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"Our worry here is we are already losing an unacceptably high number of women and young girls to pregnancy-related complications. And the menace posed by A(H1N1), if left unchecked via adequate prevention, monitoring and treatment, could aggravate the problem," Taliño-Mendoza said in a statement e-mailed to media outfits.

The A(H1N1) threat aside, Taliño-Mendoza said 14 out of every 100 deaths among Filipino women are already due to pregnancy or childbirth complications, with 162 mothers dying out of every 10,000 births.

The WHO has warned that "pregnant women, particularly in the second and third trimesters, are at higher risk of falling seriously ill or dying from the virus."

The Department of Health on Friday warned that a more virulent strain of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus could hit the country even as experts search for a vaccine to defeat the virus.
[...] DOH records show 28 people infected with A(H1N1) have died in the country. Nearly 5,000 have been infected though more than 96 percent of the cases have fully recovered.

Swine flu detected among war-displaced in South
Some cases of swine flu have been reported among people displaced by conflict and flooding in Mindanao, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
"We are...seeing reported cases of (A)H1N1 among the IDP (internally displaced persons) communities there," Paul Garwood, spokesman for the WHO, said.
Garwood could not specify the number of A(H1N1) infections among the 400,000 displaced people in the region, but said there were "several."

MANILA, Philippines—The number of fatalities in the Philippines due to the Influenza A(H1N1) virus has reached 28 as of Sept. 3, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said Sunday, citing a report from the Stockholm, Sweden-based European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

In a statement, TUCP secretary general Ernesto Herrera said the ECDC’s daily update on the A(H1N1) pandemic as of Sept. 3 stated that “20 new fatal cases have been reported in the Philippines since the country last accounted for only eight deaths on July 29.”

BAGUIO CITY — The Cordillera office of the Center for Health Development (CHD) has reported that the number of deaths related to the dreaded Influenza A (H1N1) virus in the Cordillera has risen to 8.

Despite the death toll rise, Dr. Myrna Cabotaje, CHD-CAR regional director, said there is a slowdown in the number of individuals being infected by the swine flu virus. However, she warned the public not to be complacent in the coming months.

While Cabotaje refused to divulge further details on the latest A (H1N1)-related deaths in the region, she said that all the eight victims had other illnesses that were reportedly aggravated by the dreaded swine flu virus.

Records show that Cordillera has 522 influenza-like illnesses since May 2009, 259 cases (52 percent) of which have been confirmed through laboratory tests to be cases of Influenza A (H1N1) virus.

Cabotaje said Apayao remains as the only province in the region with no confirmed A (H1N1) case although it has dozens of reported influenza-like illnesses over the past several months.

She disclosed the most number of A (H1N1)-related deaths was reported in July with 7, which included several children and senior citizens.

Huzhou Online News Philippine Health Minister Francisco Kedu Kai 26, said this year 4 to 10 months, the Philippines, the number of infected with influenza A H1N1 influenza reached 5212, of whom 30 people died.

Health department warns recurrence of A(H1N1)
THE Department of Health (DOH) alerts the public for the possible recurrence of A(H1N1) or human flu due to the cold weather this year.

However, DOH Secretary Francisco Duque said the possibility of mass transmission is nil because unlike in Western countries where heavy snowfall is recorded, the cold weather here might just have subtle effects to people susceptible to acquiring the influenza virus.

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In the Philippines though, Influenza A showed a low fatality ratio. Recovery rate is also high at 99 percent.

No new cases have been recorded as of November, the secretary reported.

Since the first case in April, 5,000 cases with positive human flu have been reported, with 32 deaths.

“The threat is still there, but unlike countries that has winter, the Philippines is the least threatened,” Duque said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) earlier warned of a second wave of A (H1N1) especially in countries that is experiencing winter.

A(H1N1) is a new disease discovered when hogs in the USA died due to swine flu.

The virus mutated into the human flu. As of 27 December 2009, worldwide more than 208 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including at least 12,220 deaths, according to WHO website. (Rimaliza Opiña/Sunnex)

Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on January 3, 2010.

COTABATO CITY – Pneumonia has claimed three deaths since January, and continued to be on top of the list of respiratory illnesses that has afflicted Cotabateños for the fist quarter of this year.

Cotabato City Health Office (CHO) reported over the weekend that a total of 582 pneumonia cases with three deaths were recorded since January this year.

“Those who died are elders aged 50-years-old and above,” Imraida I. Malang, CHO surveillance coordinator, said.

Malang said that of the total of those afflicted, 333 were female and 249 male.

While other diseases affecting Cotabateños are diarrhea, hypertension, typhoid fever, and measles.

Malang said that diarrhea cases alone reached 505 cases from January to March this year.

“Hypertension registered 21 deaths, particularly adults aged 55-years-old and above,” she said.

Typhoid fever, meanwhile, chalked a total of 111 cases while measles totaled 27 cases.

Malang also noted that dengue cases increased by at least 20 percent during the first quarter this year with 73 cases compared to 49 cases recorded during the last quarter of last year.

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