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Jamaica Confirms First Case Of The Zika Virus
Published:Saturday | January 30, 2016 | 9:45 AM
The Ministry of Health has confirmed one case of the Zika virus in Jamaica. The patient who has now recovered is a four year old child from Portmore, St Catherine.
The child began showing symptoms on January 17 after earlier returning to Jamaica from travel to Texas in the United States.
The child was investigated at the Bustamante Hospital for Children and samples sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for testing on January 26, 2016. The Ministry received the positive Zika virus test result from CARPHA late yesterday.
The case is being investigated to determine the source of infection and the child’s parents and family have been contacted and briefed by a team from the Ministry of Health.
No other family member is ill at this time.
READ: Two Portmore communities identified with having heaviest concentration of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
As part of its investigations the Ministry of Health has undertaken the necessary community interventions in and around the area where the child lives to determine whether there are other cases and has heightened vector control activities.
The Minister of Health says it will provide a full update to the nation at a press briefing to be held on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Ministry is advising persons, particularly pregnant women, to take extra precaution to prevent being bitten by the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes which transmit the Zika virus.
READ: ZIKV FACTS - Common symptoms of Zika virus
The Health Ministry says there is adequate medication available in the public health system at this time to treat the symptoms of Zika virus infection in the event of additional cases being identified.
Jamaica confirms first case of Zika virus
Posting this since it's important if anybody got fam back on the island.
The JIS on youtube has been harping on it for months.
Apparently a lot people have been bad at getting rid of garbage properly. I know one of my uncles is....
all my peoples burn trash, they should be good.
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St.mary
Thought they didn't want people to do that cause of the drought? My dad helps to do it when he visit though.
My dad said the last time he was out there, Unc was throwing the shyt away at sea-side.
Act like the trash won't wash back up, breh.
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Thought they didn't want people to do that cause of the drought? My dad helps to do it when he visit though.
My dad said the last time he was out there, Unc was throwing the shyt away at sea-side.
Act like the trash won't was back up, breh.
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Mi de yah...
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May Pen
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St. Elizabeth
Westmoreland
Kingston 10
St. Elizabeth
Westmoreland
Ninja Mans son eh
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my apologies breh, apparently i didnt dig deep enough, ta'bumboclat
By: Donovan Vincent News reporter, Published on Sun Feb 21 2016
Lt.-Cmdr. Paul Smith had an inkling he was the first black person to attain that rank in the Royal Canadian Navy’s 106-year history.
The navy chose Smith, 48, to be a commander in January 2010, but it wasn’t until around July 2014 — when he was appointed his first ship, the coastal defence vessel HMCS Kingston — that talk began in earnest about his possibly making history.
The subject first came up during coffees Smith had with some of his naval colleagues, he says.
“Someone said, ‘I think you might be the first black c.o. (commanding officer) we’ve had on a ship,’” Smith says.
Being in uniform for 23 years, and sailing on Canadian ships for almost as long, Smith hadn’t worked under any black commanding officers.
An officer combed naval records for the definitive answer.
The Directorate of History and Heritage, a repository of the navy’s past, was the source used to make the confirmation, navy spokesperson Lt. Blake Patterson told the Star recently. It’s a detail few outside the navy are aware of.
Receiving that proof was “great news” for Smith, who says it’s an honour to represent both the black community and the Canadian navy.
Being the first is “a bit of responsibility and something I embrace,” Smith says in an interview from Miami. The ship he now commands, HMCS Summerside, set sail for the Caribbean to participate in Operation CARIBBE 2016, part of a multinational campaign against drug trafficking.
“I like to think that I can provide some measure of being a role model to not just black Canadians but any diversity group,” says Smith, who is married with two sons and lives with his family in Halifax.
Smith says most people aren’t surprised when they learn he’s a ship commander.
“The military has no roadblocks based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation. If you’re a qualified person, you are qualified,” he says. “I’ll leave it to others to say how they feel about (that), but I certainly haven’t had any issues.”
During the fall of 2014 Smith was part of history of another sort, when his ship joined the search party for the Franklin expedition ships Erebus and Terror. Though his vessel was further west, outside the search area, when the Erebus was found, Smith’s vessel helped transport equipment used in the hunt.
Born in Lionel Town, Jamaica, Smith came to Canada at age 7 with his parents and grew up in North York.
About to graduate high school and looking for a summer job at age 19, Smith learned about the naval reserve’s summer youth employment program, in which participants signed up for basic training at HMCS York in Toronto, a Canadian Forces naval reserve division.
He went on to the fall program and the next summer, after completing his general military training, left home for basic training in Halifax. That was 1986.
That year, he first crossed the ocean on a Canadian naval ship, and sailed Europe during fleet exercises, his first real taste of life at sea.
He returned to Canada to attend Dalhousie University and earn a degree in sociology.
In 1999, after achieving the rank of petty officer second class, Smith became a sub-lieutenant, and kept moving up through the ranks.
His love for the sea hasn’t ebbed.
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TRUE NORTH STRONG AND BUMBOCLAT FREE :WOW:Lt.-Cmdr. Paul Smith had an inkling he was the first black person to attain that rank in the Royal Canadian Navy’s 106-year history.
The navy chose Smith, 48, to be a commander in January 2010, but it wasn’t until around July 2014 — when he was appointed his first ship, the coastal defence vessel HMCS Kingston — that talk began in earnest about his possibly making history.
The subject first came up during coffees Smith had with some of his naval colleagues, he says.
“Someone said, ‘I think you might be the first black c.o. (commanding officer) we’ve had on a ship,’” Smith says.
Being in uniform for 23 years, and sailing on Canadian ships for almost as long, Smith hadn’t worked under any black commanding officers.
An officer combed naval records for the definitive answer.
The Directorate of History and Heritage, a repository of the navy’s past, was the source used to make the confirmation, navy spokesperson Lt. Blake Patterson told the Star recently. It’s a detail few outside the navy are aware of.
Receiving that proof was “great news” for Smith, who says it’s an honour to represent both the black community and the Canadian navy.
Being the first is “a bit of responsibility and something I embrace,” Smith says in an interview from Miami. The ship he now commands, HMCS Summerside, set sail for the Caribbean to participate in Operation CARIBBE 2016, part of a multinational campaign against drug trafficking.
“I like to think that I can provide some measure of being a role model to not just black Canadians but any diversity group,” says Smith, who is married with two sons and lives with his family in Halifax.
Smith says most people aren’t surprised when they learn he’s a ship commander.
“The military has no roadblocks based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation. If you’re a qualified person, you are qualified,” he says. “I’ll leave it to others to say how they feel about (that), but I certainly haven’t had any issues.”
During the fall of 2014 Smith was part of history of another sort, when his ship joined the search party for the Franklin expedition ships Erebus and Terror. Though his vessel was further west, outside the search area, when the Erebus was found, Smith’s vessel helped transport equipment used in the hunt.
Born in Lionel Town, Jamaica, Smith came to Canada at age 7 with his parents and grew up in North York.
About to graduate high school and looking for a summer job at age 19, Smith learned about the naval reserve’s summer youth employment program, in which participants signed up for basic training at HMCS York in Toronto, a Canadian Forces naval reserve division.
He went on to the fall program and the next summer, after completing his general military training, left home for basic training in Halifax. That was 1986.
That year, he first crossed the ocean on a Canadian naval ship, and sailed Europe during fleet exercises, his first real taste of life at sea.
He returned to Canada to attend Dalhousie University and earn a degree in sociology.
In 1999, after achieving the rank of petty officer second class, Smith became a sub-lieutenant, and kept moving up through the ranks.
His love for the sea hasn’t ebbed.
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