A Singapore victim asks: how mystery illness turned out to be Zika?

He broke out in rashes two days after coming down with a slight fever, but after three blood tests and a urine test at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) last Thursday, he was cleared to go home.

Then two days later, the 44-year-old man, who lives at Block 54 on Sims Drive, was told he may have caught the Zika virus and would have to go back to the hospital’s emergency department for further tests. He tested positive for the virus and was transferred to the Communicable Diseases Centre (CDC).

At that moment, his 55-year-old wife, Madam Ratnawati Mohd Yusoff, had two questions on her mind: What is Zika and how did her husband get it?

Mr Mohammed Firdaus Lim was one of the 40 patients who was confirmed to have the Zika virus by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Sunday.

He is a stroke patient unable to move on his own and had not gone out two weeks before his fever. Full story...

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