AFP sends medical teams to fight typhoid outbreak
Agence France-Presse | 11/20/2008 11:51 AM
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The military has mobilized medical teams to help fight an outbreak of typhoid fever that has left more than 100 people hospitalized northeast of Manila, the military said Thursday.
Teams of doctors, nurses and laboratory technicians as well as equipment will be sent to the towns of Real and Infanta in Quezon province to help contain the outbreak, it said.
The Department of Health on Wednesday confirmed that contaminated water from a stream was the main source of the outbreak.
"The Armed Forces of the Philippines is committed to giving its full support to government efforts to address this health situation in Quezon," AFP chief of staff General Alexander Yano said in a statement.
Typhoid is a bacterial disease spread by food or drink contaminated with the faeces or urine of infected people.
