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	The new patients lived in the same house as a 45-year-old woman who was diagnosed with the virus in the central city of Iloilo last month, becoming the first locally transmitted case of Zika in the country.</div>
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	&quot;All three cases have since recovered from their mild illness and did not require hospitalisation,&quot; Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial said, adding that the patients were quarantined at home.</div>
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	The three had no history of travel and were likely to have been infected through mosquito bites, the health department said.</div>
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	Before the woman in Iloilo, four cases of Zika were reported in the Philippines but those people were believed to have been infected while travelling abroad.</div>
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	In 2012, a 15-year-old boy in the central province of Cebu tested positive for the virus but no transmissions were reported.</div>
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	The Zika virus, which is believed to cause brain damage in babies, is transmitted by mosquitoes that also cause dengue fever.</div>
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Philippines reports three locally transmitted cases of Zika virus

Manila - Two more Filipinos were found to be infected with the Zika virus, bringing to three the number of locally transmitted cases in the Philippines, the health secretary said Tuesday.