TYPHOID is, apparently, no stranger to Malaysia. The current spate in and around Kuala Lumpur is but the latest. In early 2012, an outbreak in Kelantan claimed two lives and more than 200 people were hospitalised. Always quickly controlled, outbreaks in this country have not reached epidemic proportions in recent years, but it remains an embarrassment that a country aspiring to reach fully-developed-nation status in five years should still suffer from an illness unequivocally related to low standards of public hygiene. This simply means that no matter how high ones standard of personal hygiene may be, in public space, one is subjected to the same health risks because the environment, like dirty eating places, is unsafe.
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