Imported Dengue case

[kalakoa]

DOH is too understaffed to answer the phone.

I seem to recall additional funding granted so that DOH could hire more workers... wonder what happened there.

[Kenney]

The lady at CD told me DOH has already hired 10 more staff. Maybe it's time for them to have their first day of work.
She was very firm that this is DOH's kuliana. I get the impression CD is hoping they don't have to carry the burden for DOH again .
The hold up seems to be that our DOH doubts that CDC would directly contact a patient, but if she's in the hospital I see no reason that the CDC would not contact the hospital with results and then Dr. Inform patient and husband.
There definitely is something going on here or HI. DOH would not have had a meeting with our CD yesterday. (Where there's smoke, there's fire)

[eigoya]

Where are we putting our resources? To me DOH=already bitten while vector control =prevention. A £ of prevention is worth £100 of cure. Maui managed to eliminate 2000 derelict cars and many tons of trash in their few months of outbreak....

[kalakoa]

Apparently there are other reasons to control mosquitos. Maybe someone can commission a study.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gmo-...cc9a71d422

[ericlp]

hahaha no one cares about abandoned cars around here. I just read a sign at the dump that they are no longer accepting tires. So.. dunno, tires are a big mosquito magnet.

Welcome to Puna. Dragging feet once again.

[PaulW]

Save Hawaii's birds? Sure! Use GM mosquitoes? Uh-uh, no way, too scary, don't understand it.

[kalakoa]

Save Hawaii's tourism? Sure! Just don't talk about the dengue outbreaks, problem solved!

[grumpyscosmos]

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Originally posted by Kenney

Afterthought Tom. Supplying a person with mosquito repellent after they were already infected is not pointless. True, it wouldn't help the person infected per se, but it would prevent the infected person from getting bit by another mosquito which could then bite another person, infecting them. That is why DOH/CD recommend isolating the infected person.
In the case of grumpyscosmos, the repellent was provided to prevent him/ her from getting a second infection from a different strain.
Clear as mud?

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I can't speak for the county the state or the DOH....I just thought folks should know that there was another genus of dengue reported and confirmed in Hpp ...I was thankful they informed me...I live on the Maku'u side of park although I don't.seee the relevance ..Be safe...

[Kenney]

I find it profoundly disturbing that we must rely on the jungle drum for current information regarding both the presence of another strain in HPP and the case of dual infection In Kona. I should say alleged infections since Hi. DOH/CD/CDC have not seen fit to report or verify either case.
I understand that the powers that be do not want to pass on inaccurate info, or create a panic, but they could at least say "we have unconfirmed reports of ..." , just to give us a heads up. Using HIPPA as an excuse is bs. Specific patient information is illegal, general information is not.
I wouldn't give my address to the masses either grumpyscosmos. You and Bryan have offered your personal family info to give this community a heads up. That is more than enough.
Again, I wish you and Bryan's wife good health and thank you all (Larry too) for your posts. I am using repellant again, and waiting for an official notification.
I just hope we don't have to wait 4-5 months , til many people are ill before they admit that we have a problem here.

[Guest]

On a previous thread I tried to explain my friends awful experience with the dengue, he lived on 12th and Makuu. He and his family moved during the last dengue outbreak to the mainland and are currently doing well. His son, grandma, two close neighbors and himself all got the dengue within about a 1\4 mile radius. The property he lived on and a couple lots next to his are completely loaded with mosquitoes and is a perfect breeding ground. The old cars, several tires, hundreds of rusty paint cans, bottles, 5 gallon buckets, and the foliage growing over them makes for a perfect deadly mosquito breeding ground,jmo.
The property he lived on was sprayed three times but the trouble was the mosquitoes just made their way back in from those neighboring troubling lots. The DOH or county really should go back down around my friends property and give it some extra attention. I personally would drive down to meet them and show them these troubled mosquito breeding areas. Jmo