And
now there are 21 Cases of Chikungunya!
This
was confirmed from the just received samples from the Director, Emergency,
Disaster Management and Special Services, Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse, who has
just received the results of the tests conducted by CARPHA (Caribbean Public
Health Agency) on four more person suspected of being infected with the
disease.
Those
results came out on Friday August 29th 2014 as stated in “Four
additional cases of Chikungunya confirmed”, published Friday, August 29,
2014 7:55 PM, The Jamaica Observer.
Forgive
me for being late in publishing this, but I had the small matter of travelling
back to Swallowfield, Kingston to attend to as chronicled in my blog article
entitled “Folks,
I'm back in Swallowfield - Saturday and Sunday are Blogger Maintenance Day so
no blogging".
The
Jamaica Gleaner is no better, having alerted
in my RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed in Mozilla Thunderbird via their
article “Four
Additional Cases Of Chikungunya Confirmed”, Published: Sunday August 31,
2014, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Dr Marion Bullock
DuCasse is famous – My Parish Clarendon is Chic-V free even as I drown in
mosquitoes
People,
if nobody knew Director, Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services,
Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse, she famous now, as her pictures is plastered all
over the Traditional Media, both Newspapers and via Radio and Television
interviews.
Even
as the Ebola Virus is knocking at our door as stated in my blog article
entitled “Trinidad
PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar's CARICOM Meeting - Preventing Caribbean Chikungunya
Virus and Ebola Virus Epidemic by Christmas 2014”. Still waiting on the
outcome of that meeting though!
This
latest batch of infected four means that we have:
1. 2
imported cases
2. 1
case that's not quite defined i.e. the Post Graduate UWI Staffer
3. 18
local infections
That
undefined case is explained in greater detail in my blog article
entitled “10
Cases of Chikungunya Virus in Jamaica – How a Hurricane coming December 2014
will accelerate its spread”.
The
infected parishes, oddly, remain the same:
1. Kingston
and St. Andrew
2. St.
Thomas
3. St.
Catherine
4. St.
Ann
I’m
feeling unlucky right now, as I type this. It’s damp and wet outside of the
place that I live and I wish I was in any one of those un-infected parishes,
such as my beloved Clarendon which is Chikungunya virus Free…..for now!
Children and Back to
School – DEET and Citronella are the new Trending Perfumes on the Playground
That's
not including the 50 suspected cases that the Ministry of Health and the Public
Hospitals have to sort through in order to ascertain how many are REALLY
affected.
To
this end, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Local Government are
partnering to jump-start the Hurricane Preparedness plan so as to at least
start drain and gully cleaning and thus reduce the sites that the mosquitoes
have to breed as noted in my blog article
entitled “JA$12
million for Vector Control by Minister of Health - 50 Suspected Cases indicates
Panic, not Chikungunya, is spreading”.
With
the heavy rains now falling as I’ve predicted with a possible Hurricane in
December 2014 as predicted 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”, this
threat is looking more real than I'd imagined.
Even
during my walkabout in Cross Roads, I noticed that most of the wholesales are beginning
to stock up on Citronella and DEET. You can also get the Mosquito Zapper as
well, albeit at elevated prices.
With
school starting on Monday September 1st 2014, I suspect children
will be smelling good from head to toe. But not from their new clothes!
Rather,
it’ll be the latest fashion on the playground, the parents might tell their
children; it's called Citronella Oil and DEET. No doubt the parents have told
their children to rub it on ever so often and kill any mosquito before it bites
them. Also if they don’t wear their Citronella Oil, nature’s Mosquito repellant
as described in my Geezam blog article
entitled “How
to make Environmentally Friendly Citronella (Lemon Grass) Oil for Mosquito
Repellant Lotion and Candles” or no
sweets of candies or going outside!
Parents
are fearful for their children dying from the Chikungunya Virus or worse,
getting an ugly Rash and Jaundice-like Arthritic pains.
If
anything, there's always my cure for the Chikungunya Virus as I’d detailed in my
blog article
entitled “How
to fight Illness including Chikungunya Virus using Spices - US$40 Joseph Joseph
SpiceStore Carousel helps you organize”. This as our inept Ministry of
Health, Ministry of Education and now the Ministry of Local Government will
leave us to drown in a sea of Chikungunya Virus-laden Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes.
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