HILO — Chairman Dru Kanuha has called a special meeting of the County Council for 9 a.m. March 2 to receive an update from local and state officials on efforts to control the dengue fever outbreak on the Big Island.
HILO — Chairman Dru Kanuha has called a special meeting of the County Council for 9 a.m. March 2 to receive an update from local and state officials on efforts to control the dengue fever outbreak on the Big Island.
The meeting, which will be held in Hilo, will be the second special dengue meeting the council has called. The first was a three-hour session Dec. 2, when council members were briefed by Dr. Ginny Pressler, diector of the state Department of Health, physicians Sen. Josh Green and Rep. Richard Creagan, county Civil Defense Administrator Darryl Oliveira and Aaron Ueno, Big Island district health officer for the DOH.
The meeting will be video-streamed to the West Hawaii Civic Center, Waimea council office, Kamehameha Park conference room, Naalehu state office building and the Pahoa neighborhood facility. Meetings are also web-streamed at the County Council website https://www.hawaiicounty.gov/lb-council-home/ .
“We’re mainly seeking an update on what’s been going on for the last few months,” Kanuha, who represents Kona, said Tuesday. “It’s to help the community understand what’s happening, the progress that’s being made.”
No new dengue fever cases were reported Tuesday by the Health Department. Only one of the confirmed cases to date is potentially infectious to mosquitoes. All others are no longer infectious. There are 258 other cases no longer infectious, the Health Department reported.
Oliveira said he will be at the meeting to update the council members on recent multi-agency community outreach projects in Kailua-Kona, similar to those done in Milolii and Waipio Valley.