The emergency medical team deployed to Region Seven last Thursday to investigate claims of a malaria outbreak at Waramadong found a few imported cases but no epidemic.
According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release issued last Friday, the team said that after conducting mass smears in the community it found a few cases of the disease, which had been imported into the community but was not a public health threat.
“The team conducted 369 smears, 14 of which were positive, most of them from Jawalla, and one each from Imbaimadai, Isseneru, and Koko,” GINA said, adding that a 26-year-old woman also tested positive for the disease.
Smears were also done in the homes that the infected persons visited. Students who had spent their Christmas vacation at their respective villages in Region Seven also recently returned to the dormitory at Waramadong.
Director of Regional Health Services (RHS) Dr Irv Chan,
