The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an alert for Singapore, where
the Zika virus is being locally transmitted.
The CDC is urging
travelers to Singapore to protect themselves from mosquito bites and use
condoms or other barriers, or not have sex, as sexual transmission of the virus
is possible.
Pregnant women are urged not to travel to Singapore, or any other locations where the virus
is being transmitted, because Zika is linked with serious birth defects.
Singapore joins a
growing list of locations where the virus is being locally transmitted,
including the United States in two areas of Miami-Dade County and many parts of the
Caribbean and South America.