Health authorities expect to confirm by Friday, whether a Jamaican who has exhibited signs of the Chikungunya Virus, following a recent trip overseas, does indeed have the disease.
If confirmed it would represent the first imported case of Chik-V in Jamaica.
Over 5-thousand cases of Chik-V have been confirmed in 28 Caribbean countries.
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kevin Harvey, says the individual recently visited another Caribbean island and began feeling ill after returning to Jamaica.
Dr. Harvey says to date, health officials have no evidence of local transmission of the virus.
Chik-V is spread from person to person by a bite from the Aedes Aegypti mosquito carrying the virus.
Dr. Harvey says the Ministry is undertaking a vector control programme to eradicate mosquito breeding sites.
