Two more Chikungunya patients found in Singapore
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Last Update: 2020-07-04
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Singapore's Ministry of Health said on the 18th,Singapore has found2,
chikungunya patients,the number of chikungunya patients in the country increased to eightThe20,
patientshave been sent tohospital for isolation treatmentthe, Singapore's Asia News Agency
reported Wednesday eveningOf the previous six patients
2
were still being treated in isolation, while four others had recovered All eight patients live in the same area of south-central Singapore and have not recently left Singapore, so they are believed to have contracted the virus locally in Singapore The day before, Singapore's Ministry of Health and environment issued a press release saying that, unlike previously found cases of chikungunya virus contracted abroad, Singapore has now found cases of local transmission of the virus Chikungunya is an acute infectious disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, whose clinical symptoms are sudden fever
headache
, vomiting , joint pain and lower back pain, and the most effective response is to take preventive measures
reduce mosquito breeding
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