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  TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Feb. 13 (PIA) – The Provincial Health Office (PHO) and Office of the Provincial Veterinarian here are reminding dog owners to be responsible in ensuring their dogs are vaccinated and properly taken cared of amid as rabies cases and road accidents caused by dogs hound the province. In recent years, Bohol has accomplished less than 50% vaccination of its dog population, which has caused a surge in human and animal rabies cases in the province recently. Nurse Polizena Rances said during the recent Kapihan sa PIA that the government is bankrolling the purchase of anti-rabies shots. Animal bite victims undergoing the rabies treatment regimen must go to the animal bite treatment center (ABTCs) four times to be inoculated with the vaccine to stop the rabies virus from reaching the brain. Rances said data from the 16 ABTCs in Bohol showed that in the last three years, there were 51,171 reported dog bite incidents reaching treatment, and 15 of these cases ende...

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Feb. 13 (PIA) -- Sa panahon sa buwan sa kasingkasing, hibaw-i, ang mga sakit sa kasingkasing o  coronary heart diseases (CHD)   maoy kina-ingnan sa labing daghang Bol-anong namatay sa 2021, bisan pa nga mikabat sa gatusan ang gitipi sa   coronavirus disease. Kini maoy gibutyag sa  Provincial Health Office (PHO),  pinaagi sa  Capitol Lifestyle and Health Program coordinator  nga si Leonidas Saniel, usa   ka  nurse  sa PHO, didto sa  Capitol Reports , Pebrero 3. Matud niya, sa  2021 mortality tracking  sa Bohol, milutaw nga ang  pneumonia  pa gihapon ang nag-una sa listahan sa sakit nga mingkutlo sa labing daghang Bol-anon, bisan pa man sa COVID nga perte nga gara niadtong tuiga. Ang mga sakit sa kasing-kasing naglangkob sa  angina,  pag-atake sa kasingkasing, pag-undang sa pagtrabaho sa kasingkasing,  abnormal  nga pitik sa kasingkasing, sakit sa barbula sa kasingka...