Philippines declares national alert after 456 dengue deaths
Published on: Thursday 18 July 2019
Patients with dengue fever resting under mosquito nets in a gym in Maasin, a town in the Philippine province of Iloilo, yesterday. On Monday, the Philippine Department of Health issued a national alert to warn of an outbreak of dengue fever, with more than 106,630 cases recorded in the first half of this year and 456 deaths - most of them children under five. The outbreak is
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