Dengue Outbreak in Year 2015

It is now year 2015, 10 years after the last Dengue outbreak in Singapore in 2005. There is once again a sudden outbreak of dengue fever in Singapore. Countries in the South East Asian region including Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand have also reported sharp increases in the number of dengue cases.

Many people are falling ill and the hospitals are beginning to be filled up to the capacity with patients inflicted with dengue.

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Questions:
Why is there a sudden resurgence or outbreak of Dengue fever, 10 years after 2005?

What could have caused the spread of Dengue fever to countries as far as Thailand?

What are the immediate emergency measures that can be taken to stop the spread?

Task Force to Combat Spread of Dengue Fever

The Minister for the Environment and Water Resources has just appointed you to be part of a taskforce set up to combat the spread of dengue fever in your constituency.

The members of the taskforce are leaders from schools, officers from the National Environment Agency (NEA), the Ministry of Health (MOH), and the Town Council.

Your mission is to come up with a plan to eliminate all possible sources of mosquito breeding and also destroy adult mosquito population.

You only have 1 week to come up with the plan, 3 weeks to execute it and 1 week to check the results.

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Life cycle of Aedes Mosquito

Understanding the life cycle of Aedes mosquito is key to unlocking the Dengue outbreak problem, because Aedes is the primary vector or carrier of the Dengue virus.

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