The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board or the LTFRB issued a memorandum that orders public transport drivers and operators to put a “No Smoking” sign inside their vehicles and terminals starting on January 7, 2010.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), second hand smoke or a smoke which has been emitted by a smoker is 4 times more toxic that direct smoking. This means that the people around the smoker is at higher risk of having lung cancer.
The WHO’s 2009 Global Tobacco Epidemic Report estimated that 600,000 people around …

 
122 Grade 3 students caught fever in Bacolod City. This is the reason why suspension of classes were made. The name of the school is St. John’s Institute. According to Principal Marilou Geraldoy only Grade 3 classes will be suspended  until Wednesday. The students started to get sick Friday last week and that the students were not able to attend their classes.
Monitoring of students is advised to know who among the students have swine flu.
Dr. Salome Binas, city health officer, said they have yet to determine if any …

A 49 year old employee of the House of Representatives who had swine flu died. But according to the doctors the death was mainly because the woman had swine flu also has a heart and liver disease which made her body really weak. Batasan Pambansa complex in Quezon City was shut down due to this. The suspension of work until Sunday was ordered by House Speaker Prospero Nograles. The buildings will undergo sanitation during the days of suspension of work.
I have already instructed the concerned House officials to coordinate and …

It has been reported by the DOH Department of Health that there are new 54 confirmed H1N1 positive. But they have told that the mortality rate of H1N1 is 0.05% only which is very low compared to other sickness like SARS, Fever and other deadly sickness. So the people should be educated about the information of this new sickness.
If I were DOH I will make an advertisement in order to educate the people .

 
The swine flu cases in Philippines now went up to 193 health officials say. 46 new cases have mild flu, this was according to  Health Secretary Duque III. 71 people who had this swine flu are now fully recovered.
The new 8 cases of swine flu were found in a village in Nueva Ecija while the other eight in an elementary school in Bulacan.
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Some of the schools in Manila are opening their classes today inspite of the Philippines’ 147 confirmed cases of swine flu as of today, June 14.
According to the Marketing and Communications executive director of DLSU Manila, Mr. Jose Mari Magpayo, their school is conducting  a “Be Flu-less, Not Clueless” information drive about swine flu or A(H1N1) influenza virus. Complete sanitation has been conducted to prevent the further spread of swine flu.
DLSU Taft Avenue set up help desks and gave free bottles of alcohol to students returning to class.
Students from Centro …

The A(H1N1) influenza virus or swine flu cases in the Philippines is now increased to 39, according to Secretary Franciscon Duque. But there is no death case regarding this swine flu has been known. The DOH (Department of Health) said that there 6 new cases of swine flu.
Public elementary and secondary schools were not suspended because the cases of swine only started in the universities, wherein foreign exchange students were the ones infected. Their reason is that public school students have little or no contact at all with such foreign …

Classes were suspended in Metro Manila due to swine flu that is starting to spread. De La Salle University (DLSU) made a 10-day suspension, other schools that have suspended the opening of classes from June 8 were the University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines-Manila, Far Eastern University, University of Asia and the Pacific and St. Paul University-Manila.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque said that there are better ways to prevent the spread of the said swine flu in schools which is the practice of proper hygiene among students and …