Typhoid Victims Plan to Sue South African Government

A group of typhoid victims are planning to bring a group-action lawsuit against the South African government for what they call, "ineptitude and negligence" when dealing with the recent outbreak of typhoid. Salmonella typhii, the bacteria that causes typhoid was recently found in one of the housing developments in Delmas, South Africa. This bacteria is carried in human waste, causing the victims of this disease to speak out against government handling of the housing situation in the infected area. While the government claims that only four have died from this disease, local civic groups, hospitol staff, and even the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), claim that the death toll is over fifty. Local cemetary officials were initailly willing to help in the investigation by coming up with statistics and numbers of burials, as well as possible causes for the deaths. Now, however, noone from the cemetary will consent to talk to the press after an apparant gag order.
Last Thursday, the number of officially confirmed typhoid cases stood at 572, while the number of people treated for severe diarrhoea was at 3,221 cases.