DOH seeks to control typhoid fever outbreak in Calamba

The Manila Times | March 4, 2008| | Copyright

The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday said it has sent a team of epidemiologists or disease experts to Calamba City, Laguna, to contain the typhoid fever outbreak in several areas in the said city, where some 1,262 typhoid fever cases were reported.

The DOH-National Epidemiology Center (NEC) director, Dr. Eric Tayag, said the team will also try to determine the cause of the upsurge of typhoid fever cases and help local authorities and health officials in decreasing the number of cases.

The DOH has already declared an outbreak of typhoid fever in the city even before the number of ...

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