Four years after laboratory studies on using male Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to control the mosquito population were conducted, about 3,000 of the insects were set free in Braddell Heights on Tuesday (Oct 18), one of the three sites selected…
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Another 31 new cases of locally-transmitted Zika infections were confirmed as of noon yesterday, including that of a second mother-to-be. Perhaps more worrying, three cases not linked to any existing clusters have been identified. The three patients live at Tagore…
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Half of the Zika cases in Singapore are foreigners who live or work here, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday (Sept 1). Out of 115 cases, 57 are foreigners. The largest group is 23 people from China, followed…
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The Zika Clinical Advisory Group, comprising experts in obstetrics, paediatrics, infectious diseases and laboratory capabilities, was unanimous about offering free testing to pregnant women islandwide with Zika symptoms, as they fear the disease could have spread beyond the current outbreak…
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‘Cover up!’ screamed the immediate reaction I noticed on social media. The Health ministry had just announced that they have found 41 cases of Zika infection, barely 24 hours after they said that there was one confirmed case (on Saturday 27…
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