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...transmitted by the standing floodwater through cuts in the skin and by people swallowing contaminated water. This month's leptospirosis outbreak - the worst by far that doctors here can remember - has swollen the disaster's death toll, claiming 157 victims from mostly poor communities. (See pictures of the storm...
...National health authorities have been trying to contain the unusually virulent outbreak of the common disease since the first cases appeared around a week after the storm. They are distributing antibiotics to some 1.3 million people living in still-flooded areas in the capital and two nearby provinces. But last week, the country's top epidemologist sent out an "SOS" to the global health authorities. A medical mission from the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network was set to arrive in Manila today and Tuesday. WHO officials in Manila said the four-person team will...
...seeking medical attention. In flood-ravaged Marikina, one of 16 cities that make up Metropolitan Manila, only four out of 21 public health facilities were in operation as of Oct. 24. San Lazaro Hospital, the main government hospital specializing in infectious diseases, has treated 451 leptospirosis cases since the storm hit on Sept. 26 - nearly double the number of cases in the span of just a month than is usual for the whole last year. "We expected cases to rise because of the unusually heavy flooding, but we were not prepared for the numbers and we eventually...
...Ketsana dropped more rainfall on greater Manila's 14 million residents in a nine-hour deluge than in an average month of the country's rainy season from July to November. At the height of the storm, 80% of the capital was underwater. The rainfall was exceptional, but the severity of the flooding was intensified by the city's garbage-clogged drainage system, partly from the shanties of informal settlers living along waterways and decades of skewed urban planning...
...Authorities quickly issued health warnings about waterborne diseases after the storm. For leptospirosis, people were told to cover cuts and abrasions with waterproof bandages, and thoroughly wash after wading in floodwater. Early symptoms of the disease include fever, rash, vomiting and jaundice; renal failure, hemorrhaging and liver disease are among its life-threatening complications. An average of 680 leptospirosis cases and 40 deaths from the disease are reported every year in the Philippines. And while its incidence is far higher in tropical than temperate regions, global surveillance of the disease is generally poor, said Adam Craig of WHO's Western...