Mathaba News Agency
9 May 2008
SINGAPORE, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's Health Ministry confirmed the 17th case of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease here on Thursday.
The ministry revealed that the latest victim was E. C. Sng, among the four new cases that caught the disease overseas recently.
Sng believed he caught the virus while playing golf at Jakarta's Jagorawi Golf and Country Club a month ago. His infectious period is now over.
Since the first local-transmitted case was detected on Jan. 14, so far 13 people have been infected locally while another four caught the virus overseas, the ministry said.
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