A recent outbreak of chickenpox among foreign workers in Singapore was not unexpected. Since 1990, Singapore has reported some of the highest reported rates of varicella in the region. In the attached graph I’ve compared recent reporting statistics with those of neighboring countries. Rates for the United States are included for comparison.

Update: Appeared in ProMED

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