Tag Archives: Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever in Trinidad and Tobago: What the recent monkey death reveals

Health alert: Yellow Fever found in monkey but no human cases yet.

Yellow Fever has re-emerged as a seasonal public health concern in Trinidad and Tobago following confirmation of the virus in a deceased red howler monkey. The Ministry of Health has verified the presence of the virus through laboratory testing, signalling active transmission in the environment despite no confirmed human infections. …

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Malaria is here, mosquitoes must go

Malaria

Thirteen cases of Malaria have been reported during the first months of 2018 in Trinidad and Tobago. The country was declared free of Malaria in 1965. Symptoms of Malaria are an intermittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite which invades the red blood cells and is transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. Once the parasites …

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