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Health cites S.I.D.S. outbreak concern
Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:00
Sophie Budvieta
An outbreak of disease is the biggest concern harboured by the Ministry of Health (M.O.H.) as it gears up for the Small Island Developing States (S.I.D.S.) Conference.
Talking exclusively to the Samoa Observer the Director General of Health, Leausa Dr Take Naseri, said that as many people were travelling to Samoa to take part in the event his department was preparing for all contingencies that may arise.
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?The Samoan population has not been exposed to any Chickungunya before,? he said.
?It is a new virus and we don't know how our systems are going to react to combat the virus."
?With the high rate of diabetes, hypertension, and all these non-communicable diseases you never know how the body will react and it may carry a high fatality rate."
?So that is the scary part.?
He said while reports from American Samoa were reading that many people were getting sick but were not dying, over here it may be slightly different.
?But we hope the disease will be like what we read on the studies done on it ? people get sick but they don't die of it,? he said.
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?We have lifted our boarder control level and have been spraying the international airports and international wharfs.?
?We are already spraying the airplanes on arrival especially the planes from American Samoa.?
Leausa said furthermore the M.O.H. is, in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (S.P.C.) and the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.), working on mass gathering disease surveillance.
According to America?s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.) implementing such surveillance might help detect outbreaks or possible acts of biologic terrorism and enable prompt public health intervention....
Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:00
Sophie Budvieta
An outbreak of disease is the biggest concern harboured by the Ministry of Health (M.O.H.) as it gears up for the Small Island Developing States (S.I.D.S.) Conference.
Talking exclusively to the Samoa Observer the Director General of Health, Leausa Dr Take Naseri, said that as many people were travelling to Samoa to take part in the event his department was preparing for all contingencies that may arise.
...
?The Samoan population has not been exposed to any Chickungunya before,? he said.
?It is a new virus and we don't know how our systems are going to react to combat the virus."
?With the high rate of diabetes, hypertension, and all these non-communicable diseases you never know how the body will react and it may carry a high fatality rate."
?So that is the scary part.?
He said while reports from American Samoa were reading that many people were getting sick but were not dying, over here it may be slightly different.
?But we hope the disease will be like what we read on the studies done on it ? people get sick but they don't die of it,? he said.
...
?We have lifted our boarder control level and have been spraying the international airports and international wharfs.?
?We are already spraying the airplanes on arrival especially the planes from American Samoa.?
Leausa said furthermore the M.O.H. is, in partnership with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (S.P.C.) and the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.), working on mass gathering disease surveillance.
According to America?s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C.) implementing such surveillance might help detect outbreaks or possible acts of biologic terrorism and enable prompt public health intervention....