Dengue claims two children in Talisay

CEBU, Philippines - Two children in Talisay City were reported to have died this year from the dengue disease.

City health officer Lino Alanzado confirmed the deaths of the two children but said they still have no information as to the victims' names, ages and addresses.

Earlier, the Department of Health 7 announced that the city has already recorded 21 dengue cases. It is not yet confirmed if in this number, the two deaths are included.

For his part, Councilor Richard Francis Aznar, city council committee chairman on Health, said the records are now with the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City where the victims were taken after suffering from fever and other symptoms of dengue.

He said they only learned that it is another dengue case based on reports from health centers, wherein victims brought there have shown symptoms of the dreaded disease.

It is not yet confirmed, but reported one of the cildren was from sitio Tabulasan, Barangay San Isidro.

Meanwhile, Aznar has already heightened his anti-dengue campaign by distributing tarpaulins to the city's public schools as guides to keep the school premises free of the dengue-carrying mosquitoes.

Also, Aznar's anti-dengue team has started its cleanup drives in all of the city's 22 barangays, believing that a clean surrounding is good prevention against dengue.

The city hall has temporarily stopped the misting operations and instead it has been using chemicals to be placed into canals and all possible breeding grounds of mosquitoes.

Still, Aznar has urged all households to clean up being "the best solution."