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00000000Following the initial
recognition of DHF in the Philippines in 1953 - 54,
dengue has remained highly endemic and epidemics have
occurred every three to five years. The 1956 epidemic
in Manila gad a case fatality rate of eight per cent.
The biggest DHF epidemic occurred in 1966 when 9384
DHF cases and 250 deaths were reported (case fatality
rate of 2.7 per cent). Since then, although DF/DHF appears
to have decreased in importance, DHF cases have continued
to occur particularly in Manila. The total number of
cases of DF/DHF covering the period 1956 - 1984 is given
in Table 3.
Table 3. Dengue
Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) in the Philippines*
|
Year
|
Number of DHF
cases
|
Number of DHF
deaths
|
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1956
|
1 207
|
72
|
|
1958
|
94
|
34
|
|
1960
|
551
|
40
|
|
1961
|
1 459
|
33
|
|
1964
|
759
|
169
|
|
1966
|
9 384
|
250
|
|
1968
|
1 116
|
115
|
|
1970
|
922
|
83
|
|
1972
|
1 570
|
83
|
|
1974
|
1 665
|
153
|
|
1975
|
...
|
000
|
|
1976
|
575
|
000
|
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1977
|
729
|
70a
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1978
|
410
|
000
|
|
1979
|
508
|
000
|
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1980
|
73
|
...
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1981
|
123
|
...
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1982
|
130
|
...
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1983
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1 684
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130
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1984
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2 545
|
89
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*Source of data
: (10), (15), (17).
… = Data not available.
a Deaths reported between 1975 and 1979.
 
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