BAGUIO CITY: The Cordillera office of the Department of Health (DoH) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) has reported that dengue fever cases increased by 87 percent for the first 17 weeks of this year with a total of 903 cases in the region compared to the 484 cases for the same period last year.

Geeny Anne Austria, a nurse at the DoH-CAR’s regional epidemiology and surveillance unit, said there were three deaths recorded--

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