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                    [Title] => International  health agencies to study RP virus
                    [Summary] => International health agencies will assist the Philippines in determining whether a new flu strain was responsible for downing more than 2,000 students in Metro Manila in the past weeks, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.


Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said cultured throat swab samples collected from infected students are to be sent to the World Health Organization (WHO) reference laboratory in Australia.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 135708 [Title] => New flu virus eyed in outbreak [Summary] => Government health experts are trying find out if the influenza virus that downed students of seven Catholic schools in Metro Manila in recent days could have been caused by a new strain.

Meanwhile, an infectious disease expert at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) in Manila told The STAR yesterday the airborne virus seemed to have zeroed in only on Catholic schools because the latter’s classrooms were mostly air-conditioned and conducive to the spread of an airborne virus.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 94938 [Title] => 36 new HIV cases bared [Summary] =>

Thirty-six more Filipinos - 24 men and 12 women - were reported to be afflicted with the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

This brings to 1,325 the total number of Filipinos afflicted with HIV and AIDS since the dreaded disease was first diagnosed in the country in 1984.

Of the total number, 203 have died due to complications, while 441, including 16 of the new cases, now have full-blown AIDS.

Dr. Concepcion Roces, DOH-Field Epidemiology Training Program chief, said sexual intercourse remains to be the primary mode of AIDS transmission in the country. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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                    [Title] => International  health agencies to study RP virus
                    [Summary] => International health agencies will assist the Philippines in determining whether a new flu strain was responsible for downing more than 2,000 students in Metro Manila in the past weeks, the Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday.


Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said cultured throat swab samples collected from infected students are to be sent to the World Health Organization (WHO) reference laboratory in Australia.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 135708 [Title] => New flu virus eyed in outbreak [Summary] => Government health experts are trying find out if the influenza virus that downed students of seven Catholic schools in Metro Manila in recent days could have been caused by a new strain.

Meanwhile, an infectious disease expert at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) in Manila told The STAR yesterday the airborne virus seemed to have zeroed in only on Catholic schools because the latter’s classrooms were mostly air-conditioned and conducive to the spread of an airborne virus.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 94938 [Title] => 36 new HIV cases bared [Summary] =>

Thirty-six more Filipinos - 24 men and 12 women - were reported to be afflicted with the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

This brings to 1,325 the total number of Filipinos afflicted with HIV and AIDS since the dreaded disease was first diagnosed in the country in 1984.

Of the total number, 203 have died due to complications, while 441, including 16 of the new cases, now have full-blown AIDS.

Dr. Concepcion Roces, DOH-Field Epidemiology Training Program chief, said sexual intercourse remains to be the primary mode of AIDS transmission in the country. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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