by Melissa Kok
THE number of dengue cases has reached 'warning levels', but the National Environment Agency (NEA) said it is far from the number seen in the 2005 outbreak of the disease.
Last month, the weekly average number of cases hit 149, crossing warning levels set by the Health Ministry (MOH). Last week, another 185 dengue cases were reported.
The MOH's Weekly Infectious Disease Bulletin, published online, puts the warning level for dengue at 146 cases a week. An epidemic level is reached at 191 cases a week.
Still, the number of cases now is much lower than in 2005, when 25 people died in Singapore's worst dengue outbreak. The warning and epidemic levels back then were also higher, at 256 cases and 378 cases a week respectively.
The levels are based on the number of cases in the past five years. The higher the number of previous cases, the higher the levels are.
'Given that dengue cases have been relatively low in the past years since the 2005 outbreak, this year's warning and epidemic levels are at the lower end,' said an NEA spokesman in a statement on Tuesday.
I got do my part for the country.
I killed any mosquitoes I see incase It's aedes mosquitoes.
I just killed one the other day.