Health Alerts

Dengue fever cases are about one-fifth of last year’s figures as of December – 2,627 compared with 12,500 for 2016. Currently there are three active clusters – one producing most cases is situated around several housing blocks on Bedok Reservoir Road. Read more.

Phase 1 field studies trials on the use of Wolbachia bacteria on the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, have shown promise but more are planned to gauge the full effect on ‘Singapore’s high-density and high-rise urban landscape’. Read more.