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Dr. Jerna May-as, chief of the DOH’s regional epidemiology and surveillance unit, told The STAR that they are sending a task force which, together with provincial and rural health personnel, will look into the hepatitis A cases in Tago town.


Tago, some eight kilometers away from this capital town, is the hometown of Elsie Lacia Milby, mother of Pinoy Big Brother housemate Sam Milby.


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Thirty children died after eating the merienda. And recess will never be the same again.


According to the Plant Resources of Southeast Asia (PROSEA), a cassava’s tubers (roots) and leaves contain hydrocyanic acid (HCN).


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Hepa A outbreak eyed in Surigao town

By Ben Serrano | March 15, 2006 - 12:00am

BISLIG CITY — The Department of Health (DOH) is looking into a possible hepatitis A outbreak in Tago, Surigao del Sur where 31 cases have been reported. Dr. Jerna May-as, chief of the DOH’s regional epidemiology...

Nation

What makes cassava poisonous?

By Rudy Fernandez and Sheila Crisostomo | March 11, 2005 - 12:00am

Just how lethal can a native delicacy long enjoyed by Filipinos be? Toxic experts are eyeing cyanide as the likely cause of the poisoning of at least 110 mostly grade-school children in Bohol after they ate tasty...

News Commentary

Payatas food poisoning

By Rainier Allan Ronda | February 6, 2002 - 12:00am

A two-year-old girl died while 31 others, all living in a scavengers’ community inside the Payatas dumpsite in Quezon City, were taken to the hospital after they partook of a donated plastic bag full of spoiled...

Metro