By WINNIE ATIENOMore by this AuthorChikungunya and dengue fever, two painful and debilitating mosquito-borne diseases that broke out in Mombasa in December have been contained. Early this week, Governor Hassan Joho had been hospitalised in a Mombasa hospital suspected to have contracted chikungunya. Officials led by health executive Hazel Koitaba and senior doctors in the county said the infectious diseases are no longer an epidemic. Issuing a status report on the diseases of Friday, Ms Koitaba said disease surveillance unit report showed that the diseases and spread have been contained. In 2004 the disease broke out in Mombasa only to reoccur in mid-December last year.

Source: Daily Nation February 10, 2018 09:22 UTC