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MANILA- More than 2 million Filipino children are at risk of getting infected with measles due to lack of immunization, the Department of Health said Wednesday.

Dr. Ruby Constantino, director of the DOH Disease Prevention and Control Bureau said another measles outbreak is expected this year with 2.4 million unvaccinated children.


"We are impending that we will have another outbreak for this year," she said in a television interview with CNN Philippines.

The DOH has expressed alarm over the rising number of measles cases, urging parents to have their children vaccinated against the infectious disease.

"This is really a bit alarming. We really need to intensify, catch up with our vaccination levels here in the Philippines," Health Undersecretary Eric Domingo told radio DZMM.

Measles cases may further increase during its peak season in summer between March and April.

"Nakakatakot po na tumaas pa lalo kaya itong buwan po sana pabakunahan na [ang mga bata]," Domingo said.

(It is worrisome that the cases may rise so we wish that children will be vaccinated this month.)

The Philippines saw a fourfold jump in measles cases from 4,000 cases in 2017 to 21,000 cases last year.

Constantino attributed the increase to the Dengvaxia scare which eroded Filipinos' trust in vaccines.

In the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila alone, 7 children died within a day due to measles while at least 248 children are being treated for the disease as of Tuesday morning.

Unvaccinated young children are at highest risk of measles,
an airborne disease that infects the respiratory tract, and its complications which include severe diarrhea, pneumonia, blindness, and even death.



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Kasalanan yan nung luka lukang abugada ng PAO na si Persida Acosta. Walang ginawa kundi manakot sa mga tao at mambintang tungkol sa Dengvaxia.
 
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Si Persida Acostang walang ginawa kundi ikonekta sa Dengvaxia ang pagkamatay ng ilang mga bata ang dahilan kung bakit takot na ang publikong magpabakuna. Wala namang ebidensya na masama ang Dengvaxia. Nananakot lang yang luka lukang abugadang tuta ni Duterte para pasamain ang dating administrasyon ni Noynoy at magimbento ng fake na kaso para maipakulong si Noynoy. Ang publiko namang uto uto paniwala agad kay Duterteng manloloko. Buti nga sa kanila. Nagkatigdas. Yan ang napapapala ng madaling maniwala sa mga haka haka.
 
She is just doing her job as a PAO lawyer, kung sino man dito yung sisihin ay mismo yung old at new admin nang DOH. Wala man lang commercial sa TV or public announcement, di kagaya noon panahon ni Flavier meron infomercials sa TV ng DOH at meron mass public vaccination.
 
sana paniwalaan na ng marami na magkaiba ang epekto ng dengvaxia sa measles vaccine
Pareho lang silang walang masamang epekto. Ung mga namatay daw sa Dengvaxia, hindi un totoo. Ginawan lang un ng isyu ni Duterte para may maisampang kaso kay Noynoy. 23 countries ang gumamit ng Dengvaxia, walang problema lahat. Sa Pilipinas lang nagkaproblema dahil ni Duterte. Walang butas na makita kay Noynoy kaya nagimbento ng fake news tungkol sa Dengvaxia.
 
Kung sa ibang bansa to nangyari matagal nang nasibak si Persida Acosta at matagal nang napatalsik si Duterte dahil sa mga kapalpakan at kasinungalingan nila.
 
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