There has been a typhoid and malaria outbreak reported at the Magarima High School in Southern Highlands province. This was due to students using contaminated water from a nearby creek for drinking, cooking and washing, causing many students to contract typhoid and other water-borne diseases. John Maiben, a teacher of the school told The National that 10 students affected with typhoid are now under treatment. The highschool has around 400 boarding students. Mr. Maiben said the students used a nearby creek as water tanks because at the school their water tanks were too old and rusting away so could not hold rainwater, and that’s how the disease spread.
