High alert due to soaring number of dengue cases

NST: After four months of battling hard to bring down the dengue epidemic, Malaysia is back on high alert as the number of cases soared last week.
With the disease claiming 68 lives up to Sept 10, the health authorities are concerned that there may be more casualties.
Their worries are burgeoning as 9,540 people in Singapore have been reported down with the virus up to Sept 12, surpassing the previous record of 9,459 last year.
An action plan has been activated in Johor to cater to a possible increase in dengue cases following the outbreak in the neighbouring republic.
All over Asia, governments are scrambling to curtail the spread of the disease, with the agenda topped by efforts to educate the public on the disease and control mosquito-breeding areas as there is no known cure for dengue.