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COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines (4 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Disease outbreaks in the Philippines" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Mpox (/ ˈ ɛ m p ɒ k s /, EM-poks; formerly known as monkeypox) [4] is an infectious viral disease that can occur in humans and other animals. Symptoms include a rash that forms blisters and then crusts over, fever, and swollen lymph nodes. The illness is usually mild, and most infected individuals recover within a few weeks without treatment.
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The 2019–2021 polio outbreak in the Philippines was an epidemic. For the previous 19 years, the Philippines was free of any polio -related diseases. On September 14, 2019, the disease began to resurface through a positive test result done to a 3-year-old girl from Mindanao .
The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines declared a measles outbreak in Metro Manila due to a 550% increase in the number of patients from January 1 to February 6, 2019, compared to figures of the equivalent period from 2018. [1] Outbreaks were also officially declared in Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Western Visayas, Central Visayas.
The Philippines has among the highest rates of species discovery in the world with 16 new species of mammal discovered in the last ten years. Because of this, the degree of endemism in the Philippines has risen and will likely continue to rise. [3] Some of the smallest and largest animals and plants are found in the Philippines.
Based on data from the CDC, there about 3.2 million people infected with hepatitis C, a liver disease, in the United States -- and as many as 75% of those people have no clue they carry the ...
Autoinfection is when the offspring produced by adults can reinfest the same host, allowing the infestation to multiply within a single host animal. Both oviparous (egg-laying) and larviparous (giving birth to active larvae) adult female C. philippinensis were found in Mongolian gerbils and some birds. The experimentally infested monkeys never ...