00:00 In the capture of a CCTV camera in Barangay Calulot, San Fernando, Pampanga,
00:08 a dog was seen running on the street.
00:12 After a few seconds,
00:14 it suddenly attacked and bit the residents.
00:19 The dog immediately ran away and moved to another location.
00:25 In another CCTV footage, also captured in Barangay Calulot,
00:29 a young man was bitten by a dog and was about to leave his house.
00:34 Later,
00:36 a dog suddenly attacked him and bit another resident.
00:44 The young man fell down and ran away.
00:49 In San Lazaro Hospital,
00:53 we also caught a patient who was bitten by a dog.
00:57 This is where the confirmed cases of the virus are brought.
01:02 The patients are brought here 24 hours a day.
01:06 How did the government respond to the increase of rabies cases in the country?
01:21 A reporter's notebook found the young man who was captured by CCTV while being attacked by a dog in Pampanga.
01:28 He is 7-year-old Jayden Beltran.
01:32 When he came out of the gate, he saw the dog.
01:36 He didn't expect that the dog would come near him and put its foot in front of him.
01:42 My son saw the dog's bite.
01:50 In these images,
01:52 the young man was bitten by a dog in different parts of his face.
01:57 Because of Jayden's bite,
01:59 he was immediately taken to the hospital for treatment and vaccination.
02:05 Jayden also had big wounds on his face.
02:08 What I know is that rabies is fatal.
02:11 Jayden was saved from the incident.
02:15 His wounds are slowly healing.
02:19 With the help of the barangay,
02:21 Jayden is now free of the need for anti-rabies vaccine.
02:25 They should not be afraid.
02:27 We have the technology of vaccination.
02:30 Almost 100% efficacy of the vaccine.
02:34 The City Health Office of San Fernando, Pampanga said
02:38 that after a dog attacked the area,
02:41 the residents immediately killed it.
02:44 Actually, we don't know who the owner is.
02:47 According to the rape sack of 2007,
02:49 the owner of the dog that was bitten is liable for the damages that may occur during the treatment.
02:56 The owner should be held accountable.
02:57 The dog was also diagnosed with rabies.
03:01 That's why other dogs that are in contact with the dog or are attacked by Jayden should be caught.
03:08 Especially if it is unvaccinated,
03:10 it should be euthanized because it cannot be treated anymore.
03:16 But not all the time, rabies is caught by animals.
03:21 Some of them were even killed.
03:27 In this cell phone video that was taken on February 3, 2023,
03:40 we can see that John Leo, 36 years old, is breathing heavily while confined in the hospital.
03:47 His wife, Jonalyn Dagping, told us that
03:51 in October 2022, John Leo was bitten by a dog.
03:56 Because the dog bit John Leo was not injured,
04:01 his wife did not get vaccinated against rabies.
04:04 We know that if it is a dog, there is no rabies.
04:07 And it is only in our family.
04:09 My husband did not get vaccinated against rabies.
04:14 But just three months passed,
04:17 suddenly, he felt pain in his arm and it was hard for John Leo to breathe.
04:22 He was taken to the hospital,
04:26 but while being observed by doctors,
04:28 he was slowly experiencing symptoms of rabies,
04:34 such as difficulty breathing and fear of water and wind.
04:38 He could not control his movements.
04:42 He said, "What is this? What is happening?"
04:45 I said, "I don't know."
04:47 He said to the nurse, "Nurse, please save me.
04:51 We have children."
04:54 After that, he said, "You don't have a child. You can't talk to him anymore."
04:58 Because of the symptoms that his wife showed,
05:01 John Leo was taken to the isolation room of the hospital.
05:04 They found out that his wife was positive for rabies.
05:09 I could not explain it.
05:11 His eyes were different.
05:13 He was twitching.
05:15 And just a few hours later, John Leo came back to life.
05:21 John and his wife explained that they did not have enough information about rabies.
05:26 So, they decided to leave it to their husband to get vaccinated.
