CaribWorldNews, PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Mon. July 26, 2010: Dengue fever has claimed the lives of three people in the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago and left another 600 dead.
Chief Medical Officer, Dr Anton Cumberbatch, said over the weekend that the country is also testing to see if the disease was responsible for two other deaths.
But he urged nationals not to panic, insisting that the Health Ministry had already `ramped up` the efforts to eradicate the aedes aegypti mosquito which spreads the deadly dengue virus.
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My son have asthma, eczema, environement allergies, also to insects, how will dengue fever affect him when he visits trinidad? he is 5 yrs old??