Health dept says majority of typhoid cases in Tshwane fully recovered

The National Department of Health says the majority of typhoid cases in the City of Tshwane in Gauteng have fully healed and recovered.

The provincial and national health authorities are stepping up public awareness campaigns about the disease.

Health authorities say 48 typhoid cases have been reported in the Tshwane District since the beginning of the year.

The department’s spokesperson Foster Mohale says they’re probing if there could be more sources of typhoid transmission after earlier findings pointed to water contamination.

Mohale says they are conducting case findings as well as identifying all those who tested positive.

“To collect data in terms of travel history and other places they visited to get the list of people that they might have been in close contact. Who might have been infected as well. In order to establish the connection between those tested positive and the people that they were in contact with. We conduct contact tracing. We should not look at this total number of 48. Some of these cases were detected in January, others in February until now. So, the majority of these cases have recovered,” adds Mohale.

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