DUSHANBE, August 27, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- “To-date, twelve persons have been diagnosed with typhoid in Khorog, the provincial capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Region (GBAO),” Navrouz Jafarov, an official with of the Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision, told Asia-Plus Monday afternoon.

He claims that the disease in Khorog has allegedly been caused by dirty water.  “The test has established that typhoid bacteria got into water as a result of the water supply system accident,” said Jafarov.  “Currently, specialists from the Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision are providing methodological assistance to local specialists to fully eliminate the typhoid outbreak in Khorog.”

Meanwhile, the Khorog chief sanitary inspector Bodurbek Bodurbekov considers that there are also other suggestions for an outbreak of typhoid in Khorog.

“We do not want to expatiate on them,” the Khorog chief sanitary inspector told Asia-Plus on August 16.  According to him, the real cause of the outbreak will be established after investigation.       

Bodurbekov also noted on August 16 that 20 persons have been hospitalized on suspicion of having contracted and nine typhoid diagnoses have been confirmed, while tests of nine other persons for typhoid have not yet been ready.  “To-date, only two typhoid diagnoses have not been confirmed,” Bodurbekov noted.

The outbreak has promoted the government to send senior specialists from the Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision to the GBAO regional capital.