Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally transmitted Zika virus, mostly among foreign construction workers, and said it expected more cases to be identified.

All but seven of those infected had fully recovered, the Health Ministry and the National Environment Agency said in a statement on Sunday. The seven remain in hospital.

On Saturday, authorities confirmed a 47-year-old Malaysian woman living in southeastern Singapore as the city-state's first case of a local transmission of the virus.

Zika, carried by some mosquitoes, was detected in Brazil last year and has since spread across the Americas. The virus poses a risk to pregnant women because it can cause severe birth defects. It has been linked in Brazil to more than 1,600 cases of microcephaly, where babies are born with small heads.
（by Reuters）

local Zika transmission　　　ジカ熱国内感染
authorities　　　　当局
Zika virus infection　　　ジカウィルス感染 → ジカ熱
be locally transmitted　　　　国内で感染する
expect to　　　　～する見込みである

　シンガポールはハブ空港なのでジカ熱の感染の拡大が心配です。