The Baguio City government has recorded 3,087 self-reported cases of acute gastroenteritis, a local health official said Sunday.
In a news conference, Baguio City Health Services Office (CHSO) head Celia Flor Brillantes said of the over 3,000 cases, 691 or around 22% sought hospital consultations.
“[On] Jan. 9, we were getting a significant decline of our cases. Today, we only had three reporting cases in our system. [The] majority are females and belong to the age group of 21 to 30 young adults,” Brillantes said.
She said stool samples from 10 patients admitted for acute gastroenteritis were positive for norovirus and sapovirus, which experts said were the common causes of the disease.
Unless we are able to identify the causes, circumstances, only then can we confidently say that it is over. But looking at the current trend of the epidemiological curve, we’re getting there.
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