It has been a while since I last updated on the local Group B Streptococcus (GBS) outbreak in Singapore that is linked to the consumption of raw bighead carp. The good news is that there has been a dramatic fall in the number of cases of severe GBS after the National Environment Agency (NEA) recommended […]
Another week has gone by and we have completed filming even more interviews, although still less than half of what we intend for the documentary. The team from Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s CampusTV has really performed well and professionally. I would not hesitate to use them for future projects. In the past week, we have interviewed: […]
It is parliamentary election season in Singapore now and there are several firsts this round. The most significant to me personally are that I will finally get a chance to vote, and that there is an infectious diseases physician contesting this time as a candidate for the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), one of the older […]
Since yesterday, we have finally started our video interviews for our SG50 Project on Infectious Diseases and Singapore. The interviews are filmed by a team from Campus TV from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, who will also produce the documentary. We are immensely indebted to our interviewees, all of whom have agreed to give of their valuable time […]
Reading through several articles and reports on antimicrobial resistance, I came across a news story about a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas outbreak linked to duodenoscopes at Huntington Memorial Hospital in the U.S.A. This is not the only outbreak linked to endoscopes this year – the more noteworthy event occurred at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Centre, with 7 ill and 2 […]
Less well known than it should be, the Patient Care Centre (PCC) can be found within the grounds of the Communicable Diseases Centre at Moulmein Road. It was established in 1997 to support the poorer patients with HIV/AIDS, and to reduce the stigma associated with the disease.
I had the distinct pleasure and honour of meeting Prof Goh Kee Tai on Wednesday. He very kindly lent me 3 books (2 of which were authored by himself) to help with the SIDS SG50 Project. Looks like lots of midnight reading ahead…
We – as in the Society of Infectious Diseases (Singapore), or SIDS for short – have just been awarded a small grant by the SG50 Celebration Fund to carry out our project “Overcoming Infectious Diseases in Singapore: Past, Present and Future“. Singapore is a young nation at the crossroads of Asia and consistently faces the […]
The Singapore Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (STEP) Registry and TB Contact Clinic used to be based out of a charming (but rickety) old colonial-style bungalow along Moulmein Road. After several months, renovations have been completed.
Yesterday evening, in a joint statement issued by the Ministry of Health (MOH), Agri-Food &Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) and the National Environment Agency (NEA), the authorities revealed that there had been 238 cases of Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) bacteraemia between 1st January and 30th June this year, compared to 150 cases per year on average for the […]
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