Chikungunya virus may stay in S'pore permanently
Dengue-like illness started by infecting 13 people in Little India in January this year.
Judith Tan
Fri, Jun 13, 2008
The Straits Times
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.