Zimbabwe: 2012 Typhoid outbreaks

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Health fears as typhoid infects over 600 in Harare
By KITSEPILE NYATHI in HararePosted Tuesday, January 24 2012 at 12:19

A fresh typhoid outbreak in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare has left 600 residents infected and 90 hospitalised in the past few days.

Authorities warned the outbreak, initially confined to populated suburbs, was fast spreading to the rest of the city after a hotel employee was hospitalised...

 

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Huge new typhoid outbreak in Zimbabwe
2012-01-24 21:55


Harare - Authorities say more than 660 people have been treated for typhoid in Zimbabwe's capital but that the outbreak of the bacterial disease appears to be waning.

Harare health director Dr Prosper Chonzi says about 70 people were in the hospital on Tuesday. Another 20 were sent home after treatment. He says no deaths have been reported.

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http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Huge-new-typhoid-outbreak-in-Zimbabwe-20120124

 

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Typhoid hits Zimbabwe capital

At least 90 people were admitted to hospital and over 600 affected in a typhoid outbreak in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, a health official says.

"We have attended to over 600 cases in Kuwadzana alone," city health director Prosper Chonzi was quoted as saying in the state-owned Herald newspaper.

"We have confirmed that the disease is typhoid. We have not recorded any deaths. We have over 90 patients admitted at the Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital."

Chonzi said city health authorities found traces of the typhoid bacteria in meat samples taken from open-air vendors.

Typhoid thrives in areas that do not have proper sanitation.

Poor hygiene and sanitation have caused numerous disease outbreaks in Zimbabwe in recent years.

 

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Source: http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2012-01-26-declare-typhoid-outbreak-an-emergency/

Declare typhoid outbreak an emergency
NewsDay Comment | 2012-01-26 16:26:00

The number of typhoid cases in Harare continues to rise on a daily basis with council putting the number of people treated for the contagious disease at 756...

 

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Source: http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2012-01-28-typhoid-outbreak-council-threatens-firms/

Typhoid outbreak: Council threatens firms
Moses Matenga, Staff Reporter | 2012-01-28 11:18:00

Harare City Council has threatened to close down businesses and ban illegal vendors believed to be selling contaminated products, as the local authority suspects most of them were responsible for the spread of the typhoid outbreak that has hit Harare...

 

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Zimbabwe typhoid cases rises to nearly 900 amid fears of cholera outbreak loom
Source: XINHUA | 2012-1-28 | ONLINE EDITION

HARARE, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- In Zimbabwe's capital Harare, many of the hotels, restaurants and open air food spots face immediate closure for failing to meet health and hygienic standards amid fears that a cholera outbreak looms, state media warned on Saturday.

The move is part of a cocktail of measures designed to contain the spread of typhoid and follow recent reports indicating that a hotel worker had tested positive for typhoid.

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As of Friday afternoon, 882 typhoid cases had been attended to in Kuwadzana, the epicenter of the outbreak. Another 64 people were admitted at the Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospitals while on Thursday alone, 53 people were treated of typhoid symptoms at Kuwadzana Polyclinic.

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http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.asp?id=47951

 

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Source: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=94758

ZIMBABWE: Typhoid stalks Harare

HARARE, 30 January 2012 (IRIN) - Over the past few weeks some 900 residents of the Zimbabwean capital Harare have been diagnosed with typhoid, and about 60 have been admitted to hospital, say health authorities.

?Initially, we were focusing on Dzivarasekwa high density suburb as being the source of the disease outbreak but we are now receiving patients from different high density suburbs in Harare such as Kuwadzana and Warren Park,? Harare?s health director, Propser Chonzi, told IRIN...

 

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Zimbabwe treats more than 1,500 typhoid cases
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HARARE ? Zimbabwe is reporting up to 50 cases of typhoid per day and has treated more than 1,500 people in an outbreak blamed on poor water and sanitation facilities, the health minister said Tuesday.

"By the end of December 2011, more than 1,500 cases had been seen and treated," Henry Madzorera told a news conference in the capital Harare.

