The city has 23 confirmed cholera cases and two recent areas of outbreak.
BACOLOD, Philippines – City health workers in Negros Occidental’s independently administered capital are sprinting to disinfect deep wells in at least six barangays following the declaration of a new cholera outbreak area.
Dr. Grace Tan of the Bacolod City Health office confirmed the presence of vibrio cholerae bacteria, which causes cholera, in two water sources in Barangay Mandalagan, the city’s newest outbreak area.She said the results came from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine , which analyzed samples collected by the Bacolod City Epidemiological Surveillance Unit .
Other areas with confirmed cholera cases are Barangays Mansilingan, Tangub, Alijis Sum-ag, Granada, Barangay 14, and Handumanan.The same problem bedevils communities across Negros Occidental province, which has logged 47 cholera cases. Four of these cases come from the second district immediate north of Bacolod City while the bulk of 43 cases come from the third district.
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