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(Eagle News) — The World Health Organization and UNICEF have officially declared an end to the polio outbreak in the Philippines. In a joint statement, the two international bodies commended the Department of Health, partners and civil society for the “comprehensive outbreak response actions including intensified immunization and surveillance activities in affected areas of the country” that resulted in the virus not being detected in a child or in the environment in the past 16 […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health has recorded four more polio cases in the country, bringing the number of cases since an outbreak was declared in September 2019 to 16. The DOH said of the four, two were males aged two and three from Maguindanao. One was a two-year-old male from Sultan Kudarat and the other a three-year-old male from Quezon City. The DOH said the children experienced fever, diarrhea, muscle pain, asymmetric ascending […]
