Zika

The new testing kit will take about 15 minutes to analyse blood samples for a key dengue protein

More than 120 pregnancies, or about 5 %, resulted in Zika-associated birth defects

Zika can cause brain defects such as microcephaly, a condition in which child's brain and skull are unusually small

This is the first Zika-linked microcephaly in Southeast Asia, says World Health Organisation

It is currently at the prototype stage, and Phoenix Molecular owns intellectual property in sample preparation

Sixteen pregnant women have been confirmed to have the virus in Singapore

Zika infections in pregnant women have been shown to cause microcephaly, a severe birth defect

Report comes after an outbreak of the disease that at first affected three dozen workers on a construction site

WHO sent teams of senior scientists to Brazil to assess the level of risk to athletes and spectators, says official

'The Brazilian strain of Zika virus harms health in ways that science has not observed before' experts