The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) said yesterday that even with a rise in dengue cases there is no area hit by a dengue outbreak yet. “We are not conducting an entomological survey, we have not seen the need for one. There is no outbreak,” said Dr. Expedito Medalla, DOH-7′s Health Emergency Management Services coordinator. He also said that the survey, which entails counting larvae and adult Aedes aegypti, is only done when there is evidence of a large concentration of the dengue-carrying vectors in one area. Dengue cases went up by 42 percent between Jan. 1 to Oct. 24, 2009, according to the latest DOH-7 surveillance report when compared with the same period last year.
The top 10 towns or cities with the highest number of dengue cases are:
- Cebu City
- Lapu-Lapu City
- Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental province
- Minglanilla town in southern Cebu
- Mandaue City
- Talisay City
- Naga City
- Tagbilaran City in Bohol province
- Danao city in Cebu
- Tanjay City in Negros Oriental
