Jamaica confirms a case of 'imported' malaria, urges calm

Jamaica's Ministry of Health is urging calm, after confirming a report carried by RJR News on Friday of a case of  malaria in the central Jamaica parish of Clarendon.
    
Dr. Kevin Harvey, Chief Medical Officer, told RJR News that the Southern Regional Health Authority was monitoring the case, which involves a Jamaican woman who visited a South American country last year.
    
"She has been diagnosed and is receiving the appropriate treatment and is responding well,", Dr. Harvey said.

He added that "at this time there is no local transmission of malaria in Jamaica," but noted that there are usually several cases of "imported malaria" each year.