Brace for rainy day diseases — DOH

  • Ahead of the rainy days, the Department of Health (DOH) is urging the public to get ready for the wet season by knowing how to combat the illnesses associated with it.
  • “It is best to arm ourselves with weapons against these diseases even before the onset of the rainy season by building a strong resistance against these illnesses,” Duque said in a statement before the weekend.
  • Duque noted it is also important to practice “personal hygiene and environmental sanitation” to keep diseases like diarrhea, water-borne diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera, leptospirosis and vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue at bay.