With health-care systems in countries already under strain as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Southeast Asian nations are grappling with yet another infectious disease outbreak: dengue fever.
Southeast Asia is seeing "exploding numbers" of dengue fever cases, according to Dr. Leong Hoe Nam, a Singapore-based infectious diseases physician at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital.
"We are seeing exploding numbers of dengue in South East Asia," Dr. Leong Hoe Nam, a Singapore-based infectious diseases physician at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, told CNBC in an email. "There is no doubt that it is going to be a bad year," said Leong, commenting on the situation in Singapore even before the NEA announcement.
"Unfortunately dengue met the best marriage partner — lockdown," Leong said. "With individuals staying at home , more are exposed to the dengue mosquitoes breeding in the neighbourhood." "People who are stuck at home all the time probably have greater contact with mosquitoes that are infected with dengue," Gubler said, warning that "greater precautions" needed to be taken to control mosquito larvae.
To compare infection rates, specialists use a metric known as "Dengue seroprevalence at aged 9 years," according to Leong.
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