Viral awareness


  • Health
  • Sunday, 27 Apr 2003

Consultant paediatrician Datin Dr REBECCA GEORGE offers her insights about a disease that may not appear to be as pressing as SARS, but continues to exact its toll in our population – dengue fever

THESE are the days for the latest killer virus, SARS. What it is and how it is to be tackled is not known as yet. This time again the Asean countries have been hit, but increased travel to and fro has caused the virus to spread to the West as well.  

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