KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Health has confirmed the death of a Manchester patient who had contracted the severe form of dengue fever – dengue haemorrhagic fever – since the start of the year.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Sheila Campbell Forrester expressed condolences to the family members of the individual, and is urging people to be vigilant in identifying and destroying mosquito breeding sites.
“Dengue can only be transmitted when an aedes aegypti mosquito bites an infected person and then bites another. It is therefore important that we take steps to prevent the breeding of this mosquito and protect ourselves from being bitten by mosquitoes,” she said in a release from the Ministry of Health.
Jamaica has now recorded 120 confirmed cases of dengue fever, including three cases of dengue haemorrhagic fever. (Gleaner/Power 106 News)
