SINGAPORE - There were more than 13,600 cases of dengue locally in 2024, an increase of over 36 per cent from the year before. According to the latest statistics on the National Environment Agency’s ...

He revealed that the Breteau Index, which measures dengue mosquito density, currently ranges between 15 and 20, an indication of a potential epidemic situation. According to the World Health ...

or in other words allowed mosquitoes — which are vectors for a whole range of diseases including dengue, malaria, chikungunya and Zika — to thrive in new neighborhoods.

Female mosquitoes are targeted because only they bite and drink blood, thereby spreading diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. Scientist Sam Beach from Australia's Macquarie University said ...

An elderly Townsville man has been hospitalised with dengue fever, marking the region's first breakthrough case of the mosquito-borne virus in five years. There have been just four cases of ...

founder and billionaire Bill Gates and his wife. The Aedes albopictus mosquito carries the virus that causes dengue fever, which can prove fatal. The mosquito is said to thrive in areas where the ...

This innovative technique could efficiently curb diseases like malaria and dengue without harming beneficial species, though further testing on mosquitoes is necessary. A novel and innovative ...

Dengue cases in Singapore have been on the rise since the 1990s, with the largest recorded outbreaks occurring in 2020 and 2022, said the National Environment Agency in response to queries from ...

“What we think is happening here is not 100 per cent of all our local dengue mosquitoes are covered with this bacteria. “If we get a tourist come in with dengue virus in their blood, it could ...