CHIKUNGUNYA started by infecting 13 people in Little India in January this year.

Then, two cases of the dengue-like illness emerged in Upper Thomson Road five months later.

And only two days ago, an expatriate housewife in Farrer Road was diagnosed with the disease.

Now, a scientist working on a vaccine to fight against Chikungunya believes it is just a matter of time until the virus becomes a permanent part of Singapore's disease landscape.

Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.