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Mauritius prepares for Chikungunya
Mauritius prepares for Chikungunya
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="580"><tbody><tr><td class="text" style="color: rgb(116, 116, 116);">September 17, 2006, 21 hours, 48 minutes and 12 seconds ago.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text" style="color: rgb(153, 102, 0);"> By ANDnetwork .com
</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mauritius (AND) Deputy Prime Minister Rashid Beebeejaun, who chairs the National Committee on chikungunya, has appealed for Mauritians to fight the mosquito (aedes albopicutus) that transmits the virus. This campaign, he said, would save the population from other diseases as well
</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text">Mauritius has launched a competition in all towns and villages to sensitise the population to keep their environment clean so as to keep diseases and pollution away. Environment Minister Anil Baichoo said he wants a clean and beautiful island. The winner of the competition will be announced on World Environment Day 2007.
Participating in the Clean up the World Campaign, this weekend, at Poste-de-Flacq, in north-east Mauritius, the Minister called for a national effort to embellish the island.
Baichoo said diseases are easily propagated by waste and pollution damages the environment. “Both are detrimental to our vulnerable economy,” he added.
The Minister also announced new regulations to allow for special places where posters could be placed.
“We are not aiming at 100% success but like in the case of plastic bags, we hope people would cooperate,” he said. Free distribution of plastic bags at supermarkets, markets and shops is banned since July last year.
Meanwhile, a new campaign to sensitise the population on the need to fight the viral disease chikungunya, as summer approaches, has also been launched.
Health authorities have called on the population to stay vigilant as the disease, that caused havoc among the population last year, could re-appear again in the island this summer that starts in a few weeks’ time.
The near-by island of La Réunion, where several hundred thousand people were infected last summer, and from where the disease reached Mauritius, is on the alert again.
Several thousands cases of Chikungunya have also been reported in India, where thousands of Mauritians travel every year.
Deputy Prime Minister Rashid Beebeejaun, who chairs the National Committee on chikungunya, has appealed for Mauritians to fight the mosquito (aedes albopicutus) that transmits the virus.
This campaign, he said, would save the population from other diseases as well.
Officially, 8500 people were infected with chikungunya from January to July last year. The five regional hospitals of the island were always full with people complaining of fever, muscular pains, swelling, headache, which are the main symptoms for this disease.
The outbreak of chikungunya in Mauritius hit the economy of the island, particularly the tourism industry, one of its main economic pillars.
Thousands of foreign tourists cancelled their trip to the island, causing some concern to the government whose plan is to make the industry the main pillar of its economy in the coming years.
Mauritius Bureau, AND
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mauritius (AND) Deputy Prime Minister Rashid Beebeejaun, who chairs the National Committee on chikungunya, has appealed for Mauritians to fight the mosquito (aedes albopicutus) that transmits the virus. This campaign, he said, would save the population from other diseases as well
</td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="text">Mauritius has launched a competition in all towns and villages to sensitise the population to keep their environment clean so as to keep diseases and pollution away. Environment Minister Anil Baichoo said he wants a clean and beautiful island. The winner of the competition will be announced on World Environment Day 2007.
Participating in the Clean up the World Campaign, this weekend, at Poste-de-Flacq, in north-east Mauritius, the Minister called for a national effort to embellish the island.
Baichoo said diseases are easily propagated by waste and pollution damages the environment. “Both are detrimental to our vulnerable economy,” he added.
The Minister also announced new regulations to allow for special places where posters could be placed.
“We are not aiming at 100% success but like in the case of plastic bags, we hope people would cooperate,” he said. Free distribution of plastic bags at supermarkets, markets and shops is banned since July last year.
Meanwhile, a new campaign to sensitise the population on the need to fight the viral disease chikungunya, as summer approaches, has also been launched.
Health authorities have called on the population to stay vigilant as the disease, that caused havoc among the population last year, could re-appear again in the island this summer that starts in a few weeks’ time.
The near-by island of La Réunion, where several hundred thousand people were infected last summer, and from where the disease reached Mauritius, is on the alert again.
Several thousands cases of Chikungunya have also been reported in India, where thousands of Mauritians travel every year.
Deputy Prime Minister Rashid Beebeejaun, who chairs the National Committee on chikungunya, has appealed for Mauritians to fight the mosquito (aedes albopicutus) that transmits the virus.
This campaign, he said, would save the population from other diseases as well.
Officially, 8500 people were infected with chikungunya from January to July last year. The five regional hospitals of the island were always full with people complaining of fever, muscular pains, swelling, headache, which are the main symptoms for this disease.
The outbreak of chikungunya in Mauritius hit the economy of the island, particularly the tourism industry, one of its main economic pillars.
Thousands of foreign tourists cancelled their trip to the island, causing some concern to the government whose plan is to make the industry the main pillar of its economy in the coming years.
Mauritius Bureau, AND
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