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China inflation edges up on the back of food prices

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 10 11:32 AM

China's consumer inflation edged up in July, official data showed Monday, in part due to rising food prices from flood-related disruptions and as the country continues its recovery from the coronavirus outbreak. Read more »

Avigan clinical trials to start soon, DOH says

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 08 08:14 PM

The clinical trials for Avigan will start soon in the Philippines, the Department of Health said Saturday, after the country received a supply of the anti-flu drug from Japan.   Read more »

Why the coronavirus is more likely to ‘superspread’ than the flu

Katherine J. Wu, The New York Times
Posted at Aug 08 10:44 AM

At its most intrepid, the virus can spread from a single individual to dozens of others, perhaps even a hundred or more at once, proliferating through packed crowds in what is called a superspreading event. Read more »

Makati LGU monitors poultry products from Pampanga town amid news of bird flu

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 02 04:52 PM

The local government of Makati is urging all consumers and dealers in the city to refrain from buying and selling poultry products from San Luis town in Pampanga after the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) confirmed the presence of Avian Influenza A or bird flu in said town last week. Read more »

Pagkalat ng bird flu na nadiskubre sa Pampanga, naiwasan sa maagap na askiyon: opisyal

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 30 02:22 PM

MAYNILA – Laking pasalamat ng Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) na hindi na kumalat pa ang nadiskubre nilang bird flu sa Pampanga.   Read more »

Makati mamamahagi ng libreng flu, pneumonia vaccine

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 31 07:03 PM

Magsasagawa ang lokal na pamahalaan ng Makati ng malawakang flu at pneumonia vaccination driver para mabigyan umano ang mga residente nito ng dagdag na proteksiyon sa COVID-19. Read more »

Study hints old vaccines may stop coronavirus; scientists skeptical

Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times
Updated as of Jul 30 11:39 AM

Now a study suggests that people who have received certain routine vaccines in the recent past — including childhood vaccinations like measles-mumps-rubella and polio, as well as adult flu vaccines — have lower coronavirus infection rates than those not recently vaccinated.   Read more »

DOH recommends flu, pneumonia shots to dodge COVID-19 complications

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 16 12:58 PM

The health department recommends the use of flu and pneumonia vaccine to prevent complications from the novel coronavirus disease, an official said Thursday.    Read more »

China says G4 swine flu virus not new, does not infect humans easily

Reuters
Posted at Jul 04 07:41 PM

China's agriculture ministry said in a statement that the study has been interpreted by the media "in an exaggerated and nonfactual way." Read more »

Bagong klase ng swine flu na nakakahawa umano sa tao, nadiskubre sa China

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 02 07:10 PM

May posibilidad umano na maging sanhi ng pandemic ang bagong klase ng swine flu na nadiskubre sa China.  Read more »

There’s a new strain of swine flu in China—should we worry?

ANCX
Updated as of Jul 02 05:32 PM

2020 just won’t quit, huh. BY JAM PASCUAL Read more »

Philippines tightens guard vs China pork smugglers as potential pandemic looms

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 02 02:51 PM

The Philippines is on guard against smuggling of pork products especially from China as the government monitors a new type of swine flu which researchers fear could trigger another pandemic while the COVID-19 outbreak persists. Read more »

Pagpuslit ng pork products mula China tinututukan: Agri dep't

Joyce Balancio, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 02 05:42 PM

Inihayag ngayong Huwebes ng Department of Agriculture na tinututukan ng ahensiya ang smuggling o pagpuslit ng mga pork product mula China para maiwasan ang pagpasok ng bagong uri ng swine flu. Read more »

Philippines on guard against new potential pandemic from China

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 01 09:21 AM

The Philippines is monitoring a new type of swine flu from China which researchers fear could trigger another pandemic, an official from the Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. Read more »

Agri group nababahala sa bagong tuklas na klase ng swine flu

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 01 08:04 PM

Nababahala ang isang agriculture group sa isang bagong klase ng swine flu na natuklasan kamakailan ng mga mananaliksik sa China, na maaaring makahawa sa tao at may potensiyal na magdulot ng pandemya.   Read more »

New swine flu found in China has pandemic potential

Agence France-Presse 
Posted at Jun 30 06:38 AM

Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the US science journal PNAS.   Read more »

Proofs that life will go back to the old normal

Roberty Labayen
Posted at Jun 09 12:06 AM

With modern medicine, it has been proven that humankind eventually defeats even a mega killer disease. Read more »

Japan to send anti-flu drug Avigan to Philippines, 42 other countries for coronavirus research

Kyodo News
Posted at May 01 05:05 PM

Japan will provide anti-flu drug Avigan free of charge to 43 countries for clinical studies on its efficacy as a coronavirus treatment, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday.   Read more »

‘Perfect storm’ of diseases brewing if COVID-19 pandemic drags on: expert

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 29 07:04 PM

The coronavirus pandemic will trigger a “perfect storm” of disease outbreaks in the Philippines if it rages through the flu season beginning June, an infectious diseases specialist warned on Wednesday. Read more »

Coronavirus circulated in U.S. weeks earlier than thought, mistaken for flu

Sharon Bernstein and Kanishka Singh, Reuters
Posted at Apr 23 04:11 AM

SACRAMENTO, California - The novel coronavirus circulated in January in California, weeks earlier than thought, and early deaths were likely mistaken for the flu, a county health official said on Wednesday.   Read more »