PDRRMO Isabela welcomes underwhelming impact of Kristine in hitting the province

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00:00Good Thursday afternoon, I'm Queen Zalphardelia to bring you PTV News Now and tops in our

00:10stories at the hour.

00:12Under the cover of darkness and half past midnight earlier today, severe tropical storm

00:17Christine finally touches down on terra firma in northeastern Luzon in the province of Isabela.

00:26Strangely, unfortunately enough, the winds she packed of 95 km per hour speed substantially

00:32weakened when she slammed into the high Sierras of the Sierra Madre mountain range.

00:37Likewise, the anticipated massive rainfall was much, much less, hence so little sightings

00:43of waves deep or evenly high flooding in the province and therefore way lower number of

00:49evacuations.

00:50Then again, Isabela's disaster response teams were so well prepared in advance for

00:55a much, much worse impact but gladly took what Christine gave them.

01:01PDRRMO Officer-Attorney Constante Ferrando Jr. in a TV interview at noon today cited

01:06the Sierra Madre mountain range in defending Christine's deadly winds and rainfall and

01:12bewailed the mass floodings in the province of Camarines Sur and Albay.

01:16Likewise, he hinted of the provincial government of Isabela mulling to help or send unutilized

01:22relief items or disaster response tools and equipment to the Camarines Sur and Albay

01:28to aid in mitigating Christine damage in the two provinces.

01:34The Paul Barriere call Malek is clear on both vying and vows to hold candidates or their

01:40supporters into account if they are caught.

01:43In the US, the Department of Justice just sent Elon Musk, the world's richest man and

01:49avid Donald Trump supporter, for the November 2024 presidential elections a letter warning

01:55him his latest gimmick on the stump for Donald Trump could likely be in violation of federal

02:01election laws.

02:03Over the weekend, Elon Musk could spend the last few weeks in Pennsylvania campaigning

02:08for Trump, kick off his super PACs gimmick to register more voters for November 5 polls

02:15With an offer they could not refuse, a chance at winning a million dollars.

02:20And true to his word, Musk handed out two $1 million checks to two lucky winners in

02:26Pennsylvania over the weekend.

02:29And Musk says he will hand out more checks equal to the remaining days before voting

02:34day on November 5.

02:36In South Africa and nearby countries in the region, getting much-needed anti-venom to

02:43treat lethal snakebites are a challenge.

02:46Hence a move by scientists to lower prices in producing, distributing, or buying anti-venom

02:52as VOA Kate Marlett reports from Johannesburg.

02:56It's summer in Southern Africa.

03:00That means snakebite season.

03:02Saka Von Veeck from the African Snakebite Institute conducts trainings like this one

03:07on how to handle venomous snakes like these cobras.

03:11They get more active.

03:12They start moving around.

03:13And we do see an increased number of bites as it starts warming up.

03:19In Southern Africa, it's hard to find trustworthy statistics on the number of bites and deaths

03:23annually due to a lack of reporting.

03:26One of the things about rural communities, particularly people who can't afford modern

03:30medical care, is that their first port of call is not the doctor's surgery, but the

03:36traditional healer.

03:38And so those cases never get collected by health statisticians anyway.

03:44Even if people don't die, snakebites can leave them with permanent disabilities because they

03:49cause tissue damage.

03:50Either they lose a lot of function in the limbs, for instance legs, they can't walk,

03:55they lose a lot of muscle tissue in their arms, they can't farm or they can't work,

04:00they can't provide for their families.

04:01But even when people do manage to get from the rural areas to a hospital in time, there

04:06are challenges.

04:08Snakebite venom can cost thousands of dollars.

04:11Sometimes there are shortages because of low levels of production.

04:15It's been made the same way for over a century.

04:18Horses are injected with small amounts of venom.

04:21Then their blood plasma, which has produced immunity, is made into an anti-venom product

04:26that is injected into snakebite victims.

04:29But there are dangers that come with it, including allergic reactions and possible anaphylactic

04:34shock.

04:35Everybody has to be standing by with accessory medicines like adrenaline or something to

04:39make sure that you survive the treatment.

04:43Kurt Wibmer is a South African scientist who is researching a new, more modern way of creating

04:48anti-venom.

04:49So what we do is we go to those same producers of anti-venom into the horses and look for

04:55the bits of DNA that can make these super antibodies, these super anti-venom products.

05:01And then we take those DNA and we clone them in the lab and we then improve them.

05:07Without the horses, the product is safer and more uniform.

05:10It will take many years to go from the lab to the clinic, but Wibmer expects the anti-venom

05:15would cost only a fraction of the price.

05:18Kate Bartlett, VOA News, Johannesburg, South Africa.

05:24And that's a wrap for this afternoon.

05:26Join us again later on the Evening Breaking Stories.

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