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And that’s one good thing to report particularly when tourism numbers are already down. It will most directly affect Caye Caulker – which may be recorded in lore as a fishing village but is really a tourism village. And with the word now going out that it’s being suspected for an h1ni1 outbreak – that can’t be good for that village’s already struggling tourism industry. Pitts said health comes first.

Dr. Michael Pitts,
“What we are saying to them is we have an outbreak of a flu like illness on that island that you want to go to. It is the same way we say when you had it in Cancun they said listen, you have to be aware; you will make a choice but the advice for people is that if you have an area with don’t go for the period that we will tell you that you have the outbreak. It is the same way we say don’t go to school for the period and then Caye Caulker if we have an outbreak then maybe for the next three or four days you redirect your attention, go to another place. It will have the impact but we have to concentrate on the health concert.

It is a little more difficult with some of the clubs and discos but even there we are saying to adults listen, if you have flu like symptoms don’t go and congregate. Business people who are running discos and clubs and so on, if you see people in your place of business with cough symptoms, ask them to excuse themselves.”