Monday, June 8, 2009

46 cases of Influenza A(H1N1) in the phiippines

According to the Secretary Duque of the Department of Health of the Philippines, the cases of swine flu that had entered the country jumps to 46 from yesterday's 39 cases. Students from 2 prestigious school in Manila had been reported as carrier of the disease.
The DOH had changed strategy instead of tracing all the contacted person of the carriers they would now give immediate medication to those people that might rise as victim of this disease. According to Duque, with this strategy only those person who needs utmost medication would be hospitalised. And any other mild cases can be treated at home. Duque is happy to inform the public that the swine flu that infiltrated the country is mild compare to other countries.
Sadly from the World Health Organizaton's report there were 73 infected countries with 25,288 infected person and death numbers rose to 139.

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