Fighting Infections: A History Of Singapore Infectious Diseases

This book is targeted at the general public, healthcare workers, general practitioners, nurses, medical students, and everybody who is interested in infectious diseases. It is about infections that have come to Singapore either as large-scale pandemics or by individual travelers bringing them to this country. Singapore stands as a testament to what strategic public health can achieve against the relentless tide of infectious diseases. A densely populated city-state of over six million people, Singapore has transformed from a tropical hotspot vulnerable to epidemics in the mid-20th century grappling with outbreaks of malaria, tuberculosis, and smallpox that claimed thousands of lives annually, into a global benchmark for disease control. The nation boasts near-elimination of many once-endemic threats, with robust vaccination programs, surveillance systems, and inter-agency coordination driving down incidence rates.