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Did You Know: Metro Manila has highest number of leptospirosis cases

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Children play in floodwaters following monsoon rains that flooded low-lying areas in Manila on Sept. 28, 2013. Two weeks after heavy flooding brought about by rain engulfed Olongapo City, more than 100 cases of leptospirosis have been recorded, according to Philippine Red Cross and local government officials. AP

According to the Department of Health, Metro Manila accounted for 24% or 116 of the 480 leptospirosis cases reported nationwide from January to May.

The region posted the highest number of cases followed by Bicol Region which had 80 cases or 17 percent.

Western Visayas ranked third with 13 percent or 61 cases.

—Marielle Medina, Inquirer Research

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