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Dengue deaths in Laguna town alarm DOH

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The Department of Health (DOH) declared yesterday a dengue outbreak at a resettlement site in Cabuyao, Laguna following the deaths of two children there.

Dr. Eric Tayag, chief of the National Epidemiology Center, said 10 dengue cases were reported in Cabuyao last month, five of them in the Southville resettlement.

There have been 261 dengue-related deaths since January. So far, the number of cases reported — 25,747 — is 16 percent lower than the 2005 figure.

In another development in Laguna, a resident of Los Baños and his two children aged 3 and 7 died while his wife and two other children aged 6 to 14 were hospitalized after they ate tahong (mussel) for lunch on Monday. — Helen Flores, Ed Amoroso and Arnell Ozaeta

CABUYAO

CHILDREN

DENGUE

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

DR. ERIC TAYAG

ED AMOROSO AND ARNELL OZAETA

HELEN FLORES

LOS BA

NATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTER

SOUTHVILLE

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