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QUEZON CITY, PIA- To protect Filipino consumers, the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) has issued a temporary ban on poultry meat and eggs coming from the US’s Oregon State, and Haifa, Israel, the agency announced over the weekend. “The Philippine government put a temporary ban on the import of domestic and wild birds and their products coming from Oregon, USA, as a precautionary measure against Avian Flu,” DA Secretary Proceso Alcala said in a statement, […]
MANILA, PIA- The government intensifies the monitoring of airports, seaports and other points of entry to prevent the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the country, the Palace said on Sunday. In a radio interview, Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. of the Presidential Communications Operations Office said that based on the latest reports of the Department of Health (DOH) there is only one confirmed case of MERS-CoV in the country–the Filipino nurse who […]
An environmental group warned the public against the use of beauty products, in particular whitening products, which contain mercury.
According to the Department of Health, eleven people who were in contact with the Filpina nurse who tested positive for MERS-COV, exhibited symptoms of the said virus.
Childhood cancer in the Philippines recorded a higher survival rate as several programs were launched to help kids with this dreaded disease.
President Aquino asked the Department of Health (DOH) to exert all efforts to halt the spread of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the country.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) is now searching for those responsible for the uploading of the viral video of a Special Action Force (SAF) commando being brutally killed in the social media.
Five of the passengers in the Saudia flight carrying the Filipina nurse with MERS-CoV were tested negative of the said virus.
The Department of Health (DOH) is valiantly locating passengers of the Saudia flight which carried the Filipina nurse who was confirmed positive of the MERS-CoV.
According to Department of Health (DOH) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Filipina nurse that tested positive for MERS-CoV is already in stable condition.
Due to the first confirmed case of the deadly MERS-CoV being recorded in the Philippines, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) implemented stricter quarantine measures especially regarding passengers from the Middle East.
MANILA, PIA- President Benigno S Aquino III has directed Acting Health Secretary Janette Garin to carry out the necessary preventive measures after a nurse from Saudi Arabia tested positive for MERS-CoV and was admitted to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) for treatment, the Palace has said. “Contact tracing is being done to locate fellow passengers of the patient who travelled from Saudi Arabia to Manila last week,” Communication Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. said […]
