Notes from the Field: Typhoid Fever Outbreak --- Harare, Zimbabwe, October 2017--February 2018

Published on January 17, 2019

On October 16, 2017, after identifying a suspected typhoid fever case in a resident of Mbare suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe, the city health department investigated further and, as of February 24, 2018, had identified a total of 3,187 suspected cases.

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