Dengue deaths in Laguna town alarm DOH

The Department of Health (DOH) declared yesterday a dengue outbreak at a resettlement site in Cabuyao, Laguna following the deaths of two children there.

Dr. Eric Tayag, chief of the National Epidemiology Center, said 10 dengue cases were reported in Cabuyao last month, five of them in the Southville resettlement.

There have been 261 dengue-related deaths since January. So far, the number of cases reported — 25,747 — is 16 percent lower than the 2005 figure.

In another development in Laguna, a resident of Los Baños and his two children aged 3 and 7 died while his wife and two other children aged 6 to 14 were hospitalized after they ate tahong (mussel) for lunch on Monday. — Helen Flores, Ed Amoroso and Arnell Ozaeta