Health Alerts

Reporting of new typhoid infections in the districts of Naitasiri and Namosi (SE Viti Levu) is on the decrease, according to a local news source, after government assistance improved sanitation in the affected areas. The same news report summarised the outbreak: ‘since September 2018 there were 53 reported cases of typhoid fever, 30 confirmed and 15 suspected in Naitasiri while in Namosi there were a total of 22 reported cases, 10 confirmed and 12 suspected typhoid fever cases’.

THE DEATH toll among people infected with leptospirosis infections in Central Division (comprised of the provinces of Naitasiri, Namosi, Rewa, Serua and Tailevu) has risen to four from 98 cases. Read more.