Mau gyud. Ug ang mga tawo nga dali ra milad mutoo pud dayon.
Some facts about necrotizing fasciitis :
1) In the Philippines there are about 190 incidents of this disease per year. I remembered a few incidents in Cebu when my mother was hospitalized a few years ago, the next room patient was having this disease, the doctors have to amputate his arm.
2) Here in Singapore there are about 9 incidents of necrotizing fasciitis per year for a 4 Million population, yet 2 incidents in Pangasinan out of the 90 million population made a scare ... how does that compare? Ang pasabot, daghan pag ignoy sa Pinas, motoo lang dayon without getting facts.
3) Necrotizing fasciitis is NOT communicable, however the FEAR that spreads is communicable ... Mao ni ron ang prophecy kunohay sa Indian - its the FEAR that spreads rather than the disease itself.
Details are in here:
Statistics by Country for Necrotizing fasciitis - RightDiagnosis.com
Singaporean, Israeli scientists discover way to slow infection caused by 'flesh-eating' bacteria
This incident reminds me of the FEAR that spreads during the tsunami scare after Japan's earthquake.
Part of the blame is with media, particularly ABS-CBN. The news report only interviewed the victim, no expert or doctors were interviewed thus far. ABS-CBN made it look like the disease is unknown and incurable, but really from the news feed, even a non-doctor can easily identify it as flesh-eating-bacteria. The disease is curable folks, albeit with expensive treatment (see straitstimes link above). The victim was from a poor family, so don't expect them to have access to a specialist doctor.
Originally Posted by kolz
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