A HEALTH official in South Cotabato confirmed that a fresh case of filariasis (also called elephantiasis) was recently discovered in a remote sitio in Koronadal City. South Cotabato was declared "filaria-free" in 2013 and "malaria-free" in 2017.
Jose Barroquillo Jr., sanitation inspector 4 of the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) and provincial mosquito-borne disease coordinator, disclosed on Monday that an individual in Sitio El Lalam, Assumption village tested positive of filariasis parasite during a nocturnal blood smearing conducted among 38 residents last Friday.
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