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COVID-19 and dengue fever: similarities and differences

April 6, 2021 Unlike other outbreaks of dengue fever in the past, the current increase in cases, not only in Barbados and the Caribbean but also in India, Singapore, and other tropical countries, has come at a time when the world is battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Some people have also had both illnesses at the same time. One such patient told Barbados TODAY about her experience in January this year. “I was on sick leave with dengue from January 2 this year when I heard that someone who had tested positive for COVID-19 had come into my workplace shortly before that. I got tested for COVID-19 and that test came back positive.

Eyes on a third wave - Barbados Today

Eyes on a third wave Article by March 17, 2021 As policymakers and stakeholders negotiate the inevitable resumption of tourism, concern is growing within the local medical fraternity about a possible third wave of COVID-19 currently taking root in parts of Europe. Describing recent developments as “very strange and scary”, president of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) Dr. Lynda Williams has warned that the new waves comprising more infectious strains could eventually make their way to our shores through the United Kingdom and/or the United States of America. Recent reports out of the European Union have noted surges in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, that are being blamed on numerous new variants of the infectious viral illness.

Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) — another element of COVID-19

March 15, 2021 Over the past month, as we saw the number of COVID-19 casualties increase in Barbados, one of the saddest cases involved that of a nine-year-old girl who succumbed to the pandemic. Her case was unique in that it was attributed to a new aspect of COVID-19 which has surfaced over the past year, namely Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C. President of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP), Dr Lynda Williams, stated that the condition was first detected a year ago and was similar to another phenomenon called Kawasaki’s disease. “In April 2020, doctors in the United Kingdom first started seeing symptoms of a condition called Kawasaki’s disease in some children that had either tested positive for COVID-19 three or four weeks previously or were currently dealing with it.

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