Third DLSU student has been found with A(H1N1)

1. MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DoH) confirmed a third case of Influenza A(H1N1) infection at the De La Salle University in Manila, where over 1,000 faculty and students were placed under home quarantine to stop the spread of the disease.

The new case, a 17-year-old male, could not recall whether or not he had contact with two Japanese students who tested positive for the disease, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said Friday.

Aside from the new case at DLSU, the DoH confirmed three more A(H1N1) cases, all of whom came from the United States, bringing to 33 the total number of A(H1N1) cases in the country.

Classes at DLSU were suspended for 10 days earlier this week after a female Japanese exchange student was confirmed infected with the potentially deadly flu virus.

source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20090605-208992/3rd-H1N1-case-at-DLSU-total-cases-hit-33

2. MANILA, Philippines—A portion of the United Coconut Planters Bank building in Makati City has been quarantined after a foreign consultant showed symptoms of flu, an employee told INQUIRER.net Friday.

source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20090605-208990/UCPB-building-in-Makati-quarantined

3. Two universities in Manila have deferred the opening of classes next week to make sure that their faculty members and students are free of the influenza A(H1N1) virus.

Advisories from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and Far Eastern University (FEU) said they are deferring the opening of classes to June 15 and June 17, respectively, due to the A(H1N1) scare.

"As a precautionary measure against influenza A (H1N1) and in order to allow students, support staff, faculty members and administrators who arrived from travel abroad to voluntary quarantine, the University of Santo Tomas defers the opening of classes...," Father Isidro Abano, UST's secretary-general, said in the advisory.

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Second DLSU student has been found with A(H1N1)

Another foreign student of the De La Salle University (DLSU) has been found positive for influenza A(H1N1) virus, Health Secretary Francisco Duque announced Thursday.

Duque said the second DLSU student is a 20-year-old male Japanese, who is a contact of the first confirmed case of the school. The DLSU's first A(H1N1) case is also a Japanese student.

"This student also arrived in the country on May 12," the health secretary said.

Duque also announced in a press conference that six more Filipinos, who all have history of travel to the United States, have also been found positive for the dreaded virus. He said the Philippines already has 29 confirmed A(H1N1) cases.

Three of the six infected Filipinos belong to the same family with ages 12, 16 and 18 and the other three include a 22-year-old male, 1 33 year-old pregnant woman and a 52-year-old female.

"All of the six show only mild flu-like symptoms and are now being observed and managed in health facilities," the Department of Health said in a statement.

The DLSU's management has imposed a 10-day suspension after confirming its first case of A(H1N1). The class suspension started June 3 and will lapse on June 14.

The DOH said that since May 1, it has monitored a total of 414 people with suspected A(H1N1) infection. It said it had 13 other patients quarantined.

The DOH said that as of June 4, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported 1,863 new cases and 2 new deaths. It said there are now a total of 19,273 cases and 117 deaths from 66 reporting countries.

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source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/06/04/09/another-dlsu-student-infected-ah1n1

meanwhile

UST will go on reverse isolation in view of A(H1N1). No Students in UST from Jun6-16. Classes start on June 17 (unofficial statement from a friend).

Update: http://laakomaisip.blogspot.com/2009/06/third-dlsu-student-has-been-found-with.html

De La Salle University Suspends their classes due to H1N1

MANILA - The De La Salle University-Manila (DLSU-M) on Wednesday announced a suspension of classes starting Thursday, June 4, until Saturday, June 13, due to a confirmed case of influenza A (H1N1) in their school community.
A dzMM report said that the A (H1N1) case was from an exchange student who arrived last May 12.
This is the first case in the country of a school applying the Department of Health (DOH) mandated alert status for A (H1N1) cases.

source:http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/06/03/09/dlsu-suspends-classes-due-h1n1-case

http://cheftonio.blogspot.com/2009/06/dlsu-taft-manila-student-positive-with.html

http://kaiserfernandez.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/confirmed-case-of-influenza-a-and-campus-closure/

Update: http://laakomaisip.blogspot.com/2009/06/second-dlsu-student-has-been-found-with.html

Update List of Milk tested by BFAD for Melamine

Health Secretary Francisco Duque announced Wednesday that Jolly Cow Slender High Calcium Low Fat Milk (1 liter), a product of the People's Republic of China, had tested positive for melamine.

Negative list
The 21 dairy products cleared by the DOH of melamine contamination are:
1. Anmum Materna Milk Powder Chocolate Flavor (400g)
2. Bear Brand Choco (300g)
3. Bear Brand Sterilized Milk (200ml)
4. Cadbury Choclairs
5. Carnation Calcium Plus Non-fat Milk Powder
6. Klim Instant Full Cream Milk Powder
7. Milk Chocolate Bar (40g)
8. Monmilk Breakfast Milk Walnut Milk Beverage
9. Monmilk Hi-calcium Low fat milk (1L)
10. Monmilk Deluxe Pure Milk
11. Nestle Chocolate Flavor Ice cream
12. Nestle Dairy Farm Pure Milk
13. Nestle Fresh Milk (1L)
14. Nestle Kitkat
15. Nestle Milk chocolate (40g)
16. Nestle Pops Ice cream
17. Nestle Vanilla Flavor Ice cream
18. Nestogen 1 DHA
19. Nesvita Cereal Milk Drink
20. Blue Tree Express Milk Drink or Green Apple Flavor (500ml)
21. Prime Roast Instant Nutritious Cereal (28g)

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/10/08/08/update-3-doh-clears-21-dairy-products-melamine-contamination

Partial List of Milk tested by BFAD for Melamine

The Department of Health said Green Food Yili Pure Milk and Mengniu Original Drink Milk from China have both tested positive for melamine contamination.


Duque also identified several milk products that have tested negative for melamine contamination. These are:

1. Anchor Lite Milk
2. Anlene High calcium low fat milk UHT
3. Bear Brand instant
4. Chic Choc milk chocolate
5. Farmland skim milk
6. Jinwei Drink
7. Jolly Cow pure fresh milk
8. Kiddie Soya Milk Egg Delight
9. Lactogen 1 DHA infant formula
10. M&M milk chocolate candies
11. M&M peanut chocolate candies
12. Milk Boy
13. Nestogen 2 DHA follow-up formula
14. Nestogen 3 DHA follow-up formula
15. Nido 3+ prebio with DHA
16. Nido Full Cream milk powder
17. Nido Jr.
18. No-sugar chocolate of Isomalt 2 Oligosaccharide
19. Nutri Express milk drink
20. Pura UHT fresh Milk
21. Snickers fresh roasted in caramel nogut in thick milk chocolate
22. Vitasoy soya milk drink
23. Wahaha Orange
24. Wahaha Yellow
25. Want want Milk Drink
26. Windmill Skim Milk Powder
27. Yinlu Milk Peanut
28. Yogi Yogurt Flavored Milk Drink

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