Daily Tribune correspondent wins award for health story
Tacloban-based reporter Elmer Recuerdo's five-part story, titled 'Schistosomiasis adds to poverty burden,' published from 11 to 15 September, detailed how the infectious disease continues to affect the lives of the poor in Leyte, where the parasitic host snail was discovered in 1906

TRIBUNE correspondent Elmer Recuerdo’s piece on schistosomiasis had to be spread out in five parts for its exhaustive exposition on the parasitic infection.


