Zika virus -- Singapore
Confirmed cases of Zika virus in Singapore rose to 82 on [Tue 30 Aug 2016], as the United States joined a growing list of countries warning pregnant women or those trying to get pregnant to avoid travel to the city-state.
The mosquitoborne Zika virus, which has caused explosive outbreaks in the Americas and the Caribbean since late last year [2015], poses a particular risk to pregnant women because it can cause microcephaly, a severe birth defect in which babies are born with abnormally
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