Mombasa county has deployed experts from the Health Department to investigate the Aedes aegypti female mosquitoes that spread Dengue fever. Dengue fever, whose symptoms include a high fever, headache, vomiting, muscle and joint pains and a characteristic skin rash, was first reported in the region in 2017. However, the Dengue fever outbreak was reported in April, when Mombasa had not received the long rains. Mombasa health chief officer Pauline Oginga said the experts are trying to establish why the outbreak was reported before the long rains. Random blood samples collected from the patients suspected of Dengue fever in different health facilities from March 12 to April 7 and submitted to Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Lab at Kenya Medical Research Institute Nairobi confirmed the outbreak.

Source: The Star May 05, 2021 19:07 UTC