Dengue and Typhoid in Suva
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From Our Own Correspondent
. Suva, Dec. 19.
DENGUE FEVER is threatening to as sume epidemic proportions in the Suva area. The Health Department, m collaboration with the Suva Town Council, has launched an all-out cam paign to clean up mosquito breeding places throughout the Suva Peninsula.
There have also been a few cases of a form of typhoid which starts with symp toms very similar to those of a type of gastric influenza. At least one of the typhoid cases has been fatal. Up to the time of death there was nothing to in dicate that the patient was not suffer ing from gastric influenza, and the true nature of the illness was discovered only when a post-mortem examination was made.
A f ew cases of typhoid occurred earlier this year, when warnings were issued a £ a £L st , eatin § of mussels and similar shellfish gathered anywhere near the town area.
More disturbing has been an official statement that Suva’s water supply, par ticularly after heavy rain, sometimes gives alarming results in tests.