The Ministry of Health (MOH) in its press release on Wednesday, announced that another 11 people were diagnosed with Zika virus infection As of 12pm, 11 September, making the total number of cases to 329.
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Both cases, she said, “presented mild skin rashes and not accompanied by other signs and symptoms unlike the index case, who has joint pains and red eyes, aside from skin rashes”.
Of the 22 Sathon cases, three people were infected while traveling outside the capital. The virus can cause birth defects and can also result in microcephaly in which the baby’s head is smaller than expected.
Anutarasak Ratchatatat, assistant director of the Vector-Borne Disease Bureau under the Disease Control Department, said that from Jan-Aug, 97 patients infected with the Zika virus had been found in 16 provinces nationwide.
SINGAPORE-Eight pregnant women have been infected by the Zika virus among the 329 cases in Singapore, the government said on Sunday.
In the macaque, the foetal brain stopped growing 3 weeks after infection, said the authors. Now there are 126 confirmed travel-related cases of the virus reported in 18 out of 21 counties.
Howard Haft, deputy secretary for public health services said the state’s large global population make containing Zika more hard as many people from the state travel overseas to the areas where the disease is prevalent such as South and Central America and the Caribbean. Of the latest two Zika cases, none of the patients were found to be pregnant, she added.
The resident, whose name is being withheld by the state Department of Health, recently returned from a trip to a country where there is active transmission of the virus, according to a statement Monday from Atlantic County. If a woman is pregnant or trying to get pregnant, she should not have unprotected sex with a man who has been to an area where the virus is spreading.
Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell alerted his constituents of two persons in his area being a part of that five with the virus.
Masagos Zulkifli said more than 10,000 breeding habitats around Singapore were destroyed between January and July this year, and half of which were in homes, while about 5 percent in construction sites.
The monkey study closely mimicked a Zika infection during the third trimester of pregnancy, allowing the researchers to investigate the cause-and-effect relationships between the virus and brain injury in a developing fetus.
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According to Dr. Ubial, the two additional cases were confirmed through the samples of specimens of urine and blood tested at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
