“Now, if you have fever, you feel week, and you don’t know you will probably have hemorrhagic shock,” she said.
“It is as if the mosquitoes have mutated,” she added.
She said the outbreak of dengue usually comes two one to two months after the start of normal rainfall.
“So the end of El Nino brought us dengue because of the continuous rains,” she added.
Based on figures from the PHO statistician Nenita Gacus, Kalilangan, home of the highest number of dengue cases in the province so far at 248, has a morbidity rate of 643 in every 100,000 population.
She said places like Kalilangan posted more cases of dengue since the area has a flat terrain where water often stagnates. She said the areas where dengue mosquitoes thrive are those where people store water due to lack of water system or where there is water rationing, or where dirty water is stored.
