December 23, 2020
Amid all the focus on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s another lurking challenge that equally needs our attention, dengue fever.
We have just emerged from the rainy season, which brought persistent and heavy rains compared to recent years.
And with damp conditions came the pesky Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the carrier of the virus.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth George reported at the start of November that the Ministry of Health was concerned about the increase in probable and suspected cases when compared to last year.
According to Dr George, there have been 38 hospitalisations so far this year related to suspected and confirmed cases of dengue fever.