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MANILA – Three new local transmission cases of Zika virus infection were confirmed by the Department of Health (DOH) yesterday.
Health secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial said two were in Iloilo City and one in Antipolo City.
“We now have a total of 15 confirmed cases of Zika virus out of 264 suspected cases reported nationwide from Jan. 1 to Oct. 4, 2016,” she said.
There was no pregnant woman among the three new cases, thus maintaining the number of pregnant woman that got sick with Zika in the country to just one.
Ubial said out of the 15 confirmed Zika cases, 12 were from Iloilo, one from Cebu, one from Muntinlupa City and one from Antipolo City.
She did not say from which part of Iloilo the two new cases were from. The previous cases were in from Barangay Magsaysay, La Paz, Iloilo City; Avaneña Street, Molo, Iloilo City; Oton, Iloilo; Barangay Benedicto, Jaro, Iloilo City; Barangay San Juan, Molo; and barangays Santa Cruz and Santo Domingo in Arevalo, Iloilo City.
Antipolo was previously not on the list of areas with confirmed Zika cases.
Zika is a milder infection compared to dengue, said Ubial. Most of the confirmed Zika cases did not require hospitalization and confinement.
Patients tested with the virus were just managed at home, said Ubial. All of them displayed symptoms such as rashes, fever and joint pains.
The Zika cases were confirmed through tests conducted on the blood and urine samples of the suspected cases at DOH’s Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
Since the cases were classified as local transmission and the vector Aedis egypti mosquito as one of the causes, the DOH Chief repeated the call to the public to practice the 4S campaign.
The campaign means: search and destroy, use self-protection measures, seek early consultation for fevers lasting more than two days, and say yes to fogging when there is an impending outbreak.
“This is a global concern. While we do not want the people to panic, we should not be complacent,” said Ubial. (PNA)
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