Why is it up? Because most of our food are prepared by FT?
SINGAPORE is in the grip of a diarrhoea epidemic.
Doctors, who have seen many more cases than usual in the last two weeks, say it appears to be highly contagious, felling the members of entire families within days of each other.
Halfway into the week, there has been no let-up in the number of cases.
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