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MOH Takes New Approach To Dengue
posted (July 24, 2019)

So, with more types of Dengue circulating - Bautista explained how the Ministry is trying to respond to Dengue at the community level:

Kim Bautista - Chief of Operations, Vector Control Unit
"One of the things that we're doing this year is actually having all the 6 district programs develop a preparedness and response plan for dengue, that includes your vector control component, strengthening the laboratory surveillance, clinical surveillance and education as well. The difference in the approach is using surveillance committees that have been established within the different health regions, working along with management and developing a preparedness and response plan."

From January to May of 2019, a total of 1.1 million cases of dengue have been reported across the Americas.

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