05:31 According to the expert, rabies can be transmitted to humans
05:36 if we are bitten, scratched, scratched, or if we are bitten by a rabies-containing animal.
05:42 It means that if a person has rabies,
05:46 the rabies infection is already in the brain.
05:51 So, there's nothing we can do.
05:53 If the virus is just spreading to other parts of the body,
05:56 primarily to the rabies, to pass to others,
05:59 death cannot be avoided.
06:01 Among the symptoms that a person with rabies can experience,
06:07 it is dizziness, difficulty breathing, and dizziness.
06:11 The most common positive for rabies is dizziness, difficulty breathing, and dizziness.
06:16 It is also the case of light blindness.
06:18 And the most common case is the fear of water and wind.
06:23 San Lazaro Hospital is the largest animal bite center in the Philippines.
06:31 It is already 5 p.m. and this is the time when the patients here in San Lazaro Hospital start to crawl.
06:39 The hospital is observing patients here at 3 a.m.
06:46 and most of the patients are children.
06:49 The highest number of rabies cases we saw in one day is 1,900.
06:54 The most alarming thing is that 99% of the patients are bitten by a dog.
07:00 A dog?
07:01 Yes, a dog.
07:02 They are the ones who are being taken care of?
07:03 Yes, that's the problem.
07:05 Because they are taking care of the dog, sometimes they are not vaccinated.
07:10 And even the patient who was bitten by their dog, they are not vaccinated.
07:15 San Lazaro Hospital is the largest animal bite center in the Philippines.
07:23 We were able to queue up with the mothers Mayvelyn and Genesis,
07:27 seven years old, to get vaccinated against rabies shot.
07:31 Their pet dog, Genesis, was bitten right in front of her eyes.
07:35 I was just taken to the hospital and I was already vaccinated.
07:39 Brother, if you were not vaccinated, we will have a hard time because the rabies is in your brain.
07:44 Okay? This is what I will do. I will poke you slowly.
07:49 Slowly. Now, mommy will hug you. Okay?
07:55 Genesis was immediately injected with rabies shots to prevent the spread of the virus to the child.
08:01 So, what are these, Doc?
08:03 Dr. Divilia also showed me the supply of vaccines in their hospital.
08:08 We are only halfway through. We have run out of supplies for the entire year.
08:14 So, we are supplementing the request for vaccines.
08:20 Dr. Divilia defended that there is no shortage of vaccine supply against rabies in their hospital.
08:26 But the problem is, there are patients who are not vaccinated and their condition is getting worse.
08:32 Usually, our wards are at the end of the line for rabies patients.
08:36 We were shown the isolation room where the patients who are vaccinated against rabies are admitted.
08:43 Usually, if it looks like this, it has a wound, it's normal.
08:47 Unfortunately, there is no better way.
08:50 In all the rooms here in San Lazaro Hospital, this is the only one that has a wound.
08:55 This is called a rabies room.
08:57 There are at least four rabies rooms here in San Lazaro Hospital.
09:01 This is where the confirmed patients who were infected with the virus are brought here.
09:04 The patients who are brought here do not last more than 24 hours.
09:08 In fact, last night, August 29, a patient died inside the room.
09:16 According to the Department of Health or DOH, it was released in March 2023,
09:21 55 cases were reported to have died from human rabies.
09:25 It is higher by 8% compared to 2022.
09:29 200 to 300 Filipinos die every year from rabies.
09:36 For the Animal Kingdom Foundation or AKF, a non-government organization,
09:42 awareness of the public is more important.
09:46 What is scary here is the lack of awareness of people.
09:51 Rabies is dangerous, it is fatal, and rabies is preventable.
09:57 I think we will have greater social participation in the rabies prevention of our government.
10:09 The problem of rabies in the country has not changed.
10:12 But, it is also based on data.
10:15 The number of cases is still increasing and there are still people dying.
10:20 Aside from the government's more strict program,
10:24 it is also important for pet owners to be responsible.
10:28 Vaccinate the pets.
10:31 Until next Saturday, I am Jun Veneracion and this is Reporters Notebook.
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