Following major flooding in the country, Region Six is reporting 67 cases of dengue and five cases of leptospirosis.
Regional Chairman, David Armogan, during a press briefing in Region Six yesterday, relayed that that while there are 67 cases of the mosquito-borne dengue presently there has not been any major escalation since.
“A number of areas are pretty dry, Black Bush Polder they don’t have much difficulties with flooding and so, and a lot of those cases came out from Black Bush too”, he said.
The first case was reported about three weeks ago, Armogan noted.
Additionally, Armogan reported, that there have been at least five cases of the animal-borne bacterial infection leptospirosis “That too has been treated and those persons are well… We haven’t had any deaths.”
Questioned about systems put in place by the health department as it relates to these illnesses, Armogan said, “What they have done, they have packaged some tablets and they were giving it to people in the areas where they found that there was dengue.”
The chairman added “we are doing a lot of spraying in these areas.”
