BACOLOD CITY, Philippines — The Bacolod City Health Office urged residents once more to “search (for) and destroy” mosquito breeding places after recording an 84.5 percent spike in dengue cases from January to July.
CHO records showed that as of July 8, 535 cases, including five children who died, were recorded compared to only 290 and two children dead during the same period last year.
Noting the heavy rains and accumulation of stagnant in the past two weeks, Dr. Grace Tan, who heads the CHO’s Environment Sanitation Division, said, “Our advocacy now is searching and destroying the breeding grounds of mosquitoes.”
The dengue virus is most commonly transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
These include a 10-year-old boy in Barangay Sum-ag, five-year-old boy in Barangay Singcang-Airport, an eight-year-old boy in Barangay Granada, a two-year-old boy in Barangay 14, and a 12-year-old in Barangay Handumanan.
The Bacolod barangays with the most dengue cases this year so far are Vista Alegre, with 62; Mansilingan, 52; Granada, 42; Handumanan, 36; Mandalagan, 33; Villamonte, 31; Estefania and Banago, 28 each; Alijis, 27; and Taculing, 26.