Food Poisoning In The Philippines 2024. Homer pantua, raised concerns about the increasing cases of salmonella in the. In the philippines, salmonella cases were 9,000 in 2022 and increased to 42 percent from january to august 2023, pantua said.
The department of health (doh) has reported a surge in food and waterborne diseases, especially bloody diarrhea, typhoid fever, and rotavirus infections, for the first. Each year, an estimated 600 million people fall ill and 420 000 people die from unsafe food, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years (dalys).