Dengue Fever instances in the Philippines are widely reported.  Everyone knows someone who had dengue fever in this year.  Just today, my son and I are both sick so we are drinking tawa tawa tea.  The good news is that Kris Aquino, the celebrity sister of the current president, has volunteered to be an endorser of the Department of Health’s campaign against dengue fever.

Health director and head executive assistant Yolando Oliveros said that Kris yesterday volunteered to be an anti-dengue advocate for free, an offer the health agency was unlikely to turn down.

“She could really be helpful to us in educating the public against dengue because she is the most sought-after endorser in the Philippines,” Oliveros told the Inquirer on the phone yesterday.

In a separate phone interview, Dr. Lyndon Lee Suy, head of the DOH’s emerging and re-emerging infections disease unit, said Kris was a “perfect model for the advocacy” as a mother of two sons—Josh and Baby James—who suffered from the mosquito-borne disease last year.

http://www.inquirer.net/mindandbody/healthbeat/view.php?db=1&article=20100828-289204

Anti – dengue fever campaigns are out in full force in public places and in the news papers. It’s a definite epidemic. Just be careful not to blame dengue fever for everything. For example, my employees sister began getting sick after she got the cervical cancer vaccine shot. But the hospital would rather blame dengue fever. Geeez.

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