16 Podolsk residents diagnosed with typhoid fever
MOSCOW. Dec 10 (Interfax) - Sixteen residents of Podolsk, Moscow region, have been diagnosed with typhoid fever, a source from the regional medical community told Interfax.
Another patient tested positive on Tuesday morning, and the overall number typhoid fever patients grew to 16, he said.
The Moscow region health ministry's press service told Interfax on Monday that 309 people had been placed under medical surveillance in Podolsk in connection with the typhoid fever outbreak.
The outbreak began on November 29 when seven tenants of a Podolsk dormitory were taken to a hospital with a typhoid fever diagnosis. All of them had the origins in the Voronezh region.
The Moscow region health minister said that the dormitory had about 200 tenants subjected to regular medical checkups. She added that those who had come into contact with the patients had been inoculated.
The Moscow region has not had a single typhoid fever case for years and the infection might have been imported from outside the region.