So, what can you do to keep Dengue out of your home?  The Chief of Operations for the Vector Control Unit says first you have to know the symptoms if it does come to your home - and take steps to keep it out:

Kim Bautista - Chief of Operations, Vector Control Unit
"The first thing is that identifying the symptoms. Fevers, back ache, pain in the joints, rash, that persistent fever and in some cases, you might have bleeding of the gums, vaginally in cases of females. Symptoms, you ask person if you have those, go to your nearest health facility; what that does is that it triggers the alert to notify us that there is a case and we need to investigate it, we need to carry out interventions, that's the first thing. So from the unset of fever, chills and body ache, seek your nearest health facility. The second message has to do with you as a household, taking the initiative that at least once a week, you take a little walk around your yard and identify whether it's containers that are breeding mosquitos, it could be a bottle cap, it could be egg shells, coconut shells, uncovered drums, tired that we will never use again that we keep in the yard, all of these things we need to get rid of them in the yard. So we advise residence to take a little walk around the yard once a week, anything that you don't need, discard it. Anything that can be stored in a dry area, you put it in there because I think that's what we're seeing that's driving the situation. Many of these areas, including villages we're seeing cases, so I think it's a shared responsibility that the community has as well. Belize to sum it up, I would say the situation with dengue is a socio economic problem, persons that live in areas with poor drainage, poor infrastructure in terms of housing, all of these things have an impact in terms of the transmission being sustained throughout the rainy season, so you have a large population that has been exposed in previous outbreaks and now with an increase in serotypes circulating, you anticipate that you will end up with more cases within any given year."