Government of Jamaica
A body temperature of ≥38°C/ 100.4°F (or recent history of fever) in a previously healthy person with or without headache and vomiting. The person must also have meningeal irritation, convulsions, altered consciousness, altered sensory manifestations or paralysis (except AFP).
Any person that is a case of suspected meningitis, encephalitis or meningo-encephalitis should be counted as fever and neurological symptoms.
Source: National Surveillance Manual
Reported every week by the hospital sentinel sites only.
The National Surveillance Unit publishes the latest figures every week.