Communicable diseases go WILD during the rainy season which includes Water-Borne Diseases, Influenza, Leptospirosis and Dengue.

Doña Eustaquia Elementary School in Barangay Matab-ang is "up in smokes" (Photo by Jerick Estrope)

The Offices of City Mayor Neil Lizares III and the Talisay City Health (CHO) headed by City Health Officer Dr. Joy Gladys Guanzon, are campaigning for the practice of the Department of Health's (DOH) 4S to prevent dengue. Remember the 4S, which means:

1. search and destroy mosquito breeding places
2. use of self-protection measures
3. seek early consultation for fevers lasting more than 2 days, and
4. say yes to fogging when there is an impending outbreak

Search and destroy mosquito breeding places" is the 1S in the 4S Dengue Prevention Campain of the Department of Health (Photo by Jerick Estrope)

A dengue hotspot is defined as clustering of cases with increasing number in the past four week period while clustering of cases occur when there are three or more cases in a barangay in the past four period.

eam fogging operations of the Solid Waste Management Office include Raymund Villarin, Raymund Treyes and Mark Fernandez (Photo by Jerick Estrope)

For the January to June 6, 2017 period, Talisay landed on the top 8 with 50 cases of dengue with report from Jerick Estrope, Nurse II and Dengue Coordinator of the CHO.

City Health Officer Dr. Joy Gladys Guanzon (1st from right), with the City Health Office personnel, leads the fogging operations in Barangay Matab-ang last July 17, 2017 (Photo by Jerick Estrope)

The CHO has declared hotspot status on Barangay Eustaquia, Minuluan, Barangay Matab-ang with 6 cases of dengue virus infection recorded during the CHO's surveillance and entomological sampling last July 13 and 14, 2017 resulting to a fogging operation conducted in July 17, 2017.

Punong Barangay of Matab-ang Maring Bermejo declares war against Aedes Aegypti's and spearheads the fogging operations (Photo by Jerick Estrope)

The CHO plans to conduct fogging operations in Barangay Concepcion by the end of August as a result of the rise in dengue incidence rate in this locale in the previous years.