Singapore: 2013 Dengue cases

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Dengue cases up in January
Posted: 17 January 2013 2104 hrs

SINGAPORE: The number of dengue cases has gone up. The National Environment Agency (NEA) said there were a total of 208 dengue cases last week.

135 and 112 cases were reported in the preceding two weeks.

NEA said this is unusual for January, a month that does not fall under the typical April to October peak transmission period.

NEA said the total number of cases notified in 2013 till 12 Jan is 342. It is a two-a-half-fold increase over the same period in 2012...

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Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking...engue-20130216

Efforts stepped up in Hougang against dengue

Published on Feb 16, 2013
7:18 PM
By Poon Chian Hui

With more than 100 cases of dengue fever, Hougang is the new hotspot for the mosquito-borne disease...

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Spike in dengue cases in first months of 2013
Posted: 16 February 2013 1917 hrs

SINGAPORE: Dengue cases have spiked in the first couple of months this year.

In the first week of January, there were 100 cases. This number climbed to more than 300 cases last week.

Within Punggol South, there have been more than 100 cases reported in seven clusters...

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From the Government Dengue website - http://www.dengue.gov.sg/

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Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp...37971&sec=asia

Thursday February 21, 2013
Fall in dengue cases after seven-week rise

SINGAPORE recorded a fall in dengue cases last week, after seven straight weeks in which the number of infections increased.

The 253 people diagnosed with the viral infection for the week ending Saturday is a significant drop compared to the 322 people infected in the previous week.

However, the number is still well above the epidemic threshold of 165 cases a week. Since Sunday, another 95 people have been infected...

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Spike in dengue cases in Jan, Feb 2013
By Khoo Fany Xuan, Kimberly Spykerman | Posted: 01 March 2013 2036 hrs

SINGAPORE: Dengue cases have spiked in the first two months of this year.

It is a cause for concern as the surge comes outside the traditional peak season.

The situation is also aggravated by more people contracting the less common dengue strains - in particular virus types 1 and 3...

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Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking...rains-20130327

Dengue fever epidemic set to worsen with 3 active strains
Trend points to outbreak worse than 2005, when 25 people died

Published on Mar 27, 2013
7:51 AM
By Salma Khalik Senior Health Correspondent

SINGAPORE'S dengue fever epidemic has entered its 12th week and is looking serious.

There are three strains of the virus that are almost equally active, and this is a rare occurrence...

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Fewer people with dengue fever hospitalised
By Melissa Pang
The Straits Times
Monday, Apr 01, 2013

SINGAPORE - So much is known about dengue fever now that just four in 10 patients were hospitalised last year, compared with six in 10 during the last epidemic in 2007.

This may have come from doctors gaining a better understanding and so referring fewer patients to hospitals, as well as more stringent admission criteria at hospitals.

Ministry of Health figures show in 2007, 55.7 per cent of dengue patients were admitted to the public hospitals, compared with 39.9 per cent last year. And in the first 11 weeks of this year, about a quarter of dengue cases have been admitted to public hospitals compared with 38.5 per cent in the same period last year...

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Dengue cases rise, eastern S'pore worst hit
By Salma Khalik
The Straits Times
Sunday, Mar 31, 2013

SINGAPORE - As the number of dengue cases continued to rise, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said it was monitoring the epidemic closely and working with hospitals to manage the bed situation.

Between Sunday and 3pm on Thursday, the number of cases rose by 227. Almost all the active clusters are currently in the eastern part of the country.

The biggest cluster in Tampines Streets 12, 21 and 22 now have 94 people down with the mosquito-borne disease. Another 70 people in other parts of Tampines have also been recently infected...

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Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking...demic-20130407

Dengue in Singapore going to be a 'big-time epidemic'
Infection numbers are high and will soar in hot season if virus transmission continues

Published on Apr 07, 2013
6:00 AM
By Salma Khalik Senior Health Correspondent

Singapore is heading for its worst dengue fever epidemic, and the warning comes from Associate Professor Leo Yee Sin, one of the foremost dengue experts here.

Infection numbers for the week ended yesterday will not be out till tomorrow, but they will be a new high for this year as 327 people had already fallen ill by 3pm on Friday.

The previous full-week high was 322 in February...

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Dengue cases rise, top 4 active clusters spotted
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SINGAPORE : The number of reported dengue cases for the week of March 31 to April 5 was 327.

In the week of March 24 to 30, there were 315 cases.

For the first 13 weeks of 2013, there has been a total of 3,437 cases of which 108 cases were in the Tampines Street 12 area that includes Tampines Street 21 and 22...

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Dengue cases in Singapore hit record high over past week

Source: XINHUA | 2013-4-15 | ONLINE EDITION

SINGAPORE, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Singapore reported a record 492 dengue cases over the past week, according to statistics released on Monday by the National Environment Agnecy...

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SINGAPORE
Number of dengue cases so far surpasses 2012 data

SINGAPORE: It's just four and a-half month into the year and the number of dengue cases to date has already surpassed the total number of cases in the whole of last year.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) said a total of 4,756 dengue cases have been reported in Singapore between 1 January and 19 April 2013.

This is higher than the 4,632 cases in 2012.
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/number-of-dengue-cases/644964.html

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Dengue cases continue to rise

POSTED: 23 Apr 2013 4:44 PM

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SINGAPORE: The number of reported cases of dengue fever continues to climb.

According to the latest figures on the National Environment Agency's website, there were 515 cases for the week of 14 to 20 April.

In the previous week ? 7 to 13 April ? there were 493 cases.

Four hundred and six cases were reported in the week before that ? 31 March to 6 April.

As of the last two days ? 21 and 22 April ? 75 cases were reported.

For the first 16 weeks of this year, there have been 4,850 reported cases of dengue fever.
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/dengue-cases-continue-to-rise/648740.html

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ASIA NEWS
April 26, 2013, 1:17 p.m. ET

Dengue Fever on the Rise in Singapore
By CHUN HAN WONG

SINGAPORE?A diminutive pest is threatening Singapore with an outsized bite, bringing this city-state to the cusp of its worst-ever tropical disease outbreak...

...So far this year, Singapore's health ministry has recorded more dengue cases than the 4,632 reported in the whole of 2012. Though there have been no deaths, weekly counts rose to 510 cases in the week that ended April 20, a new peak for 2013 and the highest since Singapore's worst dengue outbreak in 2005.

Singapore is entering its peak dengue season, from May to October, in which warmer temperatures help the dengue virus multiply faster...