Tuesday, December 23 2008

The media continues to hear reports of dengue cases. Two Canadian visitors staying in Ellerslie Park, St Clair contracted dengue fever while on a visit with relatives.

The husband and wife began coming down with symptoms more than a week ago with headache and chills. When the condition worsened, they sought treatment at St Clair Medical Centre.

Although the husband was discharged, the wife was hospitalised because tests showed that her platelet level had dropped and she was weak.

A relative of the couple told Newsday yesterday, “the ministry is not putting out an alert for foreigners to know what to expect. There are rumours of dengue going around.”

Her brother and his wife had planned to visit from the United States but when they heard about the dengue they “decided to cancel.” She said visitors should be alerted about the dengue problem because if they arrived here and got the disease “that would be worse” for the country.