The whole-of-society strategy for Zika control may have helped reduce the number of dengue cases in Singapore since the beginning of this year. But this is no reason for us to let up in our continuing community efforts battling dengue and its primary vector, the Aedes mosquito, say Dr Vincent Pang, Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (NUS) and Associate Professor Lim Poh Lian, Senior Consultant in Department of Infectious Diseases in Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, and Head, Travellers’ Health & Vaccination Clinic, Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
Media Coverage:
- Zika control efforts pack a punch in fight against dengue, TODAY, 11 August 2017