The latest data from the sentinel local cell of Health confirm that we remain in inter-epidemic phase. SMN News understands that there are over 100 suspected cases of dengue with over 50 confirmed cases during the month of September.
Given the climatic conditions favoring the development of mosquitoes, preventive measures should be implemented without delay, rigorously. It was at this stage they are most effective.
In addition to these measures of prevention, insecticide spraying campaign continues on the island of Saint Martin.
A management committee against dengue will be held in the prefecture Friday October 24th at 2:30PM to review the local situation.
The prefecture of St. Barthelemy and St. Martin has issued yet another call to residents of the islands to the necessary precautionary measures to effectively fight against the proliferation of single mosquito carrier for dengue, Aedes Aepypti. Measures must be taken to safeguard you and your family in and around your home a press release from the Prefecture states.
The measures that needed to be taken are as follows:-
- Avoid mosquito bites in the morning and evening, using sprays or creams repellents, ask your pharmacist
- Wear long evening clothes
- Install screens on doors and windows in your home, sleep under mosquito nets to avoid bites in the morning, especially young children and the elderly
- Be sure to eliminate stagnation of water in your homes and around your houses because stagnation of clear water are the breeding places of mosquitoes: also monitor your pots and flower pot below
- Protect the cistern of your home of the proliferation of mosquitoes with a canvas net
- If your cistern is not treated, you can develop a golomines fish that eat mosquitoe larvaes Aedes aegypti and therefore it should reduce the proliferation
- Periodically clean your gutters make sure they remain clean after rain episodes
- Check the health of your septic tank
- When moving equipment spraying insecticides, widely open your doors and windows,
These recommendations apply to the entire population of both islands which would help to limit the transmission of dengue by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito carrier alone.
It is recalled that dengue fever is a viral disease, popularly regarded as a tropical flu, which results in high fever accompanied by headaches, aches, fatigue of a major may take several weeks to overcome.
It is strongly recommended that persons who believes they have the dengue should avoid taking aspirin and other anti-inflammatories because of the risk of bleeding and more generally to avoid self medicating
Persons who have dengue like symptoms should also consult their doctor who may prescribe a blood test. It is a disease for which there is no preventive treatment or specific treatment or vaccine to date.
