Public health leader Associate Professor Ng Lee-Ching explains how Singapore’s Project Wolbachia is helping stem rising dengue cases by using the very same species responsible.
Singapore News - The number of dengue cases in Singapore in 2022 looks set to be the second highest on record, based on figures on the National Environment Agency (NEA) website. As at 3pm on Dec 30, 32,097 dengue cases had been reported – amounting to 91 per cent of the record high of. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Health News - Some residents have been alarmed by large swarms of mosquitoes at Project Wolbachia sites, with others reportedly. Read more at www.tnp.sg
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Singapore will accelerate the production of its lab-grown male mosquitoes that are released into the community to suppress the mosquito population amid an alarming dengue outbreak in the tropical city-state. Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu on Wednesday said some five million male Aedes mosquitoes would be manufactured each week, up from two million previously. These specially-bred mosquitoes.