Some of the local press (courtesy of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health‘s corporate communications team) picked up an obscure article that we published earlier this year in BMC Public Health, looking at the trend of tuberculosis in Singapore (among residents and non-residents) between 1995 and 2011. Here’s the Today link. Basically, we looked […]
The Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) journal – flagship journal of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) – has just published online a letter describing the outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among patrons of several LAN gaming centers in Singapore in 2012 (COI: I was involved at the laboratory end of investigations and am an […]
A previously healthy young man from Myanmar who works in the IT industry in Singapore. Presented with a left neck lump that increased gradually in size over the past 10 weeks, associated with a low-grade fever (up to 37.9 degrees Celsius) over the past month. No other systemic symptoms or such as cough or weight […]
The newly renovated Tuberculosis Control Unit building and outpatient clinics. Airy and pleasant.
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