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Thursday, August 2, 2012

A FIVE-year-old boy from Tublay, Benguet, was tested positive for Enterovirus-71, the same killer virus that killed several children in Cambodia last month.

This is the second case of E-71 or hand, foot, and mouth disease monitored in the country after swab samples from the boy tested positive in laboratory testing at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine.

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Department of Health-Cordillera Dr. Amelita Pangilinan said the infected boy is now recuperating at home, indicating that the countrys EV-71 is mild and not fatal unlike in Cambodia where close to 60 children have died since June.

Pangilinan said the case of the boy is non-neurologic exhibiting only on and off fever, cough, and cold and exhibiting pustules in the hand, mouth and feet.

The boy was already discharged from the Benguet General Hospital where he was admitted for days.

A surveillance team was also sent by the DOH to monitor the brother of the boy as well as other children whom he had close contact but tests results came out negative. (JM Agreda)

Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on August 02, 2012.

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Boy, 5, tests positive for deadly virus