Singapore Breaks Into Homes to Stem Dengue Fever: Southeast Asia
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Singapore’s dengue cases are set to surge to a record this year, prompting the government to break into homes that could be breeding grounds for mosquitoes that transmit the disease.
Inspectors have broken into three homes suspected of housing mosquitoes since the start of the year, the National Environment Agency said today. They cut the delay before forcing entry into locked premises to one week from two this month, it said. Dengue infections may rise to 23,000 this year, exceeding the record 14,000 in 2005, Leo Yee Sin, director of Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s communicable disease center, said yesterday.