Outbreaks of typhoid fever confirmed in Western Cape and North West, South Africa

  • There are currently four outbreaks of enteric fever, three of them in the Western Cape, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Wednesday.
  • There are currently 64 cases of enteric fever in the Western Cape, in three separate outbreaks, 18 in North West, 45 in Gauteng, 12 in Mpumalanga, nine in KwaZulu-Natal, seven in the Eastern Cape, four in the Free State and four in Limpopo.
  • Dr Juno Thomas from the NICD said the last big outbreak of enteric fever in the country was in 2005, in Delmas, and was traced to a contaminated water supply.