Tourism booking agents and operators are being urged to
highlight a heightened risk of malaria to clients travelling to Jamaica.
The UK-based National Travel Health Network and Centre has issued an update about malaria in Jamaica on its website.
It said Jamaica's Ministry of Health has heightened malaria surveillance and introduced control measures after reports of a case of plasmodium falciparum malaria in Kingston, the second case to be reported in this area in the last few weeks.
It said an outbreak, which was first reported in Kingston in December 2006 and involved 370 cases, was thought to have been subsiding.
The website states that although malaria prevention tablets are not recommended, travellers to Jamaica, in particular those to Kingston, should be aware of the possible risk.
It warns that they protect themselves against mosquitoes.
The UK-based National Travel Health Network and Centre has issued an update about malaria in Jamaica on its website.
It said Jamaica's Ministry of Health has heightened malaria surveillance and introduced control measures after reports of a case of plasmodium falciparum malaria in Kingston, the second case to be reported in this area in the last few weeks.
It said an outbreak, which was first reported in Kingston in December 2006 and involved 370 cases, was thought to have been subsiding.
The website states that although malaria prevention tablets are not recommended, travellers to Jamaica, in particular those to Kingston, should be aware of the possible risk.
It warns that they protect themselves against mosquitoes.
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