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VIDEO: Visitors, Residents React To Kailua-Kona Dengue Risk
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by Big Island Video News
on Jan 29, 2016 at 10:40 am

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STORY SUMMARY

Kona parks will close for mosquito spraying today, as the total number of confirmed cases of dengue fever counted since September reached 241.




Video by Lynn Beittel of Visionary Video, recorded January 28, 2016.

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii – Kailua-Kona joined the Captain Cook area of South Kona this week as a region of high risk for catching dengue fever from an infected mosquito. Its a disturbing development for residents like Karen Anderson, who began the Hawaii Dengue Fever Awareness group on Facebook. Anderson points out that Kailua-Kona is more densely populated than rural South Kona, where the sickness was first detected in October. She says that could make it easier for the disease to jump between man and mosquito. But tourists don’t seem to be as concerned, as news videographer Lynn Beittel of Visionary Video learned through a few interviews on Thursday.

As of January 28, the total number of confirmed cases of dengue fever acquired on Hawaii Island since September was 241. Of the confirmed cases, 217 are Hawaii Island residents and 24 are visitors, state officials say.

Today (Jan. 29), the Hawaii County Department of Parks and Recreation will temporarily close four Kona Parks to treat those facilities for mosquitoes. They are Kailua Playground, Kipapa Park, Harold H. Higashihara Park, and Arthur C. Greenwell Park, including Sgt. Rodney J. Yano Memorial Hall. The county says signs will be posted at each park informing the public of the closures, spraying activity, and when the parks are reopened.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: dengue fever, Kailua Village, Karen Anderson

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