13 more chikungunya cases

[makapaaa]

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ANOTHER 13 cases of chikungunya have surfaced over the past week.
Six were imported cases, most likely from Johor. Another six were linked to existing clusters.
The last, a 55-year-old businessman living at St Martin's Drive, has not travelled recently.
National Environment Agency (NEA) officers have combed the area but have not found any mosquito-breeding sites.
The NEA hopes to prevent the disease from becoming endemic here, in the way dengue has.
But with over 120 locally transmitted cases out of 231 known cases this year, this may not be possible, especially since the disease is already endemic in neighbouring countries.
The vast majority of imported cases comes from nearby Johor.
As for local transmissions, cases have been found in 25 areas here.
Like dengue, chikungunya is spread by the Aedes mosquito. Symptoms too are similar and include fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, muscle ache, rash and joint pain.
A joint statement from the Health Ministry and the NEA appealed to the public to help eradicate mosquito breeding to keep the disease in check. SALMA KHALIK

 

[TeeKee]

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boh zeng hu man...

 

[Tiu-leh-see-fart]

Chiku is a foriegn disease.

our PAP govt is doing a great job integrating the new sickness to the locals so they can understand how Ft workers feel.

Having chiku here is not the end of the world, we should be be grateful becos our children can train the immune system.

Please dont blame the FTs, they are our lifeline, without them, we are finished.

you should thank the PAP for bringing in more new disease so the locals can become stronger. Of course, you need to kill some to learn more about the disease.

Accept it, singapore is a global village, there will be more diseases, and then we can set up more research Ctes to employ FT scientists to study them, so our next gen can learn more and create jobs

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ANOTHER 13 cases of chikungunya have surfaced over the past week.
Six were imported cases, most likely from Johor. Another six were linked to existing clusters.
The last, a 55-year-old businessman living at St Martin's Drive, has not travelled recently.
National Environment Agency (NEA) officers have combed the area but have not found any mosquito-breeding sites.
The NEA hopes to prevent the disease from becoming endemic here, in the way dengue has.
But with over 120 locally transmitted cases out of 231 known cases this year, this may not be possible, especially since the disease is already endemic in neighbouring countries.
The vast majority of imported cases comes from nearby Johor.
As for local transmissions, cases have been found in 25 areas here.
Like dengue, chikungunya is spread by the Aedes mosquito. Symptoms too are similar and include fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, muscle ache, rash and joint pain.
A joint statement from the Health Ministry and the NEA appealed to the public to help eradicate mosquito breeding to keep the disease in check. SALMA KHALIK

 

[eeoror88]

boh zeng hu man...

Dew lei ger see fart !! You ser-bu-ser pariah helicopter !!

 

[mockingbird]

Good news for pest control companies.

 

[chinkangkor]

When an outbreak occured, the healthcare system would break down.

 

[myfoot123]

When an outbreak occured, the healthcare system would break down.

Another PAP policies oversight, increase in population posed a conducive ground for all stinging insects to pass viruses. Hospital staffs now overstretched with works, police officers overstretched trying to control crime, road too small for cars, emigration on the rise, schools teacher overstretched resulting in school fees increase, convervancy fees increased because our FT neighbours anyhow dumped rubbish, murders on the rise, rape on the rise, stolen cars on the rise, ministers salaries on the rise, peasants standard of living gone down, peasant salaries gone done....

OPEN YOUR EYES WIDE AND VOTE THEM OUT IN THE NEXT ELECTION NOT TOO FAR IN THE FUTURE

 

[chinkangkor]

How about the worsening littering problem which will directly contribute to more breeding grounds for Aedes mosquitoes?

 

[Nomad]

what is HOT,they will just focus on it and forget about those other things.
so presently this is causing a lot of worrying parents and the F1 is the most important thing at this moment.
so all manpower is being channel to the race.

 

[jw5]

Another PAP policies oversight, increase in population posed a conducive ground for all stinging insects to pass viruses. Hospital staffs now overstretched with works, police officers overstretched trying to control crime, road too small for cars, emigration on the rise, schools teacher overstretched resulting in school fees increase, convervancy fees increased because our FT neighbours anyhow dumped rubbish, murders on the rise, rape on the rise, stolen cars on the rise, ministers salaries on the rise, peasants standard of living gone down, peasant salaries gone done....

OPEN YOUR EYES WIDE AND VOTE THEM OUT IN THE NEXT ELECTION NOT TOO FAR IN THE FUTURE

I'm waiting for the minister to comment that this is due to the complacency of Singaporeans, just like he did when there were outbreaks of dengue some time back.