BusinessWeek, 7 May 2013Singapore’s dengue cases are set to surge to a record this year, prompting the government to break into homes that could be breeding grounds for mosquitoes that transmit the disease.
The number of cases could reach 23,000 in the city-state this year, based on the trend of a fivefold increase from 2012’s cases, Leo Yee Sin, director of the communicable disease center at Singapore’s Tan Tock Seng Hospital, said yesterday. That will exceed the record 14,000 in 2005, according to government data.
To curb the spread of the virus, Singapore’s National Environment Agency has shortened the time it will wait before breaking into houses suspected of housing so-called Aedes mosquitoes, which carry the disease, to one week from two, the Straits Times reported on April 29. Full story