"An average of 30 to 50 cases are reported on a daily basis."

The bacterial disease is transmitted by contaminated food and water. Since the current outbreak started last October, 350 suspected cases and 16 confirmations were reported in the first three weeks of this year. No deaths have been reported up to now...

 

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Zimbabwe: Harare to Ration Water in Wealthy Suburbs As Typhoid Cases Rise
By Tererai Karimakwenda, 1 February 2012

The City of Harare announced drastic measures on Tuesday in an effort to contain the typhoid outbreak threatening the capital, including water rationing for the wealthy suburbs and the closure of all water holes dug up by desperate residents in the poor areas.

At a press conference Tuesday, town clerk Tendai Mahachi said the poor townships would receive uninterrupted water supplies to help eliminate typhoid. He said wealthy areas would be provided water about twice per week. Mahachi is quoted as saying: "the wealthy can afford to buy water" and cope with outages.

Health Minister Dr. Henry Madzorera told the reporters that an average of 30 to 50 cases of typhoid were being reported daily and more than 1,500 had been treated by the end of December last year. Fortunately, no deaths have been reported so far...

 

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Typhoid hits Harare
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The Harare Magistrates Court has been shut down after five magistrates and more than 20 other court officials became ill with suspected typhoid.

Zimbabwe has been battling an outbreak of the disease since November, but until now infections were confined to the western suburbs...

 

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Two suspected typhoid deaths in Zimbabwe
13 February, 2012 01:57:00 DPA

THE Health Ministry in Zimbabwe said on Monday it has recorded two suspected typhoid deaths, as an outbreak of the disease appeared to worsen.

The ministry was awaiting laboratory analysis to confirm if the deaths were the result of the bacterial disease that is spread through contaminated food
and water. The two people were reported to have died in the last five days.

Since the start of the outbreak in late October, 2,716 cases have been identified, mostly in two crowded townships with limited and run-down
sanitation infrastructure near the capital Harare.
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http://www.zimbabwereporter.com/humanrights/4479.html

 

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Zimbabwe: Two Succumb to Typhoid, 2 000 Treated
15 February 2012

TWO people have died and about 2 000 patients have been treated of typhoid since the first case was recorded last year in October.

Harare City Council Director of Health Services Dr Prosper Chonzi said one fatality was that of a 15-year-old boy who was previously treated for typhoid and discharged. Dr Chonzi said it was established that the boy did not finish the course given to him upon discharge.

He said upon investigation, it was found that his father confiscated the prescribed tablets citing religious beliefs.

He said the other case involved a lady who died at Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital (Nazareth) upon arrival...

 

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Typhoid spreads
Phillip Chidavaenzi Senior Reporter | 2012-02-29 09:03:00
Some 203 new cases of typhoid were this week recorded as the disease spread to other parts of the country amid fears the contagion could explode to the 2008 cholera outbreak levels.
The fresh cases were recorded in Kuwadzana (93), Mufakose (31), Crowborough (22), Parirenyatwa Hospital (1), Bindura (23) and other areas across the country (33).

Since the first outbreak in October, the epidemic has claimed one life and recorded 3 074 suspected cases.
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http://www.newsday.co.zw//article/2012-02-29-typhoid-spreads/

 

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Typhoid slowly engulfing Zimbabwe
by Peter Marimudza Wednesday 29 February 2012

HARARE -- A typhoid outbreak that began in Harare last year is steadily spreading across Zimbabwe with more than 3 000 cases reported although only one death due to the disease has been reported so far, health officials have said.

New infections have in recent months been recorded in districts lying several hundreds of kilometres away from the capital, highlighting the risk that the typhoid outbreak could turn into a crisis of similar proportions to a cholera epidemic that wrecked havoc across Zimbabwe from 2008 to 2009...

 

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Source: http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-7355-Typhoid+cases+soar+in+Harare/news.aspx

Typhoid cases soar in Harare
04/03/2012 00:00:00
by AFP

SOME 3,000 cases of typhoid have been reported in Harare since the first case was detected in a working-class suburb in January, state media reported on Sunday.

