Singapore reports 41 new cases of the head-shrinking Zika virus.

More than 40 people have been infected by the Zika virus in Singapore, the Ministry of Health has confirmed. 


Singapore announced its first Zika infection in May, with the virus imported by a 48-year-old man who had traveled to Brazil. On Sunday, the Ministry of Health confirmed 41 locally transmitted cases of the virus.

The patients were 'not known to have traveled to Zika-affected areas recently, and are thus likely to have been infected in Singapore,' The ministry said in a statement.

'This confirms that local transmission of Zika virus infection has taken place.'

Daily mail