{"id":3272,"date":"2016-09-24T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2021-07-06T19:46:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T11:46:25","slug":"how-to-zika-virus-prevention-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2016\/09\/24\/how-to-zika-virus-prevention-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Zika virus Prevention in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prevention will always be better than cure, and that is especially true with the Zika virus. There are now a total of 9 cases confirmed by the Department of Health (DOH), with all cases not having a history of travel to other countries a month before they were diagnosed with Zika.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DOH recently released handy infographics telling everyone in the country more about the virus, as well as ways to prevent it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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WHAT IS ZIKA? A handy guide from the DOH. Infographic grabbed from <\/em>doh.gov.ph<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Search and destroy. <\/strong>Make sure you do the following to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in and around your home:<\/span>\n
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    1. Cover drums, pails, and other water containers at all times<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Clean and replace the water in your flower vases once a week<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Cover holes around the house with soil or sand<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Remove or pierce old tires being used as roof support or any tires around the house that might hold water<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. Flip-over empty bottles, jars, tin cans, and other items that can collect and hold water<\/span><\/li>\n
    6. Clean and remove water on dish racks and other household items that can hold water<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    7. Self-protection measures.<\/strong> Now that your surroundings are clean, it\u2019s time to protect yourself:<\/span>\n
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      1. Use mosquito repellants to avoid mosquito bites<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Use mosquito nets when sleeping during the day<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. Wear long sleeves or clothes that will protect your skin from mosquito bites<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      4. Seek early consultation. <\/strong>Go to your doctor or the nearest health facility if you\u2019ve had a fever for two or more days.<\/span><\/li>\n
      5. Say \u201cYes\u201d to fogging during outbreaks.<\/strong> Fogging should be done when there is an impending outbreak and during outbreaks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        The World Health Organization \u2013 Western Pacific Region also gave their own, easy-to-remember way of preventing a Zika virus infection:<\/span><\/p>\n

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        EASY AS A, B, C. A-void mosquito bites during the day, B-e aware, and C-lean your surroundings. Image grabbed from <\/em>World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific Facebook page<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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        Source: <\/em>Department of Health<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Prevention will always be better than cure, and that is especially true with the Zika virus. There are now a total of 9 cases confirmed by the Department of Health (DOH), with all cases not having a history of travel to other countries a month before they were diagnosed with Zika.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procedure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}