(PAGASA 24-HOUR PUBLIC WEATHER FORECAST as of Friday, 11 July 2025) The Southwest Monsoon (Habagat) continues to affect Mindanao. FORECAST: The Zamboanga Peninsula will experience cloudy skies with scattered rain showers and thunderstorms due to the Southwest Monsoon. These conditions may lead to possible flash floods or landslides, especially during moderate to occasionally heavy rainfall. The rest of Mindanao will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms also influenced by the Southwest Monsoon. Winds will be light to moderate from the southwest, with slight to moderate seas (wave height between 0.6 to 2.1 meters).


Monday, August 25, 2014

Agusan del Sur eyes rabies free this year

By Millisent Omen

PATIN-AY, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur, Aug. 25 (PIA) – The provincial government here is aiming to make the province a rabies free this year.

The Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO), through its Rabies Control Program is targeting 17,500 dogs to be vaccinated until the end of this year provincewide.

Seven municipalities namely Prosperidad, Loreto, Trento, San Francisco, Rosario, Esperanza and Veruela and the lone city of Bayugan already participated during the scheduled massive vaccination with the full support of their respective municipal and city agriculturists and veterinarians.

Aside from massive vaccination, distribution of information, education and communication materials containing how deadly rabies are, and the ways on how it can inflect human that are distributed to the public, rabies symposia and orientation on responsible pet ownership are also conducted in different schools provincewide.

The PVO will also conduct rabies disease surveillance to support in controlling and preventing zoonotic diseases in the province. Some 12,200 dogs were already vaccinated and this activity will go on until December of this year.


The provincial government has set aside P30,000 budget for all the activities lined up for the rabies control program thru its anti-rabies trust fund. (Provincial Veterinary Office Information Officer, Agusan del Sur/PIA-Agusan del Sur)