City of Tshwane intensifying probe into the spike in typhoid cases [SOUND]

# The City of Tshwane says it is intensifying investigations into the source of a rise in typhoid fever cases in Hammanskraal and Bronkhorstspruit. This is amid growing public concern about water safety in the metro. Several cases of typhoid have recently been reported at Jubilee Hospital in Hammanskraal and Bronkhorstspruit Hospital, where 13 patients were treated. The metro’s spokesperson, Lindela Mashigo, says preliminary results of recent drinking water samples taken and tested have not determined an epidemiological link between these cases: