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Monday, December 12, 2005
Cayman. The Public Health Department, the Mosquito Research and Control Unit and the Department of Environmental Health, is closely monitoring the situation.
Medical Officer of health, Dr. Kiran Kumar stressed dengue fever is not endemic to Cayman, and the Islands annually see only two to three imported dengue cases per year. Furthermore, the Aedes mosquitoes known to transmit the disease, have a very low density locally.
Dr. Kumar said the recent local transmission most likely took place when a returning resident or visitor from a dengue endemic country, contracted the disease overseas, and was bitten by a mosquito on the Islands. The same mosquito that bit the infected person then bit a healthy person and thus transmitted the disease. Some symptoms include high fever, severe headache, eye pain, naseau and vomitting.
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