Naaalarma ang Health Department sa biglang sipa ng mga kaso ng dengue sa Pilipinas ngayong umpisa pa lang ng 2025. Sa Quezon City, nagdeklara na ng dengue outbreak.
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00:00The health department is alarmed by the sudden spike in dengue cases in the Philippines,
00:04which has just started in 2025.
00:07In Quezon City, a dengue outbreak has already been declared and Darlene Clyne has been infected.
00:14She was infected with a disease of weak and no appetite.
00:18These are the first symptoms of Marines' unborn child in Barangay Batasan Hill in Quezon City.
00:24I monitored the child first to see if it was just a fever or something like UTI.
00:32But I noticed that it was always 39 or 40.
00:36It didn't really go down.
00:38After three days, Thomas also felt the same for her five-year-old child.
00:43So she was hospitalized.
00:46After a few days, they were recovered from the dengue disease.
00:50It's scary because, just like her, the dengue is deadly.
00:55It's very worrying because, of course, they are still my children.
00:59That's what I remember.
01:01Since 2025, the number of dengue cases in Quezon City has reached 1,769.
01:08Every day, there are 35 new cases in the city.
01:11More than half of the cases are between the ages of 5 and 17.
01:15Ten have died, eight of them are children.
01:20The Quezon City government is declaring a dengue outbreak.
01:24The outbreak is declared when the number of cases in a place increases to more than expected.
01:32In the past 15 years, this has been the highest number of dengue cases in the city in the first six weeks of the year.
01:40It's also unusual or not common for there to be a lot of cases now.
01:43It's probably climate change.
01:45Due to climate change, we shouldn't have rain by this time.
01:51But just the other day, it started raining heavily.
01:54Our trading sites are getting full again.
01:58So that's the reason we're seeing.
02:01The reason why at this time, our dengue case should be low.
02:06We're below the alert threshold but it's still high.
02:10According to the LGU, most of the patients who died had symptoms for three days before they were hospitalized
02:17because they thought it was just a normal fever.
02:19The average time from symptoms onset to death is five days.
02:23It's fast.
02:24Did you see that?
02:26When he had symptoms, if he didn't check up early,
02:30if he had a danger sign for five days, the child would die.
02:34Sometimes, there's a low clinical suspicion.
02:39Sometimes, they let him go home.
02:41They let him check up, bring him to the doctor, bring him to the clinic.
02:44It's just a misunderstanding that it's just considered as tonsillitis, UTI.
02:50It's not considered as dengue.
02:52Sometimes, not all patients die because of dengue.
02:58Sometimes, it happens that it's not considered as dengue.
03:02So they let him go home.
03:04When the patient goes back to the doctor, there are warning signs.
03:07That's why it's important to declare an outbreak to alert parents, schools and barangays.
03:13Quezon City will also have a cleanup drive and fogging or spraying activities.
03:17Based on the latest data from the Department of Health,
03:20there are more than 28,000 dengue cases in the country,
03:2440 percent higher than last year.
03:27It's like it's too early.
03:29Usually, we report to the WILD around June, July and August when it rains.
03:36Even though it's February, we still have reports of shearline,
03:40intertropical convergence zone, easterly.
03:43So we're following the changes in the weather.
03:47The Public Health Department is reminding people to go to the health center or hospital
03:52if they experience fever, weakness, body aches, nausea and other symptoms.
03:59It's important to be vigilant and not to ignore these diseases, especially to children.
04:05It's also important to avoid insect repellent.
04:07Always clean the surroundings and make sure there are no pests.
04:11For GMA Integrated News, Darlene Caen, Katutok, 24 Horas.