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Feb 03, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
I totally endorse the recent letter about the possibility of the Zika disease spreading to Guyana, moreso when I heard on a recent UK news report that the Zika mosquito may be a relative of the one which causes dengue fever.
I have been wondering ever since, and concerned, about what steps the Guyana Government may be taking to protect itself, in view of Guyana’s proximity to Venezuela. I agree that “Government ie, the Ministry of Health, should take steps and measures as a national public health emergency of the threat of the virus, surfacing here”, and protect its people as much as it can.
In addition to her considerable problems, poor Guyana has a restricted medical service, and coping with shrunken-headed babies, with perhaps other ailments, (perhaps a situation similar to the ‘thalidomide children’ of the early-1960s), might be a road too far for our nation. I have also wondered about the effect an outbreak of Zika-related diseases would have on America’s oil-drilling intended operations in the region, with attendant hefty medical bills for their nationals, should they become ill from Zika mosquito bites! “Man proposes, God disposes”. Our neighbours now have “other fish to fry”. Strange are the ways of Fate. In the meantime, let us protect ourselves.
Geralda Dennison.
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