Kudat health officials confirm typhoid outbreak


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 24 Feb 2019

KUDAT: The Kudat health office has declared a typhoid fever outbreak in the district after five people were confirmed to have contracted the disease.

A circular from the district Health Department that has gone viral on social media said the cases were confirmed as typhoid by Hospital Queen Elizabeth's pathology department in Kota Kinabalu on Thursday (Feb 21).

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