DOH comfirmed the 2 cases of Flu AH1N1 infection in Eastern Visayas. One of the infected is a 14-year-old high school student and the other one is a seaman.

The World Health Organization or WHO considered already the Swine Flu (H1N1) as pandemic. It means the new strain of the virus has been spreading through the communities in the world. The whine flu virus that has been spreading since April 2009 is identified already in 74 countries and there are almost 30,000 cases around the world and took 141 lives already.

Maasin City, Southern Leyte – The Department of Health, regional office, has declared the province of Southern Leyte as filariasis-free after the continual seven years (2000-2007) preventive annual mass treatment was completed in the entire province led by Rural Health Unit physician Dr. Francelisa I. Tan.
Dr. Noel Lumen, IPHO?s Provincial Health Officer 2 disclosed that before the DOH-RO?s aforesaid declaration, a Regional Filariasis Team has conducted another random blood sampling extractions preferably to a total of 3,000 children ages from 6 to 7 years old in various municipalities of the …