The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday raised an alert over a supposed hyperactive strain of dengue monitored in the Ilocos region.
The dengue strain, health officials said, hits usually dark-skinned people, particularly children.?Health Secretary Enrique Ona said the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) has been conducting tests on blood samples of four dengue strains to determine under which type the new strain can be classified.?
“For the moment we are calling it an Ilocano strain,” Ona told a news forum in Quezon City.
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