| cholera in metropolitan manila: foodborne transmission via street vendors. | reported are the results of an unmatched case-control study to determine the risk factors associated with acquisition of cholera in manila. cases were patients admitted to the san lazaro hospital between july and september 1989 and whose stools yielded vibrio cholerae o1 on culture. controls were patients admitted to the same hospital and who had no history of diarrhoea or of having taken antibiotics during the 3 days prior to admission. of the 158 cases and 158 controls who had bought food from ... | 1994 | 7955024 |
| a survey of bovine, bubaline and swine sarcocystosis in the philippines. | in a survey conducted from january to december, 1994, muscle tissues in 12 out of 22 slaughtered carabaos ages 8-17 years old and obtained from the food terminal inc, abbatoir in laguna showed numerous white and creamy elliptic-shaped soft bodied macrocysts in the throat muscles. microscopic examination of the throat and cardiac muscle tissues revealed the presence of fusiform-shaped microcysts. our observations are consistent with previous reports incriminating sarcocystis fusiformis as the mos ... | 1997 | 9656372 |
| where women take control. | on the philippines island of panay, south of luzon and mindoro in the province of capiz, women's development projects were supported by the philippine agriculture department, the manila office of the un food and agriculture organization, and funded by the un population fund. the island population survives mostly on the fishing industry, which has suffered from chronic overfishing and devastation of mangrove swamps by development of fish farms. the population is very poor, with little opportuni ... | 1994 | 12287490 |