Dengue New High Hit, S’porean Have to Stay Alert
With everyone focusing on the current pandemic cases and also the recent incoming General Election 2020. There is another threat that is looming steadily on the horizon which is the reappearance of the dengue in a sizeable scale which is so far reported to be a new high hit case with about 200 new cases a day for 2 consecutive weekly.
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So far, with 12,500 people have been infected by this mosquito-borne disease and Singaporean need to know how to avoid this new dengue infection which can help avoid the suffering, possibly fatal associated with a dengue outbreak.
Meanwhile, The National Environment Agency (NEA) is looking at scaling up its Wolbachia program to suppress the number of Aedes mosquitoes by releasing sterile male mosquitoes in dengue hot spots. Eggs from female mosquitoes, with which they mate, will not hatch.