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Pink Eye Outbreak May Be Of Historic Proportions
posted (October 13, 2017)
The Ministry of health also had a booth at the event. They had a number of key figures on display - including the latest numbers on the pink eye outbreak. It's so bad - that if you don't have it, we'll bet a member of your family does.

In terms of numbers, it's the biggest outbreak in decades; eleven thousand people have shown up at clinics countrywide with it.

Today we got the latest figures:...

Jesse Chun, Sr. Biostatistician, MOH
"What you see on display here is result of some work that we've been doing especially with the electronic data that we now have via the Belize Health Information System, I think the volume of data that we now have is such that we can really present especially data on vital statistics, births and deaths and as you can see also we have some charts there with the current state of pink eye outbreak that's currently ongoing."

Courtney Weatherburne, reporter
"Tell us about that? Where are we right now in terms of the recent statistics?"

Jesse Chun, Sr. Biostatistician, MOH
"I'd say that we are currently in the middle of the outbreak. As you all may have heard it came from up north and it eventually spread to Belize District and that's where we are seeing the majority of the cases which is expected, because it's the population center, but it's gotten all the way down to Toledo, so we've been seeing some cases in Toledo and we expect the numbers to keep coming in, because as I said we are in the middle of the outbreak. So just to highlight the extreme outbreak is we actually saw over 3,000 cases for last week alone which matches the number of cases that we've had for the whole year last year 2016."

To go over it last week's figures alone match last year's total.

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