Singapore heading for 'big time' dengue epidemic

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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.

Prof Leo told The Sunday Times: "We really have to anticipate that we will have a big-time dengue epidemic this year. It is unusual for dengue numbers to be so high so early in the year. About 300 people have been infected each week since the epidemic started in January. Unless transmission of the virus is halted, the number of infections could more than double by the middle of the year."