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Health officials in the county are working round the clock to contain the spread of Dengue virus.
Health CEC Ann Gathoni pronounced the news yesterday indicating several people tested positive for the debilitating viral fever transmitted by female mosquito bites.
The mosquitoes mainly of the species, Aedes aegypti, tends to bite during the day and are associated with hot and humid climate weather and breed fast during rainy seasons.
According to Dr Gathoni, the samples tested from 15 patients who were taken ill with symptoms showed that five of them had the deadly fever.
"The outbreak is at the coastline where residents need to be extra careful of mosquito breeding areas," she said.
She asked the locals to clear bushes around their homes, drain stagnant waters, use insecticide and sleep under treated mosquito nets.
This comes when continuous rain are pounding the Coastal towns some of which are marooned in floods.
However, Dr Gathoni said that there was no need for alarm as the county medical team was alert.
"We are working on modalities that will make sure that mosquito breeding dens are sprayed," she said.
There was an outbreak of Chikungunya virus in the county at Basuba ward last year.
The viral disease also transmitted by mosquito bites affected an entire village of about 100 people.
Their suffering was aggravated after Alshabaab militants bombed a clinic that served the village making them travel 100 kilometres away in Kiunga ward for treatment.
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