Animal excrement concern

HEALTH AUTHORITIES ARE concerned about people who walk their dogs on the beach and leave their excrement there.
It comes in the wake of several reports of sea bathers contracting cutaneous larva migrans, a disease that penetrates the outer layers of the skin, leaving wormlike burrows that are clearly visible.
Investigations are being conducted at some of the island’s popular beaches including Browne’s Beach at Bay Street, St Michael.
Chief Environmental Health Officer Tyrone Applewhite said already his department had two meetings with other Government agencies, including the National Conservation Commission (NCC) that has responsibility for the island’s beaches, to put a plan in place to deal with the problem.
 
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