Manila, June 27 -- The Department of Health (DOH) Center for Health Development (CHD) 6 (Western Visayas) appealed to the public to be responsible pet owners as it warned that the region has the second highest human rabies deaths in the country.
Ame Liz G. Mardoquio, program coordinator of the CHD 6 Rabies Prevention and Control Program, said on Wednesday that they recorded 17 human rabies deaths from January to May, two of which were confirmed by laboratories as positive.
Three of the total number of cases were found negative based on the polymerase chain reaction (a laboratory technique used to make multiple copies of a segment of DNA) conducted by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and the rest are probable cases but the diag...