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Paalala ng DOH: Pabakunahan mga anak vs tigdas kahit may pandemya

Angela Coloma, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 10 12:23 PM

Ayon sa datos ng DOH, 2.4 milyong kabataan ang maituturing "vulnerable" na magkaroon ng tigdas.  Read more »

Malacañang hinikayat ang mga magulang na pabakunahan ang mga anak kontra tigdas

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 09 12:30 AM

 Para makaiwas na tumuloy sa isang measles outbreak, hinihikayat ng Malacañang ang mga magulang ngayong Huwebes na sumali sa immunization program ng Department of Health na magsisimula ngayong Oktubre.  Read more »

DOH warns vs measles outbreak amid coronavirus pandemic

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 07 11:01 PM

Another illness is expected to rock the Philippines as the Department of Health warned of a huge measles outbreak.  Read more »

Posibleng magkaroon ng measles outbreak sa 2021: DOH

Raphael Bosano, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 07 06:52 PM

Posibleng magkaroon muli ng malaking outbreak ng measles o tigdas sa susunod na taon, sabi ng Department of Health. Read more »

Bilang ng tigdas cases bumaba pero 'outbreak' status mananatili: DOH

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 05 09:14 PM

Ipinaliwanag ng DOH ang kanilang pamantayan para mawala ang outbreak status ng tigdas. Read more »

Scientists thought they had measles cornered. They were wrong

Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times
Posted at Apr 05 12:25 AM

The measles outbreak that led to a state of emergency in New York’s Rockland County began far away: in an annual Hasidic pilgrimage from Israel to Ukraine.   Read more »

Hundreds vaccinated after measles emergency in New York

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 30 04:53 PM

NEW YORK, United States - A New York county which declared a state of emergency over a measles outbreak is on the "right path" after administering hundreds of vaccinations in two days, the chief of the US district said on Friday. Read more »

DOH meets half of vaccination target, but measles still booming

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 07 07:29 AM

The Department of Health on Thursday said it has met nearly half of its target of vaccinating 3.7 million children against measles, but cases of the highly contagious disease were still on the rise.    Read more »

US health experts say measles resurgence 'unacceptable'

Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 28 07:40 AM

US public health experts sounded the alarm Wednesday over a resurgence of measles in recent years, principally in communities where people reject vaccinations and obtain exemptions for religious or "personal" reasons. Read more »

DepEd mulls ‘no vaccination, no enrollment’ policy

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 23 11:44 AM

MANILA - The Department of Education (DepEd) on Friday said it will review the proposal of the Department of Health to implement a "no vaccination, no enrollment" policy in public schools amid an increase of measles cases in the country. Read more »

DOH: Over 11,000 measles cases, 189 deaths in Philippines

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 21 10:50 PM

MANILA (UPDATED) — In less than two months, more than 11,000 people have contracted measles while 189 have died because of the disease, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Thursday. Read more »

JV Ejercito slams tarps tagging him in measles outbreak

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 21 09:40 AM

Reelectionist Senator JV Ejercito on Thursday tagged as "heartless" those responsible for tarps making fun of the measles outbreak with his photo.    Read more »

Measles outbreak may dwindle in April - health chief

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 19 04:18 PM

An outbreak of measles in 5 regions may wane in April, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Tuesday.  Read more »

Calabarzon sees surge in measles cases

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 18 02:56 PM

The province of Rizal has the most number of measles cases followed by Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, and Quezon. Read more »

Measles outbreak vaccination response

Noel Celis, AFP
Posted at Feb 16 11:07 PM

A child reacts during a Philippine Red Cross Measles Outbreak Vaccination Response activity in Baseco compound, a slum area in Manila on Saturday. A growing measles outbreak in the Philippines killed at least 25 people last month, officials said, putting some of the blame on mistrust stoked by a scare over an anti-dengue fever vaccine. Read more »

Health centers bubuksan sa weekends para sa pagpapabakuna vs tigdas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 09:05 PM

Bukas na ang lahat ng mga health center sa bansa tuwing weekend para sa pagpapabakuna kontra tigdas sa gitna ng outbreak. Read more »

DOH launches weekend immunization campaign vs measles

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 03:51 PM

MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) again appealed to parents to have their children vaccinated during the launch of its weekend immunization campaign against measles in Mandaluyong City Saturday.  Read more »

Kampanya kontra tigdas dinala sa mga barangay

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 14 10:52 PM

Ibinaba na sa mga barangay chairman sa Maynila ang kampanya para labanan ang tigdas. Read more »

Measles care unit, tents itinayo kontra siksikan ng mga pasyente

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 13 10:57 PM

Inaasahang maiibsan na ang siksikan ng mga pasyenteng may tigdas sa San Lazaro Hospital dahil sa inilagay na measles care unit ng Philippine Red Cross at karagdagang tent ng Department of Health.  Read more »

Red Cross sets up measles care unit

Raphael Bosano, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 13 05:36 PM

A medical staff checks a patient at the Philippine Red Cross measles care unit of the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila on Wednesday.  Read more »