The germs that cause Typhoid are invisible.  They can be carried on your hands without your knowing it.

Always wash your hands:

• After you use the toilet or latrine;
• After washing your children;
• Before you prepare or serve food;
• Before you eat or feed your children.

What is the best way to wash your hands?

• Always use soap;
• Use plenty of clean water;
• Wash your parts of your hands front, back, between the fingers and the nails.

Keep yourself clean - wash your hands

Typhoid bacteria live in faeces.  Even a person who is healthy might have Typhoid in faeces.

• Always use a toilet or latrine. If you do not have one - build one
• Keep the toilet or latrine clean
• Dispose of babies' faeces in the toilet or latrine (or bury them)
• Wash your hands with soap and clean water after using the toilet or latrine

Keep yourself clean - use a toilet or latrine

Environmental Health Practitioners are required to investigate all Typhoid cases:

• By taking a sample of suspected sources of water, food and blood to the Laboratory for analysis
• Tracing contacts by taking urine and stool to the Laboratory for analysis
• Motivate communities to use toilets;
• Health education of communities;
• Organize temporary water purification and sanitation facilities until longer term measures can be implemented;
• Ensure that you take the necessary precautionary measures against shellfish taken from sewage contaminated beds, vegetables fertilized by night soil and eaten raw and contaminated milk and milk products. Remember polluted water is the most common source of Typhoid.