If
you’re reading this and you’re at UWI
(University of the West Indies), then chances are you’ve probably heard
that one of your classmates has the Chikungunya Virus as reported on Wednesday
August 13th 2014 in the article “UWI
reports chikungunya case on Mona campus”, published Wednesday, August 13,
2014, The Jamaica Observer and “Chikungunya
shows up at UWI”, published Wednesday August 13, 2014 by Chad Bryan,
Gleaner Writer, The Jamaica Gleaner.
So
far the UWI Administration isn’t responding to calls from the Jamaica Observer or the Jamaica Gleaner to confirm whether
or not the person is one of the two (2) persons who received the Virus via
Local Transmission I.e. got bitten by an Aedes
aegypti Mosquito that’s acting a vector for the Chikungunya Virus. UWI also
began Malathion Spraying or Fogging as it’s colloquially called on Tuesday
August 12th 2014, going as far as 500 meter outside of the UWI
Campus.
Based
on the evidence presented in these articles as well as intel from my sources in
the Call Center as well as at UWI Campus, it appears that UWI has a serious
vector control problem as they’re gearing up for Local Spread of the
Chikungunya Virus on the campus.
In
essence this person is a third local Infection from the Chikungunya Virus. And
it’s set to spread come September 2014 when UWI re-opens for Classes.
And
according to Clinical Director of Health Services at the UWI, Dr Blossom
Anglin-Brown, this person is the wife of a Staff Member. Based on my UWI
Sources, she's a lecturer at the UWI. Still trying to get intel on which
faculty and exactly who's wife.
This
is certainly turning into a wild Goose Chase, but my Sources keep me well
informed, so I'm still in the loop.
Identity of the Second
Local Infection – Trinidadian Brings us Chikungunya Virus
My
Call Center Sources have never let me down and yesterday on Thursday August 14th
2014, I struck pay dirt!
Based
on my sources in the Call Center World again, they’re finally confirmed to me,
in Code, the identity of the second person that was confirmed on Monday July 28th
2014 as having contracted the Chikungunya Virus as I’d reported in my blog article
entitled “Ministry
of Health confirms four persons with Chikungunya Virus – Chic-V Just Turn Up in
the Hurricane Season as Ebola Virus is coming”.
According
to that Call Center Source, she was indeed a UWI Student, as she’d touched
based with their Call Center seeking information on the location of a pharmacy
in the Kingston Area.
In
fact, according to my Call Center Sources, the person is a female from Trinidad
and Tobago, having gone home to see her parents but returning to do a summer
Program Course.
So
I contacted my UWI sources on Social Media.
According
to them, she possibly resides on a Hall of Residence or has a boyfriend on the
Hall, her reason for returning to Jamaica. Again, for security reasons, I can’t
divulge the name of the person, save to say that contrary to what the Jamaica
Observer or the Jamaica Gleaner are guessing, she’s not an example of a local
Spread; she came from her home country with the disease.
UWI Fogging perimeter -
Chikungunya Virus will spread wild once Small Island Students return
So
with that cleared up for the second case confirmed on Monday July 28th
2014, it looks like this new person
makes it number three (3) in the Local infections List. Or is she?
Not
sure if UWI’s telling the truth about her being a UWI lecturer, as a quick
glance the UWI (University of the West
Indies) hasn’t revealed any names that immediately pop out at me.
I’m
thinking that Clinical Director of Health Services at the UWI, Dr Blossom
Anglin-Brown isn’t telling the truth, possibly to conceal the fact that there
may be a rampant local spread occurring on campus with many Summer Students and
Staff reporting Dengue like symptoms. Rather, it may indeed be another UWI
student that got the Chikungunya Virus.
I
come to this conclusion because of the way the UWI and the Ministry of Health
are responding.
First,
Director of emergency, disaster management and special services at the Ministry
of Health, Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse, despite UWI confirming that there is
indeed a person infected with the Chikungunya Virus, she's categorically
denying it, sticking to her story that there are only four persons, two
imported and two local, quote: “This is a preliminary result as we have not yet
received the results regarding this particular sample from our confirmatory
lab, which is the Caribbean Public Health Agency. At this time, therefore, this
is not considered a confirmed case.
The
numbers remain the same until further advised: four confirmed cases in total -
two imported and two as a result of local transmissions”.
Dr
Blossom Anglin-Brown claims the person received treatment and is recovering,
suggesting that she'd been ill for more than two weeks, possibly as far back as
the very first reported case on
Friday, July 18, 2014 as stated in my blog article
entitled “Chikungunya
Virus now confirmed in Jamaica - Female Traveller From Florida via Puerto Rico
and How to fight Chic-V”.
Is
it possible therefore that this “third persons” is indeed the very first person
that was infected on Friday, July 18th 2014 as reported in my blog
article above, the one my Call Center Sources said travelled from Florida
through Puerto Rico and resides in Portmore. If she's married to a UWI Staff
member and she’s a lecturer based on my UWI sources, she might be a
postgraduate student doing an MPhil or PhD program who teaches part-time.
It
would explain in part why UWI Guild President Lerone Laing plans to alert
Students via Social Media about the Chikungunya Virus and its symptoms, quote:
“We plan to use our social-media accounts … to educate the university students
who are coming in next week, and the new students, especially, about the virus
and the preventative measures that we could possibly take”.
Third Case of
Chikungunya Virus – Possibly Post Doctoral Student from a Caribbean island
Thus
some basic conclusions can be drawn here.
She’s
a Post Doctoral Student and has travelled within the Caribbean possibly going
home. She has a UWI staff member as her husband living in Portmore, as she may
actually be the very first imported case confirmed back on Friday, July 18th
2014.
If
she’s involved in Hall life as a Hall Director or involved in Hall activities
on a particular hall, it would explain the need for the UWI Guild President
Lerone Laing to spread information on symptoms of Chikungunya Virus via Social Media,
which only Millennials (ages 18 to 28) take seriously.
What
makes me believe that this is real is that the UWI scheduled on Tuesday August
12th 2014 Malathion Fogging of not only the Campus but 500 meters
outside of the UWI Campus, suggesting that they’re fearing local spread from
the Student population to the August Town and Papine Community.
Which
is just as well, as it’ll give me a chance to try out my experimental cure for the
Chikungunya Virus as detailed in my blog article entitled
“How
to fight Illness including Chikungunya Virus using Spices - US$40 Joseph Joseph
SpiceStore Carousel helps you organize”.
The
Ministry of Health has confirmed on Thursday, August 14th 2014 an
additional four (4) persons who have been locally infected with the Chikungunya
Virus via Mosquito bites as reported in the article “Chikungunya
cases reach eight”, published Thursday, August 14, 2014, The Jamaica Observer.
That
brings the total up to eight (8) i.e. six (6) local transmission and two (2)
imported.
It's
set to get worse as with Haitian now coming to Jamaica via boat, possibly carrying
the Chikungunya Virus, come Monday September 1st 2014, the returning
students from the rest of the Caribbean may be carrying Chikungunya Virus.
It’s
not a gift-wrapped present; it will be in their blood as a present for the
Jamaicans residing on the various Halls of Residence at the UWI Campus to
receive via the bite of an Aedes aegypti
Mosquito that will rapidly spread on the UWI Campus.
This
makes the UWI Mona Campus Ground Zero for Chikungunya Virus that's start in
Kingston and spread rapidly to the rest of Jamaica.
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