DOH says Dengue is Deadlier than H1N1

The global case fatality rate for A(H1N1) is 0.55 percent of the 25,288 confirmed cases in 73 reporting countries.

However, despite of the ballooning figure, DOH Undersecretary Mario Villaverde said there is still no outbreak of the virus in the Philippines. “There’s no outbreak because we can still trace cases. We can still find the index case and their contacts.”

DOH records showed that “some of these cases were related to the cluster of schools that have already voluntarily suspended their classes due to the novel virus.”

These schools are De La Salle University (DLSU)-Taft with a total of 15 cases; DLSU-St. Benilde College with two cases; Ateneo de Manila High School with three cases; St. Andrew School in Parañaque with one case and FEU-East Avenue College with two cases.

Source: Philstar.com

Looks like my hometown Parañaque is no exception to the H1N1 virus. Heh. Being that the darned airport is in Pque! So we should actually be ground zero to most of these infections since they come from overseas. But so far since there's only been one reported case of the H1N1 virus here, that means that our airport officials have been doing a spectacular job.