Jamaican Chikungunya Virus cover-up - JA$10,000 for Chikungunya Virus Test as Tropical Storm Edouard boost Aedes aegypti Mosquito

Folks, it’s becoming clear to the Jamaican people that both the Minister of Health Dr. Fenton Ferguson and Director, Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services, Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse are lying about the true extent of the spread of the Chikungunya Virus as I’d pointed out in my blog article entitled “10 Cases of Chikungunya Virus in Jamaica – How a Hurricane coming December 2014 will accelerate its spread”.

JLP (Jamaica Labour Party) Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Kenneth Baugh is sounding the alarm of a potential hidden Chikungunya Virus Epidemic as stated in the article “JLP insists Jamaica has a chikungunya epidemic”, published Wednesday, September 10, 2014 12:51 PM, The Jamaica Observer. 

His concern echoes public opinion as stated in this letter to the Editor “ONLINE READERS COMMENT: Bullock DuCasse may have misled us on chikungunya”, published Monday, September 08, 2014 4:06 PM, The Jamaica Observer, as many are now of the belief that I came to based on that blog article above.

The true extent of the Chikungunya Virus spread is probably more like 200 infected, as it can’t be that after only two months, we only have 24 confirmed cases of the Chikungunya Virus as pointed out in my blog article entitled “24 Chikungunya Virus Cases - Ministry of Health PR Game as Mr. Baugh states Chikungunya Viruses Cases underreported”.

CARPHA Stats on Chic-V – We’ve not experience the full brunt of the Chikungunya Virus in the Caribbean

So let me throw some stats onto the subject!

The Chikungunya Virus is now in every Caribbean territory, with some 600,000 Cases in the Caribbean and 9000 confirmed infected according to CARPHA (Caribbean Public Health Agency) Executive Director Dr James Hospedales in the article “Caribbean warned to brace for full impact of Chikungunya”, published Wednesday, September 03, 2014 6:47 AM, The Jamaica Observer.

According to him, we’ve not really fully experienced the Chikungunya Virus at its fullest, as it hasn’t infected all of 17 million people in the Caribbean, to quote CARPHA Executive Director Dr James Hospedales: “I am saying because everybody in this part of the world and there is no resistance to this virus and we have an abundance of the vector and we have a lot of movement.

Continuing on his rant, quote: “In six months it has moved to all the islands and we can expect further increases in levels of cases based on what has happened elsewhere in the world where in some countries you find a 30 per cent attack rate of the entire population within a year or so. So (adhere) to the message that all the governments have been putting out to reduce the breeding of mosquitoes around the home and very importantly for somebody who thinks they have chikungunya…that they take measures to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes to avoid spreading it to their families and neighbours”.

JA$12 million for Vector control using Malathion Spraying that’s no longer being visibly seen in action and a single Isolation Ward in case the Ebola Virus decides to make a stopover in Jamaica 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” isn’t going to prevent an epidemic!

Delano Seiveright and the St. Thomas Cover-up – Long sleeved and DEET to be safe

JLP (Jamaica Labour Party) Caretaker for St Thomas Eastern, Delano Seiveright echoes concerns St. Thomas residents with symptoms of the Chikungunya Virus who are being turned away by Health Care Workers. For the record, those Dengue-like symptoms are:

1.      Headache

2.      High fever

3.      Joint pain (like Jaundice or Rheumatic Fever)

4.      Muscle pain

5.      Rash (not very good, this one)

If you’re feeling ill, you can use my cure for the Chikungunya Virus based on common herbs and spices 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”. If you’re not a believer in Alternative Medicine, you have few options as not only is there's no cure but you can’t take aspirin, ibuprofen or diclofenac for the arthritic pain.

Wear long-sleeved clothing and rub on DEET as well as Citronella Oil are really your only options at this point, as prevention is really better than cure. Your choice folks!

