MANILA, Philippines — The president of the Philippines has placed herself under voluntary quarantine after returning from a 13-day trip to countries affected by swine flu — despite the fact that she’s feeling fine, officials said Tuesday.
A-40-year-old woman in Bangkok has become Thailand’s first fatality linked to the type-A (H1N1) influenza virus, a high-level health officer said on June 26.
By Dona Pazzibugan, Leila Salaverria, Cynthia Balana
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Publication Date: 28-06-2009
One lesson from the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic of 2002-03 is that you cannot separate the right to health from the right to free speech. SARS was first detected in Guangdong province in China, and soon infected infected 8,096 people and killed 774 individuals in 37 countries all over the world. It felled its [...]
Leila Salaverria, Christian V Esguerra, Dona Pazzibugan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Publication Date: 25-06-2009
Philippine House closed for five days after flu-related death
MANILA: The Philippine House of Representatives suspended operations yesterday for five days after news that the country’s first A (H1N1) flu-related fatality worked at the legislature. Australia reported its second flu-related death - the third for the Aisa-Pasific region, while China announced a school-closure plan to respond [...]
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine House of Representatives suspended operations Tuesday for five days after news that the country’s first swine flu-related fatality worked at the legislature. Australia reported its second swine flu-related death — the third for the Asia-Pacific region.
Swine flu has paralysed the House of pork.
The Philippine House of Representatives whose members receive pork barrel (countrywide development fund) has suspended office work for five days after reports that the country’s first swine flu-related fatality was its employee.
49-year-old dies of A (H1N1)
MANILA: A 49-year-old Filipina with heart attack and liver ailments has died after contracting the A (H1N1) flu virus, the first such death in Asia, health officials in Manila said yesterday.
Christian V Esguerra and Dona Pazzibugan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Publication Date: 23-06-2009
A 49-year-old woman died of heart attack at her home in Metro Manila on Friday (June 19), but a throat swab indicated she was infected with the Influenza A(H1N1) virus, making her death the first in the Philippines related to swine flu.