Philippines Reportable Diseases update for 2015: Diphtheria doubles, measles way down

In this post, I want to look at some of the most significant reportable infectious diseases in the Philippines to date in 2015 and compare to the same period in 2014. Cholera From Jan. 1 to Jun. 27 this year, the Philippines has reported 1,514 suspected and laboratory-confirmed cases of the gastrointestinal bacterial disease, cholera. ["]