Dengue is one the things that Filipinos dread especially when the rainy season starts. Last year the number of people who were infected with Dengue is higher compared to previous years. The media was  more focus on the new strain of swine flu virus or AH1N1 while Health officials were finding a ways to stop AH1N1 spreading further. But Dengue has claimed more lives than the swine flu.

Laguna health officers has not declared an dengue outbreak in the province but deeply concerned with the rapid rise of number of people infected with the mosquito-borne diseases. There are a total of 1055 cases of dengue infection as of August 21, 2010. Health officer Dr. Alsaneo Lagos said that the situation in Laguna is not yet an outbreak since the cases were not concentrated in a single area.

Eight fatalities were reported in the last three weeks. The casualties were from two cities: Calamba and Binan and from 4 towns: Cavinti, Sta. Cruz, Pagsanjan and Majayjay. The Laguna provincial government has already started prevented measures such as mist spraying in waterways, distribution of mosquito nets and mosquito repellent in towns being monitored with dengue cases.

In Albay, a dengue task force was created to prevent an outbreak.  645 cases of dengue infections were recorded during the first seven months of the year. The province has adopted a color coding system to classify the severity of the dengue infection. Red is for areas with an outbreak, Code Yellow is for hot spots while green are for those areas with an alarming increase in number of dengue cases. So far there are no outbreak in Albay. Washington drive, Legazpi City and Barangay 16 are under code yellow while Barangays Arimbay, Buragwus, Sagpon and San Roque in Legazpi City, Barangay Sagpon in Daraga and Barangay in Tiwi are areas with increasing number of dengue cases.