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Customs warns disposed cigarettes pose health hazard
The Bureau of Customs (BOC)-Port of Zamboanga warned the public against buying cigarettes destroyed and disposed of by the agency. Mike Lanza, Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service chief of BOC-Zamboanga, said Saturday that they spray the con…
World Immunisation Week 2023
Routine immunisation is one of the important basic of health care because it is the starting point for health care from the beginning of a child’s life, to live a healthy life. The Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Dar…
WHO yet to confirm ‘sticky eyes’ as symptom of Arcturus: DOH
The World Health Organization (WHO) is yet to confirm ‘sticky eyes’ or conjunctivitis as a symptom of the XBB.1.1.6 Omicron or Arcturus subvariant, the Department of Health (DOH) said Wednesday. ‘In general, Covid-19 exhibits flu-like symptoms such as…
619,000 died from malaria in 2021 – WHO
Although it is a preventable and curable disease, malaria killed 619,000 people in 2021, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The life-threatening disease mostly spreads to people through the bites of some infected female Anopheles mosqui…
2nd Covid-19 booster shot guidelines for healthy adults signed
The guidelines on the administration of the second booster of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines for the general population have been signed. The vaccines to be used as second booster shots are AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Pfizer. ‘We already s…