Acting chief medical officer, Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse, says community involvement and personal responsibility are important to reducing the breeding of the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is the vector that spreads the Chikungunya virus.
"We want community members to band together and take a day to clean up their communities, including their home, schools and churches in the areas. We also want businesses to get on board and do the same for their workplaces.
Breeding sites
We have to continue our efforts to search for and destroy mosquito breeding sites as this is the primary way in which we will be able to reduce the spread of chikungunya and other vector borne diseases," Dr DuCasse said.
As of September 12, 2014, 321 notifications were received and reviewed by the Ministry of which 183 met the case definition which means that they had the appropriate symptoms and have been deemed suspected cases of chikungunya.
Of the 183 suspected cases, 24 tested negative and were discarded and 25 were laboratory confirmed including an additional case confirmed by CARPHA on Friday.
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