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cord-016006-7yas4yqt	Yoshikawa, Minako Jen	Dengue and chikungunya virus infection in Southeast Asia: active governmental intervention in Republic of Singapore	2010-06-18		.txt	text/plain	5575	251	45	This paper discusses countermeasures of Republic of Singapore towards mosquito-borne infectious diseases, particularly, dengue and chikungunya virus infection to identify an essential factor in controlling emergence of infectious diseases. Although a considerable number of studies on its outbreak response, surveillance, prevention, and disease management have been conducted by the medical and science community, others often attribute Singapore's outstanding infectious disease control to the small territory and economic affluence alone. In addition, the regulatory requirement made dengue infection legally notifiable in 1977 under the Infectious Diseases Act of 1976 while DHF had been already made administratively notifiable in 1966 [11, 12, 13] .While the rest of the Southeast Asian region experienced epidemics in 1976 and 1977, the vector control system contributed to low frequency of DHF in Singapore [10] . It is necessary to keep in mind that curving mosquito-borne epidemics like dengue infection and chikungunya fever require capacities such as laboratory-based surveillance and territory-wide vector control program as well as regional collaboration.	./cache/cord-016006-7yas4yqt.txt	./txt/cord-016006-7yas4yqt.txt