Dengue cases down by 80.61% in Mis. Occ.

Tuesday 5th of June 2012

OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, June 5 (PIA) -- While the number of dengue cases in Region 10 went up to 36.74 percent during the period January 1 to June 1, this year, the dengue cases in Misamis Occidental went down by 80.61 percent during the same period.

This data is shown in the 2012 Dengue Morbidity Report for the 22nd Week, submitted by Dr. David Mendoza, Head of the Regional Epidemiology, Surveillance and Disaster Response Unit (RESDRU) of the Department of Health-Center for Health Development, region 10 (DOH-CHD-10).

“Based on the yearly trending, however, we will be expecting more cases of dengue this year compared to last year,” Mendoza said.

Thus, the local government units should be strengthening their anti-dengue campaign to reduce, if not eliminate, the incidence of the dengue occurrence in their areas, Mendoza said.

Meanwhile, a total of 1,109 dengue cases were admitted to different sentinel hospitals in Northern Mindanao, from January 1 to June 1, 2012, higher by 36.74 percent compared to 811 cases in the same period last year.

Ages of dengue cases ranged from less than a month to 90 years old with 55 percent males and two deaths with a case fatality rate of 0.18 percent.

Among the age groups, those with the age range of below 5-14 years of age had the highest CFR of 0.42 percent.

Meanwhile, a total of 38 dengue cases were noted in Misamis Occidental, lower by 80.61 percent compared to the 196 dengue cases noted in the province during the same period in 2011.

Mendoza’s report also show the same observation in Mis. Occ.’s three cities, namely Tangub, from 53 to four cases or down by 92.45 percent, Ozamiz from 67 to 13 cases or down by 80.60 percent, and Oroquieta City, from 17 to eight cases or down by 52.94 percent.

Most of the cases were from the following provinces: Misamis Oriental 864 cases or 77.80 percent, Bukidnon, 116 cases or 10.5 percent, Lanao del Norte, 88 cases or 7.90 percent, Misamis Occidental, 38 cases or 3.40 percent and Camiguin, three (3) cases or 0.30 percent.

Among the region’s nine cities, Cagayan de Oro has the highest number of 595 cases or 54.10 percent, followed by Iligan, 59 cases or 5.30 percent, and Gingoog 33 cases or 3.0 percent.

The other cities registered the following number of dengue cases: Valencia, 26 cases or 2.34 percent, Ozamiz, 13 cases or 1.17 percent, El Salvador, 9 cases or 0.81 percent, Malaybalay and Oroquieta, eight cases or 0.72 percent each, and lowest in Tangub with only four cases or 0.36 percent.

In terms of increase compared to the same period last year, Bukidnon registered the highest increase of 213.51 percent, followed by Misamis Oriental, 117.08 percent, while the dengue cases in Camiguin went down by 80 percent, Misamis Occidental, down by 80.61
percent, and Lano del Norte, also down by 46.67 percent.

As to the cities, Valencia posted the highest increase of 2,500 percent, followed by Malaybalay, 166.67 percent, Cagayan de Oro, 123.68 percent, and Gingoog, 120 percent.

The other cities posted declines in the number of dengue cases: Tangub, down by 92.45 percent, Ozamiz, down by 80.60 percent, Oroquieta, down by 52.94 percent, Iligan, down by 46.24 percent, while El Salvador, remained the same as the last monitoring week.
On the other hand, Mendoza said the cluster of three or more dengue cases were noted during the past four weeks in 16 barangays of Cagayan de Oro City: Balulang, Bugo, Bulua, Camaman-an, Carmen, Cugman, Gusa, Iponan, Kauswagan, Lapasan, Lumbia, Macasandig, Nazareth, Patag, Puerto, and Puntod.

Also noted with the same situation were Barangay Poblacion, Alubijid, Barra, Opol and Imelda, Villanueva, all of Misamis Oriental and Agusan Canyon, Manolo Fortich, Poblacion, Valencia City in Bukidnon and Poblacion and Palao, Iligan City, Mendoza added. (PIA-10 Mis. Occ.)