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‘Test rivers in Cebu City for poliovirus’

By Mary Ruth Malinao | February 19, 2020 - 12:00am

Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella has ordered the Cebu City Health Department (CHD) to conduct water testing in its rivers after Butuanon River in Mandaue City tested positive for poliovirus.

Nation

After poliovirus found in Butuanon: 3 rivers off limits

By Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon | February 17, 2020 - 12:00am

Mandaue City will declare three of its rivers – Butuanon, Mahiga, and Tipolo – including the tributaries, off...

Cebu News

Cebu river samples test positive for poliovirus — DOH

By Franco Luna | February 16, 2020 - 1:39pm

There is, as of this writing, no known cure for the virus, which can cause paralysis and even death in extreme case...

Nation

DOH: Poliovirus detected from 26 environmental samples

By Gaea Katreena Cabico | November 27, 2019 - 5:18pm

In a statement, the Department of Health confirmed that 26 out of the 142 samples collected have tested positive for...

Headlines

Confirmed polio cases in Philippines rise to 8

November 25, 2019 - 4:02pm

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said the child was unvaccinated.

Headlines

WHO: Strain of wild poliovirus eradicated

October 25, 2019 - 1:41pm

The last confirmed case of WPV3 was recorded in northern Nigeria in 2012. 

World

EDITORIAL - A killer disease resurfaces

September 22, 2019 - 12:00am

Filipino children have been getting polio vaccines for about half a century.

Opinion

Poliovirus

By Edith R. Regalado | September 22, 2019 - 12:00am

NAGING positibo sa poliovirus ang water sample mula sa Davao River ayon sa Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) pagkatapos nitong magsagawa ng sampling noong Agosto 22.

True Confessions

Polio reemerges in Philippines 19 years after it was eradicated

By Gaea Katreena Cabico | September 19, 2019 - 3:44pm

There is a reemergence of the highly contagious polio in the Philippines nearly two decades after the country was declared...

Headlines

Understanding and preventing polio

By Dr. Rebecca Castillo and Gener Maulit | February 11, 2002 - 12:00am

The Charter Bureau The summer season is fast approaching, a season very much anticipated by vacationers and sun-worshippers. However, health experts worldwide are busier during this season because various dreaded...

Science and Environment