Outbreaks (General) 2

Tuberculosis, Singapore Curiously, a report of 2 SMRT train drivers and a crew manager being diagnosed with TB made it to the news today. Only one among them had active disease – the other two were diagnosed with latent tuberculosis which is non-infectious. Such cases are rarely highlighted in our mainstream media. The risk of tuberculosis […]

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Outbreaks (General)

A non-systematic mention of outbreaks that have caught my attention this week. For a more comprehensive search, there is ProMED Mail. One can also skim through the MOH’s weekly infectious diseases bulletin, which is only about local notifiable diseases (where one can quickly see that we have had more dengue and HFMD cases compared to […]

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Rio Olympics and Zika

In an open letter to the World Health Organization, 177 (and counting) international scientists and bioethicists –  including one from Singapore – have called for the Olympic and Para-Olympic games to be either postponed or shifted from its current site in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their concern is that holding the Olympics in Rio as […]

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Zika Infographic

Here is a nice infographic published by the MPH online website. Courtesy of Emily Maynard who helped with its creation. Source: MPHOnline.org

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Zika Article for April SMA News

Wrote a piece on Zika thanks to a kind invitation from the SMA News Editor. Submitted 9th March, published a few days ago, and already largely out of date. We have to accept that this is the speed of information gain today, which in many ways is not a bad thing. It is now widely […]

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