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 .

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 …

Is there any swine flu vaccine being develop ? A question that is always in my mind every time I heard News that there is an increasing cases of Swine Flu ( H1N1 ) in the country. Well according to reports at the Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) it will still takes 5 to six months to finalize the vaccine / antidote for the Swine Flu.
the World Health Organization has issued a Phase 5 pandemic alert, a strong signal that the WHO believes a pandemic is imminent, according to …

UPIS (University of the Philippines Integrated School)  Principal Dr. Aurora Zuniga announced that classes in all levels in UP will start on June 16, following the order of CHED. The CHED officials decided t issue suspension after the De La Salle students were found positive for swine flu or A(H1N1) virus.
“Many foreign students studying in the Philippines are still coming in for the opening of classes. Some of them have come from countries where there are confirmed A(H1N1) cases, thus the rescheduling of the class opening will give them time …

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 …

On June 3, school officials suddenly announced they were closing the school for 10 days after a 21-year old female foreign exchange student tested positive for the A(H1N1) flu virus. On Thursday, health authorities said another foreign student, a male, was also sick with the virus.
Swine flu ” H1N1” case shutters De La Salle University Taft Avenue campus.

I just saw the news that there is a Filipina Nurse that has been positive for H1N1 Flu Virus. She is now being treated in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. The Filipina Nurse arrived in Saudi Arabia last friday via Gulf Air and show symptoms last Monday. I just hope it will not spread out.
source : reuters.com