THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) is looking into a suspected typhoid case in Tuburan, northern Cebu yesterday afternoon.
Dr. Cynthia Genosolango, PHO head said they received reports from the municipal health officer of the town that there were five persons confined in the Tuburan District Hospital due to diarrhea.
The five suspected typhoid patients are from barangay Kabangkalan, Tuburan, Cebu.
Genosolango told Cebu Daily News that their team already went to barangay Kabangkalan to check other suspected victims of typhoid and obtain water samples from the school’s and community’s sources of water.
She said the first victim of diarrhea tested positive of amoeba according to the Rural Sanitation Inspector.
Genosolango said they consider the case in Tuburan as a new typhoid fever case since the town was hit by a typhoid case March last year.