Singapore: 6 drug resistant TB cases in AMK

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Source: http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-new...t-tb-cases-amk

6 drug resistant TB cases in AMK
Jun 16, 2016 6:00am
By JUDITH TAN

Six residents of Block 203, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3have contracted multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB).

While three of them, including Patient Zero, live in the same flat, the other three are from different units.

Announcing this at a press conference last evening, Associate Professor Benjamin Ong, director of medical services at the Ministry of Health (MOH), said this makes it "highly unusual to find cases of the same strain of the MDR TB who do not share common activities with one another"...

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Source: http://health.asiaone.com/health/hea...-older-cluster


Health News, Singapore
Linette Lai
Saturday, Jun 18, 2016
First case in TB outbreak also part of older cluster

The first person found to have drug-resistant tuberculosis in the recently discovered Ang Mo Kio outbreak was also the first to be diagnosed in an older TB cluster, the Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed yesterday.

The man was the index case in that drug-resistant TB outbreak reported in 2013, which was traced to three cybercafes in Parklane shopping mall. In a statement yesterday, an MOH spokesman said the man had been coughing for four months before he was diagnosed in 2012...