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  • #16
    Dengue Death Toll Climbs To 135, Health Ministry Says

    By Abka Fitz-Henley
    Oct 08, 2019, 23:07 Pm05810
    There have been 135 suspected or confirmed deaths from dengue fever in Jamaica since January last year.

    Health Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton, made the disclosure in a statement to the House of Representatives this afternoon.

    Dr. Tufton says the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO, has characterized the dengue threat as a regional problem with links to global warming.
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    There have been 135 suspected or confirmed deaths from dengue fever in Jamaica since January last year. Health Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton, made the disclosure in a statement to the House of Representatives this afternoon. Dr. Tufton says the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO, has characterized the dengue threat as a regional problem with links […]
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    • #17
      Source: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/n...breeding-sites


      St Ann battling dengue cases, residents urged to reduce breeding sites
      Published:Wednesday | October 9, 2019 | 2:25 PM

      An appeal is being made for residents of St Ann to step up their elimination of mosquito breeding sites as sections of the parish are experiencing increases in suspected cases of dengue.

      This has resulted in an increased patient load at the St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital.

      Some health officials have expressed concern over the many cases being recorded at the hospital as "highly suspicious" of dengue...

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      • #18
        Source: http://jamaica-star.com/article/news...y-child-dengue


        Mother loses only child to dengue
        by Alicia Barrett - Star Writer
        November 06, 2019

        Imagine raising your only child until she is eight years old and then in the space of one week, lose her to illness?

        That is the reality of 32-year-old Simone Lewis, who lost her daughter Karrisa Downer to dengue on November 1...

        ...The Ministry of Health stated that since the start of 2019, there have been 5,468 suspected cases of dengue.

        Last month, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton announced that for the period January 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019, there were 135 suspected and confirmed dengue-related deaths.

        He said that 47 deaths were reported in 2018, while 88 occurred in 2019. Of that number, he said 10 occurred in September.

        The number of cases has been increasing for the past 10 weeks...

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        • #19
          Source: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...3?profile=1373

          Children aged 5 to 14 hardest hit by dengue
          BY KIMONE FRANCIS
          Senior staff reporter
          Wednesday, November 13, 2019

          MINISTER of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has disclosed that children between the ages of five and 14 account for the age group with the largest number of suspected and confirmed dengue-related deaths.

          The revelation was made during Tufton's statement to Parliament yesterday, where he stated that as at November 7, there were 61 suspected/confirmed deaths, of which 17 occurred in 2018 and 44 since the start of the year.

          The minister noted, too, that the highest rate of dengue cases was also among that age group, followed by children one to four years.

          As at November 7, the National Surveillance Unit received a total of 12,794 notifications for dengue between January 1, 2018, and November 7, 2019 — 2,235 in 2018 and 10,559 since 2019...

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          • #20
            Source: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...chester_179902

            524 suspected dengue cases in Manchester
            BY KASEY WILLIAMS
            Sunday Observer writer
            Sunday, November 17, 2019

            MANDEVILLE, Manchester — With the deadly dengue outbreak plaguing Jamaica, 524 suspected cases were reported here within the last month.

            The announcement was made last Thursday by the parish's Chief Public Health Inspector Charmaine Palmer-Cross at the monthly sitting on the Manchester Municipal Corporation.

            “In relation to the [dengue] cases the numbers fluctuate each week…. We [record] them by epi-week. For epiweek 41 we had 139; epi-week 42 there were 88; epi-week 43 we had 162; and epi-week 44 (last week) we had 135 [reported cases],” said Palmer-Cross...

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            • #21
              Source: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/l...pike-childrens


              Dengue crisis at ‘Busta’ - Deaths from mosquito-borne disease spike at children’s hospital
              Published:Tuesday | November 26, 2019 | 12:44 AMCorey Robinson/Staff Reporter

              Dengue mortality at the Bustamante Hospital for Children has jumped by more than 30 per cent this month, with five deaths being recorded compared to 15 over the previous 22 months.

              There were 20 dengue deaths confirmed, suspected or under investigation at Bustamante between January 1, 2018 and November 7 this year, the children’s hospital racking up the highest number of fatalities among public health facilities. St James’ Cornwall Regional Hospital is second with 15 deaths; followed by Mandeville Regional, with 11, and St Ann’s Bay Hospital, 10. Victoria Jubilee, a maternity hospital, is the only secondary or tertiary public medical facility that has not recorded a single dengue death. The private Andrews Memorial has had one case and the quasi-public University Hospital of the West Indies, one...

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              • #22
                Source: https://www.iriefm.net/health-minist...nce-last-year/

                Health ministry reports 63 dengue related deaths since last year
                by Myesha Broadie November 28th, 2019

                Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jacqueline Bisasor-Mckenzie says, there have been 63 dengue related deaths between 2018 and November 21 of this year.

                Speaking at a press conference at the Ministry of Health and Wellness in Kingston today, (November 28), she noted that, of the sixty-three dengue related deaths, most of them were children below fourteen years old...

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                • #23
                  Source: https://www.stlucianewsonline.com/ja...lay-treatment/

                  Jamaica: 9 year old dies of dengue – Mother makes plea to parents not to delay treatment
                  By Jamaica Gleaner
                  January 9, 2020

                  (JAMAICA GLEANER) – When nine-year-old Naylia Lewis complained about a slight headache last week Monday, little did her mother, Kerry Ann Davis, know that the next few days would be her daughter’s last.

                  Lewis died on Saturday from what was presumed to be severe dengue with shock, according to her death certificate.

                  She would have turned 10 years old on January 30.

                  Naylia is one of dozens of Jamaicans who have been killed by the mosquito-borne disease since 2018 in a regional epidemic of record proportions.

                  In Jamaica, there were at least 44 deaths between January 1 and November 7, 2019, and more than 10,500 notifications, more than half classified as suspected, presumed or confirmed – the latest data provided by the Ministry of Health and Wellness. There were more than 2.7 million cases in the Americas in 2019 alone...

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                  • #24
                    Source: https://www.stlucianewsonline.com/ja...ctions-plunge/

                    Jamaica: Dengue deaths hit 81 but infections plunge
                    By Jamaica Gleaner
                    January 16, 2020

                    (JAMAICA GLEANER) – More than 81 Jamaicans have died in the worst dengue fever outbreak to have hit the island in a generation, but data provided by the Ministry of Health and Wellness show that incidence of the mosquito-borne disease appeared to fall sharply over the last two months.

                    There were 1,341 notifications of suspected, presumed, and confirmed cases of dengue recorded in October, but those numbers plunged to 833 in November and 294 in December. October’s cases were the second greatest incidence last year as 1,960 notifications were issued in January...

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