Asia is on the cusp of a summer of life-threatening dengue fever.
In this episode of Asian Insider, ST's global contributor Nirmal Ghosh hosts experts on the dengue threat - Prof Ooi Eng Eong and Prof Duane Gubler .
Emeritus Prof Gubler, who is also founding director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Programme at Duke NUS Medical School, identifies himself as having maverick views on climate and dengue. “They occur in the Gulf Coast states. And we do have sporadic transmission now and then, mainly from introduced viruses. But we didn’t control it by reducing the temperature or by controlling the mosquitoes.”
Prof Ooi emphasised the need to consider minimising the mosquito population when building future cities.
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