Jamaica’s health minister Fenton Ferguson said Sunday that the Simpson-Miller administration is doing all it can to combat Chikungunya – a newly arrived mosquito-borne virus that...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is formalizing recommendations to deal with any possible incidence of the Ebola virus and is also improving efforts to respond to the...
The head of the Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA), James Hospedales, has declared that the Chikungunya virus has reached epidemic proportions in the Caribbean region. According...
St. Lucia has recorded its first case of the mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya. However, the national epidemiologists director in the country’s Ministry of Health, Nehum Jn Baptiste,...
(GIS) – With the issue of the chikungunya virus becoming a serious public health threat as cases continue to increase in some Caribbean island-states, Grenada’s Health...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC) says new cases of the chikungunya virus are springing up in the Caribbean. The ECDPC said in...
Health officials in Dominica have confirmed 31 cases of chikungunya. Chikungunya, which is an infection, causes an illness with a similar mode of transmission as dengue...
Dominica has recorded its first case of the chikungunya virus but health officials say there is no cause for alarm. “We can confirm that we have...
Chikungunya a mosquito-borne virus appears to be spreading quickly in the Caribbean during the winter tourism season just weeks after epidemiologists first found local transmission occurring...
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Tuesday said that for the first time, locally acquired cases of chikungunya have been detected in the...
