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Five new chikungunya infection cases reported
By Lynlee Foo, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 13 August 2008 1735 hrs

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SINGAPORE: Five more people have caught the chikungunya virus in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH), and none of them have travelled overseas recently.

They include two foreign workers at Kranji Way – a 48-year-old worker who works and lives at the Kranji site and a 34-year-old worker who has gone to Kranji Way several times.

This brings the total number of cases linked to the Kranji Way cluster to 30.

Separately, a 31-year-old foreigner who works at Sungei Kadut Street 6 also contracted the mosquito-borne disease. Health officers have screened the worker's colleagues, as well as those he lives with. None of them have been tested positive.

Authorities also reported chikungunya infection cases in Yishun and Hougang. A 20-year-old accounts assistant living in Hougang Street 22 was admitted to hospital on August 7, but he has since recovered.

Another victim is a 42-year-old contractor who lives in Yishun Avenue 5. He fell ill late last month, but has also recovered after seeing a doctor.


- CNA/so


 


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