NEWS FLASH - Some Bukit Batok residents unperturbed by dengue threat

SINGAPORE:
It may have the largest dengue cluster in Singapore in nine years, but some Bukit Batok residents, it seems, do not see it as a serious threat.

Several residents TODAY spoke to were unaware whether their blocks were within the cluster — which now covers 40 blocks and close to 3,000 households — or not.

But statistics from the National Environment Agency (NEA) show that homes are the main breeding grounds. At least 50 home breeding sites were discovered at the three clusters in Bukit Batok — compared to only seven public areas, such as drains, discarded receptacles and puddles.

{ News extract dated 7 Sept 2007, Fri from Channel NewsAsia }