Typhoid: CDC to the rescue

A UNITED States health agency has deployed its experts in laboratory and epidemiological surveillance support to Zimbabwe to assist government’s plan to contain the outbreak of typhoid, an official has said.

Centre for Diseases Control (CDC)-Zimbabwe chapter head, Shirish Balachandra told a local radio station that his organisation had dispatched a team to help government fight typhoid.

“For our part, we were asked to provide two things — the first is epidemiologic surveillance support and the second is laboratory support.

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