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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Trinidad & Tobago : Two-year-old among ten suspected with dengue

Via News Day, excerpt :

" EVEN as focus continues on flood victims there have been ten new cases of suspected dengue cases. Among them, is a two-year-old La Brea boy who remains warded at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) while the other persons were receiving medical attention at their homes in Gasparillo and Palmiste, south Trinidad.

Two-year-old Joel Felix, of Vance River, was rushed to the hospital one week ago after he began experiencing pains about his body and “high fever”. “Last week Sunday we had first rushed him to the Point Fortin Health Facility which was closer after he was extremely hot with fever, and he kept crying and screaming in pain,” said Joel’s father, Lyndon Felix, who is also a police corprol at the Santa Flora Police Station.

“These past days have turned out to be the worst, because we went crazy. He kept crying, and we did not know what to do because they were telling us at Point Fortin that he did not have dengue. It was just a fever and an allergy,” Felix told Newsday. He said that his wife and him had no other choice but to return home with their son.

“We know the way he was looking that it was not just a growing fever. So we rushed him to the San Fernando Hospital the next day,” he said. Felix said that baby Joel was admitted to the ward and after tests were done, “doctors told us that he had dengue”.

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