Dengue fever, Singapore raises the alarm

An epidemic season that started early, which by the end of May had already recorded double the cases compared to 2021. Singapore raises the Dengue alarm and experts warn that the numbers reported by the Southeast Asian city-state are a bad signal for everything the world, and not only for the areas traditionally most beaten by Aedes mosquitoes, vector of the virus responsible for ‘bone-splitting fever’: “Global warming due to climate change will eventually expand the geographical areas affected by Dengue and lengthen the transmission season “, says among others Ruklanthi de Alwis, specialist in emerging infectious diseases at the Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, quoted by ‘Cnn’. More frequent and widespread outbreaks are therefore expected in larger areas of the planet. “As of May 28, 2022 – a spokesman for the Singapore Ministry of Health told the US broadcaster – about 11,670 cases of Dengue had been reported”, more than doubled from 5,258 in 2021, “about 10% of which required hospitalization in the hospital “. And if hospitalizations remain at a “manageable level” for now and there have been no deaths at the moment, the most risky season has just begun and the fear for the coming months paints a picture defined by the minister as an “urgent phase of emergency” of Singapore Internal Affairs, Desmond Tan. High fever, severe headaches and intense pains are the most common symptoms of Dengue, which in the most serious forms can also cause bleeding, breathing difficulties, organ failure, and even death. “It’s not an easy disease to cure,” says Singapore doctor Clarence Yeo Sze Kin.