Dengue resurged in Singapore during 2013-14, resulting in then unprecedented number of cases in the country. I was part of a team of reporters who covered the outbreaks, and in mid-2014 discovered that a construction company which had repeatedly flouted anti-mosquito breeding regulations had likely contributed to a spike in one neighbourhood’s dengue cases. This became a front-page story in The Straits Times and led to a series of articles calling for stiffer penalties for such repeat offenders.