"At the moment we have over 3,000 cases, both suspected and confirmed," The Sunday Mail newspaper quoted Prosper Chonzi, the city's health services director as saying.

More than 90 people from one of the capital's suburbs, Kuwadzana, were admitted to hospital in January. Health authorities banned open-air food vending to try to curb the spread of the disease.
"Our worry is that typhoid is now spreading to other areas adjacent to Kuwadzana," Chonzi said...

 

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Zimbabwe: Harare Still to Contain Typhoid
By Jennifer Dube, 8 April 2012

Cases of typhoid are still being reported in Harare's high-density suburbs every day since the outbreak of the disease last year.

Head of Harare's two infectious disease hospitals, Beatrice and Wilkins, Clemence Duri said most of the cases were emanating from Dzivarasekwa and Kuwadzana high-density suburbs, areas which always experience frequent water cuts.

"As of the 1st of January, we were receiving 90 cases per day in Dzivarasekwa and Kuwadzana which were the highest number of cases but now we are getting less than 20," Duri said. "Admissions are now very few compared to January. We have since adopted a preventive strategy because of the risk that it can spread to other areas."

More than 4 000 cases of typhoid have been recorded in Harare since October last year while nearly 1 000 people have been treated for dysentery in the past two months...

 

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Zimbabwe: Water Shortages Blamed for Typhoid Outbreak in Chitungwiza
By Alex Bell, 19 July 2012

A Health Ministry official has blamed water shortages and sewerage problems in Chitungwiza for an outbreak of typhoid, which the Ministry has been trying to stop from becoming a nationwide crisis.

The Ministry this week confirmed reports of fresh cases of the water-borne bacterial disease in the high-density suburb outside Harare. According to a report in the Daily News newspaper the director for disease control in the Ministry, Portia Manangazira, said several people have been affected but no specific numbers were given...

 

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Harare & Chitungwiza hit by typhoid outbreak
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:09 Editor News

A TYPHOID outbreak has hit Harare and Chitungwiza, with at least 111 confirmed cases by yesterday.

City officials attributed the outbreak to water shortages in the city and its satellite towns of Chitungwiza, Norton, Ruwa and Epworth...

 

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Zimbabwe: Latest On Typhoid Outbreak
By Paidamoyo Chipunza, 27 July 2012


At least 51 more people were treated and discharged for suspected typhoid in Harare and Chitungwiza yesterday, as cases of the disease continue to increase. Those treated bring to 162 cases of typhoid after 111 others were treated in the two towns by Wednesday.

The typhoid outbreak has been attributed to water woos which continue to worsen in both towns.

Harare City Council director of health services Dr Prosper Chonzi said the city recorded 42 cases of suspected typhoid yesterday, with most of them testing positive.

Chitungwiza had nine more cases yesterday, after recording 83 by Wednesday.

"Cases are still rising and majority of them are testing positive," Dr Chonzi said...

 

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Doctors warn of ?public health crisis? as typhoid reported in Chegutu

A doctors? group in Zimbabwe has warned of a potentially devastating public health crisis in the form of a nationwide typhoid epidemic, with more cases of the disease being reported this week.
26.10.1207:38am
by Alex Bell

13 fresh cases of typhoid have been reported in Chegutu where the local authority has been slammed for failing for provide fresh water. The disease is spread through contaminated water and, like its bacterial cousin cholera, can be deadly.

Typhoid cases have been reported in different parts of Zimbabwe since last year, with the worst affected areas being the densely populated suburbs around Harare?s centre, including Kuwadzana and Mufakose. That initial outbreak was then followed by more cases that were confirmed in Bindura, Mashonaland Central and Norton and Zvimba in Mashonaland West. More incidents have also been reported in Chitungwiza and Kadoma.

So far there have been two confirmed deaths from the almost 5,000 suspected cases registered across the country. But with the onset of the rainy season there are serious warnings that the disease will continue to spread...