Effectiveness of managing dengue fever in Singapore by

What do Singapore do?

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 09:03:52 UTC

- They do advertisements

- They put up posters

- They give out brochures

- They give talks in the school

- There are campaigns

- Check everyone's houses for stagnant water or any signs of dengue

- Banners

Sources

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 11:35:36 UTC

* http://www.dengue.gov.sg/

*archive.thedailystar.net

*http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/how-dengue-fever-virus-depletes-blood-platelets-1003.html

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 11:38:36 UTC

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 11:50:14 UTC

Journal write up on this issue

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 11:54:09 UTC

To help overcome that, researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have produced a “humanized mouse” that mimics many features of the human immune system. These mice can be infected with dengue virus, allowing researchers to observe how the infection progresses and identify possible drug targets.

The researchers now plan to try to generate the more severe form of dengue infection, which they did not see in this study. They also hope to use the mice to test antiviral compounds that have been developed as potential drugs to treat dengue fever.
The research was funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation through SMART’s Infectious Disease Interdisciplinary Research Group.

Summary for Journal write-up

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 12:00:15 UTC

I learnt that researches from Singapore and some other researches had produced a "humanised mouse" which mimiced the features of the human system. They are also planning to generate the more severe form of dengue infection.

summary about the pic

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 12:08:11 UTC

It contains stagnant water and some aedes mosquito eggs

Poster by our National Environment Agency

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 12:17:44 UTC

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 12:19:49 UTC

Brochure

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 12:20:05 UTC

News article

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-11 22:33:04 UTC

Singaporean health officials are stepping up efforts to beat back a tropical-disease outbreak that could become the city-state’s worst ever.Singapore is currently finding a solution to this problem

Mozzie wipeout

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-12 11:59:52 UTC

One of the ways Singapore do is advertising for example they advertise the mozzie wipeout routine

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-12 12:00:32 UTC

Information from book

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-12 12:04:31 UTC

Title: Human diseases and conditions(hardcopy)

Authors: neil Izenberg, M.D,Steven A. Dowshen M.D.

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Dengue is wide spread in Asia, Africa,South America and Central America. About 20 million cases develop annually wordwide, and the number of cases is on rise. It occurs more frequently in highly populated areas,often in cities like Singapore.

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Video

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-12 12:08:10 UTC

What does Singapore do to stop this?

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-12 12:10:52 UTC

There will be frequent checks for stagnant water or the signs of mosquito breedings by some people. They will alert us if there was something as so.

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-12 12:14:08 UTC

What Singapore do to prevent dengue fever...

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-15 10:13:22 UTC

Video

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-15 10:14:05 UTC

The book I referred to

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-19 08:37:37 UTC

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-19 08:39:39 UTC

Link for another news article

prabhakaran_sah — 2014-02-20 00:28:55 UTC

http://www.straitstimes.com/dengue_epidemic_in_singapore