BAGUIO CITY — Stronger regulations, and more testing, will be enforced on commercial wells and water-refilling stations serving the summer capital, given the stomach flu outbreak at the start of the year, Mayor Benjamin Magalong announced on Sunday. Acute gastroenteritis (digestive inflammation) and other diarrheal ailments, which may have infected up to 3,087 people as of the latest tally of “self-reported” cases, are associated with contaminated water or poor food hygiene. But as of Sunday, only three gastro cases have been recorded by the city health services office, said Dr. Celia Flor Brillantes, city health officer, during a Jan. 14 afternoon briefing. The epidemiological curve shows a sharp downtrend in infections since Jan. 9, indicating that the spread of the…
