Zika virus: Singapore reports new strain originating in Asia
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Singapore has reported 215 cases of Zika infections, as scientists in the city-state said the virus strain came from within Asia and was not imported from Brazil.
The Ministry of Health and National Environment Agency said in a joint statement on Saturday evening that of the 26 new cases reported on Saturday, 24 were linked to a cluster in the Aljunied district where the country's first locally-transmitted cases were reported
Meanwhile in Malaysia
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Malaysian man dies in country's first locally transmitted case
The patient, whose blood and urine samples tested positive for Zika, did not travel overseas recently and was probably bitten by Aedes mosquito infected with Zika, the ministry said.
I bet it originated somewhere in rural China and the govt just covered it up
China is really far away from Singapore and Malay... They are not connected... And it doesn't really have the tropical climate for the virus to spread...