SINGAPORE, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 5,500 dengue cases have been reported in Singapore so far this year, exceeding the total number of cases for the whole of last year, said Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu on Sunday. "This is a worrying trend as we are only ...
SingaporeBackground: Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a leading cause of hospitalization of children in Southeast Asia and regarded mainly as a problem of childhood. In Singapore, however, both dengue fever (DF) and DHF now occur most frequently in those aged 16鈥 25 years and case fatality...
People of all classes should be made alert and awareness should be created among them so that they may keep their home and homesite neat and clean. But in case of a seriously dengue attacked patient, he should immediately be taken to a hospital or health clinic/complex for proper treatment....
Despite its well-established integrated nationwide Aedes mosquito control programme which incorporates source reduction, public health education and law enforcement, Singapore has not been spared from the regional resurgence of dengue. The disease incidence has been increasing from 9.3 per 100,000 in 1988...
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26, 27, 28, 29 In Singapore alone, the economic burden of dengue is around $1 billion USD2010, half of which is spent solely on vector-control efforts.30 Worldwide, estimates are as high as $39 billion USD2010 per year on the costs of medical care, surveillance, vector control, and ...
Fig. 20.1C) (Table 20.1) [18,19]. For example, in a case study performed with 320 patients with dengue fever in Indiaduring a recent outbreak, 3.75% of individuals develop AF [18181819]. It is possible that AF lasting beyond the acute phase of the infection may be due to subsequent ...
in other Asian countries. While India's central allocation on all vector-borne diseases as part of 12th five-year plan was 0.36 USD per capita, Mexico, Malaysia , Brazil and Singapore spent 0.76, 3, 5 and 10 USDs per capita for Dengue surveillance and vector control in the same period. ...