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Melioidosis and glanders found in Siquijor fatalities, DOH confirms
Health officials confirmed that two fatalities in Siquijor were caused by both melioidosis and glanders, rare and deadly diseases.
The two men had comorbidities and died on May 28 in a Negros Oriental hospital.
Laboratory tests revealed the presence of both Burkholderia pseudomallei, the cause of melioidosis, and Burkholderia mallei, the cause of glanders.
Melioidosis is caused by an environmental bacterium found in soil and water, while glanders is typically found in sick animals like horses.
Both diseases share symptoms such as high fever, pneumonia, abscesses, and septic shock, and can infect humans.
The Department of Health (DOH) is working to contain the infections and is investigating how these two uncommon diseases appeared in the same area and affected the same patients.
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Six rare human cases of glanders, a deadly bacterial disease primarily affecting animals, have been confirmed in Siquijor, marking the first instance of human infection in the island-province and the Negros Island Region.
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The Department of Agriculture (DA) is escalating measures to control melioidosis in Siquijor following confirmed human cases of the disease.
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The Department of Agriculture-Negros Island Region (DA-NIR) has assured the public that there is no need to worry about glanders, emphasizing that the disease is curable, even as they await laboratory results to confirm its suspected presence in Siquijor province.
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