Friday, February 3 2012

THE Health Ministry yesterday issued a media release stating that its Insect Vector Control Division office for Victoria East/Nariva/ Mayaro received a report of one case of dengue on January 26. As part of the investigation into the case the IVCD Unit visited the patient’s home on January 27 and the patient’s school St Thomas RC in Mayaro on January 30.

“A thorough investigation of the school was carried out during the visit, in an effort to identify breeding sites of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, as well as to treat stagnant bodies of immovable water with the larvicidal agent Temephos,” the release stated.

The ministry reported that upon completion of perifocal work (used to kill mosquitoes breeding sites), “the school was informed that active breeding of the Aedes Aegypti was found within the guttering system, as well as in a large water receptacle on site.”

Spraying (fogging) was done on Wednesday at homes in the vicinity of the school and ultra low volume spraying of 300 to 600 homes yesterday.