“These
two cases include a previously suspected one on the campus of the University of
the West Indies. The affected parishes remain St Thomas, St Catherine, St Ann
and Kingston and St Andrew. We want to stress that personal responsibility is
important to reduce the spread of Chikungunya and urge persons to place major
emphasis on finding and destroying mosquito breeding sites”
Director, Emergency,
Disaster Management and Special Services, Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse commenting
on the latest Chikungunya Virus cases
Boy,
do I have a problem keeping up with this Chikungunya Virus!
Looks
like the suspected case at UWI (University
of the West Indies) is a genuine case
of a Local Transmission despite my speculation in my blog article
entitled “UWI
reports Staffer with Chikungunya Virus - Ground Zero for Islandwide Infection
as it'll spread wild once Small Island Students Return”. This individual
did indeed travel abroad but apparently didn’t get the Chikungunya Virus
abroad. Rather they caught it via local Transmission.
This
as of Friday August 15th 2014, the number of cases has reached ten
(10) in total as proclaimed in the article “Chikungunya
cases in Jamaica now at 10”, published Friday, August 15, 2014 8:14 PM, The Jamaica Observer.
This
disease is spreading fairly briskly as it was on Thursday August 14th
2014 that we had eight (8) persons as noted in the article “Chikungunya
cases reach eight”, published Thursday, August 14, 2014, The Jamaica Observer.
It’s
now in the following parishes:
1.
Kingston and St. Andrew
2.
St. Thomas
3.
St. Catherine
4.
St. Ann
I’m
feeling lucky; it hasn’t reached Clarendon…..yet!
10 Cases of Chikungunya
Virus in Jamaica – Hurricane in December may accelerate its spread
Ok,
so including the Post Graduate UWI Staffer and another person, that bring ups
the total to 10!
That’s
8 Local 2 imported for those of you keeping score. With that person, the Post
Graduate UWI Staffer as I call her now CONFIRMED to be a genuine case of Local Transmission;
it suggests that one of the imported cases must be from UWI.
Possibly
the Trinidadian girl as my sources have so reliably informed me I’m sure was
the second imported case of the Chikungunya Virus! This as the Chikungunya
Virus has now claimed 80 infected in Trinidad and Tobago as of Friday August 15th
2014, according to Trinidad Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan as stated in the
article “As
many as 80 infected with Chikungunya -- TT health minister”, published
Friday, August 15, 2014 7:32 AM, The
Jamaica Observer.
Thus
my blog article’s assumption about the Post Graduate UWI Staffer being a case
of imported wasn’t correct, due to my assumption that the mis-communication
between Ministry of Health, Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse and Clinical Director of
Health Services at the UWI, Dr Blossom Anglin-Brown suggested they were hiding
intel.
This
now suggests, as I’d expected, that UWI is going to become Ground Zero for a
mass infection with the Chikungunya Virus by the Aedes Aegypti Mosquito acting as it’s vector. More Caribbean
students, like the Trinidadian girl in my article will be coming to Jamaica
with the Chikungunya Virus in their blood, creating more local Transmission.
At
that point, local and imported transmission will be indistinguishable, as with
the wet conditions predicted to be coming by December 2014 in my blog article
entitled “ESA's
Swarm Says the Earth's Magnetic Field is Weakening - How Weakening Magnetic
Field results in hotter Summer Days and Hurricanes in Christmas 2014”, the Aedes Aegypti Mosquito will multiply
unchecked.
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