Dengue outbreak downs Isabela folk

ILAGAN, Isabela– A dengue outbreak has been declared in Ramon town, amid increasing dengue cases there and across the region as well.

The Ramon municipal council made the declaration following last week’s death of two young dengue patients, aged three and eight, bringing to six the number of fatalities of the mosquito-borne disease in the town, and to 21 regionwide.

Since Jan. 52 dengue cases have been recorded in Ramon town, at least 30 of them since last month alone, and 546 across Cagayan Valley.

Earlier, neighboring Santiago City had also declared a dengue epidemic. – CL