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TYPHOID FEVER - NEW
ZEALAND (02): (AUCKLAND) CHURCH COMMUNITY
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Date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 11:43 PM NZST
Source: ABC News, Associated Press (AP) report [edited]
<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/dead-14-sickened-zealand-typhoid-fever-outbreak-46559030>
An outbreak of typhoid fever among a church community in [Auckland,]
New Zealand has caused one death and left at least 14 other people
hospitalized, health authorities said. A person who traveled to the
Pacific Islands recently apparently contracted the disease there then
spread it to others in New Zealand, Health Minister Jonathan Coleman
said.
Most of the cases began emerging last week [week of 27 Mar 2017], and
Coleman said authorities don't believe the disease has been spread
through water contamination. "So it's person-to-person contact,"
Coleman said. "It's a congregation sharing food together, being in
close contact."
Health authorities said all those infected are members of the Samoan
Assembly of God, a Pacific church in Auckland. The congregants live in
several different suburbs across central and south Auckland.
The woman who died last week had other serious health issues and that
typhoid fever was a complicating factor, Dr Julia Peters, the clinical
director of the Auckland Regional Public Health Service, said in a
statement. "We are working with the church to trace other people who
may be infected and we are doing this while they are mourning the loss
of one of their own," Peters said.
Coleman said authorities have screened 140 people for the disease and
have another 60 to screen. He said he didn't believe the outbreak
posed a wider risk to the public beyond those who had been in direct
contact with the church congregation. The disease can be contracted by
eating food or drinking water handled by somebody who has the disease,
or when contaminated sewage comes into contact with drinking water.
[Byline: Nick Perry]
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A ProMED-mail post
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ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
<http://www.isid.org>
[1]
Date: Mon 3 Apr 2017 11:43 PM NZST
Source: ABC News, Associated Press (AP) report [edited]
<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/dead-14-sickened-zealand-typhoid-fever-outbreak-46559030>
An outbreak of typhoid fever among a church community in [Auckland,]
New Zealand has caused one death and left at least 14 other people
hospitalized, health authorities said. A person who traveled to the
Pacific Islands recently apparently contracted the disease there then
spread it to others in New Zealand, Health Minister Jonathan Coleman
said.
Most of the cases began emerging last week [week of 27 Mar 2017], and
Coleman said authorities don't believe the disease has been spread
through water contamination. "So it's person-to-person contact,"
Coleman said. "It's a congregation sharing food together, being in
close contact."
Health authorities said all those infected are members of the Samoan
Assembly of God, a Pacific church in Auckland. The congregants live in
several different suburbs across central and south Auckland.
The woman who died last week had other serious health issues and that
typhoid fever was a complicating factor, Dr Julia Peters, the clinical
director of the Auckland Regional Public Health Service, said in a
statement. "We are working with the church to trace other people who
may be infected and we are doing this while they are mourning the loss
of one of their own," Peters said.
Coleman said authorities have screened 140 people for the disease and
have another 60 to screen. He said he didn't believe the outbreak
posed a wider risk to the public beyond those who had been in direct
contact with the church congregation. The disease can be contracted by
eating food or drinking water handled by somebody who has the disease,
or when contaminated sewage comes into contact with drinking water.
[Byline: Nick Perry]
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