Tuberculosis On The Rise in S'pore. MOH to start contact tracing.......

Just saw it on CNA.

CCB....I am keeping away from crowded public places from now on.

Must be all the Ah Nehs they let in.

India has the highest TB rate in the world. They even have drug-resistant TB.

CCB, I hope they have not brought that into S'pore.

Hope the farking MIWs are proud of their FT policy.

S'pore is so small. If TB spreads, liao.

For MOH to start contact tracing, alarm bells must have started ringing.

TB rising in Singapore, contact tracing to be implemented

TB rising in Singapore, contact tracing to be implemented
By Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 28 November 2008 1632 hrs

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/392873/1/.html


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X-ray of a patient with tuberculosis




SINGAPORE: About 700 new cases of tuberculosis or TB were reported among Singapore residents in the first six months of 2008 compared to 1,256 cases for the whole of last year.

The projected incidence of TB this year is 38.4 per 100,000, higher than the 35.1 per 100,000 in 2007.

To tackle the rise, the Health Ministry will place TB under the Sixth Schedule of the Infectious Diseases Act from December 1.

With the change, the ministry can now disclose particulars of the TB patient to the relevant authorities, and contact tracing can be carried out for infectious TB patients who have travelled on long-haul flights.

Infectious TB patients will also be prohibited from travelling on commercial flights, and recalcitrant TB patients will be required to complete treatment.

Those who continue to default their treatment may also be detained at the Communicable Diseases Centre at Tan Tock Seng Hospital till they are cured.

TB is a treatable disease, and it can spread through close prolonged contact such as sitting close to a person with TB on the plane.

86 per cent of the increase in TB cases in 2008 was among persons aged 50 and above.

The Health Ministry said these older adults went through periods when TB was highly prevalent, and they would have acquired latent infection in those early years and are manifesting the disease now.

- CNA/ir

Ah neh and PRCs lah. They have practically no health care or access to it. Traditional herbs are either so dead or contaminated it has no value of hastens death. So I welcome 6.5 million and with the current stuffy MRTs, it is the best incubator possible. Praise the lord and MRT will tell you we did not know when it happens. If they are responsible, they better learn how to keep their tax revenue objects carefully.

Re: TB rising in Singapore, contact tracing to be implemented

>>>SINGAPORE: About 700 new cases of tuberculosis or TB were reported among Singapore residents in the first six months of 2008 compared to 1,256 cases for the whole of last year. <<<

Surely, they do have the nos. of Sporns or FTrash? What are the Papayas trying to hide?

Leegimeremover said:

Ah neh and PRCs lah. They have practically no health care or access to it. Traditional herbs are either so dead or contaminated it has no value of hastens death. So I welcome 6.5 million and with the current stuffy MRTs, it is the best incubator possible. Praise the lord and MRT will tell you we did not know when it happens. If they are responsible, they better learn how to keep their tax revenue objects carefully.

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No Lah!

Mostly Ah Nehs for TB. Not PRCs.

I am avoiding places they go. I am avoiding curry restaurants, places they work.

Not racists but its widely known India have the highest TB rate in the world.

Getting TB is no joke ok. Further more our news always never state transoarents facts one.

How many S'poreans got TB? How many Ah Nehs FTs? Never say.

ahleebabasingaporethief said:

No Lah!

Mostly Ah Nehs for TB. Not PRCs.

I am avoiding places they go. I am avoiding curry restaurants, places they work.

Not racists but its widely known India have the highest TB rate in the world.

Getting TB is no joke ok. Further more our news always never state transoarents facts one.

How many S'poreans got TB? How many Ah Nehs FTs? Never say.

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China is land of the SARs. Any respiratory illness can turn TB. Do not give all the credit to Ah nehs. Wait till the Latinos and Afros come in. Welcome to the Spaniards in Latino America with measles equivalent epidemic. This time, pick your choice. For all you know, disease might do the Leegime economically or physically in their ill conceived ideas of social darwinism. You would expect this from a failed criminal lawyer who received graces from the British.

its almost out of control with so many aneh and african coming in for free citizenship.