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(Eagle News) — The Department of Agriculture on Tuesday lifted the ban on the transport of poultry products from Luzon, to Visayas and Mindanao. The agriculture department had imposed the ban after it declared a bird flu outbreak in San Luis, Pampanga. The ban remained in place after the department declared a bird flu outbreak in two towns in Nueva Ecija days after.
(Eagle News) — The two poultry workers from Pampanga who exhibited flu symptoms have tested negative for bird flu. In a radio interview on Wednesday, Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial said based on the results of the test done by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, the poultry workers from San Luis where a bird flu outbreak was declared this week had influenza type B, or human influenza, instead. Influenza type A is bird flu, while […]
(Eagle News)– Two inmates of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) have died from a diarrhea outbreak in the penitentiary, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) said in an advisory Thursday (June 1). The victims were identified as Virgilio Sabado, 62, and Sabas Lastimoso, 67. “There are now 1,212 diarrhea cases in Bilibid. Two deaths as of today,” the advisory said. According to a report from the Department of Health (DOH), Sabado and Lastimoso died due to dehydration and […]
SANAA, Yemen (AFP) – Authorities in Sanaa, which is controlled by Shiite rebels, have declared a state of emergency over a deadly outbreak of cholera that has spread rapidly in the Yemeni capital. The Huthi-run health ministry said in a statement carried overnight by the rebels’ Saba news agency that cases of cholera had worsened and that it was “unable to contain this disaster.” It launched an appeal for help from international humanitarian organizations to deal with […]
