.”
Lee Suy said the DOH is hopeful that the public would take advantage of summer to prepare for expected further increase in dengue cases during the rainy days.
The public should start getting rid of used tires, empty cans and bottle caps that can hold water, which can become breeding sites of dengue-causing mosquitoes, he added."
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