As for JLP (Jamaica Labour Party) Caretaker for St Thomas Eastern, Delano Seiveright, albeit he’s no doctor, these persons should be put on observation or being tested so as to be sure, suggesting that a PR Cover-up may be afoot as I’ve concluded in my blog article entitled “24 Chikungunya Virus Cases - Ministry of Health PR Game as Mr. Baugh states Chikungunya Viruses Cases underreported”.

With a disease with such debilitating after-effects, you REALLY wanna be sure!

Tropical Storm Edouard forms off Africa – From a Storm in a Teacup to a potential Hurricane

Well, just as this storm in a teacup began brewing, Mother Nature saw it fit to give birth to yet another member of the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane.

Friday September 12^th 2014 marks the date when Tropical Storm Edouard was born as stated in the article “Tropical Storm Edouard forms in Atlantic”, published Friday, September 12, 2014 8:12 AM, The Jamaica Observer.

According to the list of names to be used for this year’s 2014 Hurricane Season, Tropical Storm Edouard is number 5 as stated in my blog article entitled “2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season looking Fairly Quiet - How Hurricanes are formed as Hurricane making Landfall equals Disaster”.

Although it's not yet a Hurricane, they're usually crowned with a name once their wind speeds reach above 39 mph. This is of greatest concern to Jamaica as although this hurricane is off the Coast of Africa and may miss us as they usually do, it'll be packing the rains and disturbed weather. That's DEFINATELY coming our way, as it'll create enough atmospheric protuberances in the Caribbean to at least drench us with several feet of Rain.

In other words, more breeding grounds for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, making it a little harder to deny that there is a cover-up as this is basically a boost to this vector that usually carries Dengue.

More signs of a Cover-up - JA$10,000 to do a private test to determine if you have Chikungunya Virus

That’s right!

If you suspect that you have symptoms of the disease, and you decided to forgo the free testing by the Public Health Care workers is going to a private facility, you'll have to fork out JA$10,000 to pay for a private test, according to JLP (Jamaica Labour Party) Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Kenneth Baugh in the article “Private Patients Pay Thousands For Chik-V Test”, Published Friday September 12, 2014, The Jamaica Gleaner.

This as there are anecdotal reports of persons from the St. Thomas area coming down with symptoms of the Chikungunya Virus but being told by Public Health Care workers that they're not ill with the disease, even though the symptoms match as noted in this letter to the Editor “Chikungunya cover-up?”, Published Wednesday September 10, 2014, The Jamaica Gleaner.

Apparently they're under instructions to rule out the possibility that the persons may be suffering from another illness such as influenza and Dengue, albeit these are EQUALLY serious illness that deserve treatment, to quote Minister of Health, Dr. Fenton Ferguson during a Tuesday September 9^th 2014 meeting at the Ministry of Health: “At this time of year we traditionally see an increase in cases of influenza and dengue and the symptoms are very similar to chikungunya. It is important that doctors rule out these and other illnesses with similar symptoms before concluding that a patient has chikungunya so that we can have a true picture of the viruses that are circulating.”

There is also growing concern, as expressed by the President of the BITU (Bustamante Industrial Trade Union ), Senator Kavan Gayle, that there may indeed be a cover-up, as very little in the way of PR (Public Relations) is being done to educate persons about what to do to avoid getting the Chikungunya Virus as stated in the article “BITU calls for more action to combat Chikungunya”, published Monday, September 08, 2014 9:09 PM, The Jamaica Observer.

So with Hurricane Season Ramping up powered by the excess Solar Radiation pouring through the Earth’s weakened Magnetic Field as it gets cooler toward 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”, the Aedes aegypti Mosquito will now definitely multiply unchecked.

Especially as the Ministry of Health is more concerned about countries where our Tourists come from getting scared and advising travelers to avoid Jamaica due to a Chikungunya Virus Epidemic that they’re trying to hide as noted in my blog article entitled “Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar's CARICOM Meeting - Preventing Caribbean Chikungunya Virus and Ebola Virus Epidemic by Christmas 2014”.