A large outbreak of typhoid on a ship in the Netherlands has been traced to contaminated water, this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2023, Copenhagen, 15-18 April) will hear.
Contaminated water tanks on an old cruise ship being used as emergency accommodation in the Netherlands caused a large outbreak of typhoid fever in spring 2022, according to a report to be presented at the upcoming European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. An investigatio