By Obed Nyangena and Tabitha Odera
For long, mosquitoes have caused man restiveness, throbbing pain and death. Across the country, malaria causing anopheles mosquitoes are responsible for about 4,000 annual deaths and around 6.7 million clinical cases.
Other than the long-feared noxious anopheles’ mosquitoes, recent research reveals aedes mosquitoes are equally deadly and responsible for the spread of deleterious Chikungunya virus that caused panic in Mandera circa 2016. The aedes spread arboviruses that are transmitted from one person to another by a bite of an infected aedes mosquito.
Common symptoms of Chikungunya include joints and muscle pain, nausea, fatigue, rashes and fever. This type of virus has viraemia, lacks vaccine and takes between a day to 12 days for symptoms to fully emerge. Read more…
