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One pregnant woman diagnosed with Zika and dengue






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By Kenneth Cheng


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Published: 8:10 PM, September 2, 2016
Updated: 8:34 PM, September 2, 2016
SINGAPORE — A pregnant woman has been diagnosed with dengue and Zika. The 24-year-old entrepreneur received her Zika test result on Thursday (Sept 1) afternoon, and it is not clear if she is one of the two Zika-infected pregnant women that the Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced so far.
When contacted by TODAY, MOH said it “would not disclose any information relating to patients”.
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Mary (not her real name) is six months’ pregnant with her second child. She told TODAY that on Tuesday, she had developed dengue-like symptoms — fever and joint ache — and visited a nearby general practitioner in Bedok South.
She was referred to Changi General Hospital (CGH), where she tested positive for dengue. Even though the doctors said it was unlikely that she has Zika, they tested for it too.
On Thursday afternoon, her urine test came out positive for Zika.
Mary said: “The doctor at CGH broke the news to (my husband and me) together, very slowly, and he was quite sensitive about it.
“I broke down for a while, but my husband helped.”
She was taken to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) in the evening for further checks. As the viral count in her second urine sample had “gone down”, she was told that she was no longer infectious, and discharged the same evening.
The doctor told her she had probably caught the virus a week ago.
She said that tests showed that her baby was fine for now, but four weeks later, she would have to go for another follow-up check-up to see if there are signs of her baby “not growing normally”.
But the second-time mum also told TODAY that she intended to follow through with her pregnancy.
“No matter what, we’re still going to go through with everything,” said Mary, adding that the odds of her baby developing birth defects was not very high and “it’s not that it’s confirmed”.
Although she has been diagnosed with Zika, her family members have not been offered testing for Zika.
Her two-year-old son, however, has been running a fever which subsided after taking paracetamol. She said she would take him to the doctor’s if his fever spikes again.
Zika infections during pregnancy have been linked to microcephaly, where a baby is born with an abnormally small brain and skull. Amniotic fluid testing can be done to screen for the virus, which is spread by the Aedes mosquito, but the MOH previously said that a positive test did not mean a baby would be born with defects.
As of noon on Friday, the number of locally transmitted Zika cases here, including look-back ones — those previously reported to have shown symptoms, but were not tested, stands at 189.
Recounting the past week’s events to TODAY, Mary said that her Zika diagnosis was rather “unexpected”. She had taken precautions, such as dousing herself and her son in mosquito repellent, for the past few weeks.
Asked about her plans, she said: “There’s not much I can really do right now besides buying all this stuff off shelves, and staying indoors.”


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