Via News Day :
" TWO MORE suspected cases of dengue fever have been reported with the patients recovering at the San Fernando General Hospital. With an increase in the number of suspected cases, some people are asking if spraying alone could control the aedes aegypti mosquito which is the carrier of the disease.
Sources said that the two latest suspected cases, 17-year-old Annilla Ramahdar of Mac Aulay, Couva and 54-year-old Winston Abdul, are both resting under mosquito nets at the hospital. The two who spoke to Newsday from under their nets yesterday, said they were informed by doctors that several tests on them, had brought back a positive reading for the virus.
Ramahdar said that some weeks ago, after officials from the insect vector control sprayed the area where she lives in Mac Aulay, Claxton Bay within a short period the mosquitoes returned. “I don’t know...it’s like the spraying is not working. The spraying does not seem to help since soon after (the spraying was done) the mosquitoes came back,” Ramahdar said. "
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