CEBU CITY, Philippines — Health authorities in Central Visayas are battling more than measles and rubella (MR) as vaccine misinformation and hesitancy hamper efforts to immunize hundreds of thousands ...
An anti-measles immunisation drive in the Philippines has triggered a flood of conspiratorial claims online falsely alleging ...
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday said it is investigating and closely monitoring the case of a ...
Nine days after the launch of the goverment’s supplemental vaccination program against measles and rubella in Luzon, 362,793 ...
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Challenges notwithstanding, immunization must go on

A SEVEN-month-old girl from Dumanjug, Cebu, died of acute respiratory failure two weeks after receiving a measles-rubella vaccination. It is always a tragedy when a child dies, this being no exception ...
A total of 186,376 children in the Ilocos Region have been immunized against measles and rubella as of Aug. 23, according to ...
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Municipal Health Office (MHO) in Dumanjug, Cebu, has ordered the sampling and analysis of the ...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday assured parents that measles and rubella vaccines remain safe and effective as the ...
THE Department of Health (DOH) is conducting a medical investigation into the death of a seven-month-old infant in Dumanjug, ...
MAYOYAO, Ifugao (PIA) — Public health officials continue to encourage parents and guardians to have their young children ...
The Department of Health-Central Visayas has intensified its measles-rubella vaccination campaign after only 87,738 of the 630,214 children targeted in the region had been vaccinated as of Tuesday, ...