Does it not coincide with rampant FTrashisation of the eateries and some NEA scholar directors going on $50k French cooking classes?
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</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Diarrhoea cases up 50% <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Salma Khalik, Health Correspondent
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The country's 18 polyclinics treated 2,990 patients for acute diarrhoea last week - almost 50 per cent more than the weekly average of 2,072 cases. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->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.
The country's 18 polyclinics treated 2,990 patients for acute diarrhoea last week - almost 50 per cent more than the weekly average of 2,072 cases.
It is considered an epidemic when the polyclinics see more than 2,668 cases a week.
The last time such an outbreak happened was two years ago. Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR>Sep 10, 2009
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Diarrhoea cases up 50% <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Salma Khalik, Health Correspondent
</TD></TR><!-- show image if available --><TR vAlign=bottom><TD width=330>
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The country's 18 polyclinics treated 2,990 patients for acute diarrhoea last week - almost 50 per cent more than the weekly average of 2,072 cases. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->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.
The country's 18 polyclinics treated 2,990 patients for acute diarrhoea last week - almost 50 per cent more than the weekly average of 2,072 cases.
It is considered an epidemic when the polyclinics see more than 2,668 cases a week.
The last time such an outbreak happened was two years ago. Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
