DUMAGUETE CITY, March 27 -- The Provincial Health Office (PHO) in Negros Oriental is strengthening its monitoring as it sees rise in typhoid fever cases over the past three months.

PHO chief Dr. Liland Estacion in a virtual press briefer on Monday said that based on the consolidated weekly report up to March 18, the province has logged a total of 87 cases with zero death.

This, however, is 34 percent higher compared to the same period last year at 54 with one mortality.

The official also sounded the alarm as 10 cases were reported in just one cluster at Sitio Lapnol, Barangay Tanglad in Manjuyod town as of March 24.

Some of them were admitted to the Bais City District Hospital and the Manjuyod Rural Health Unit.

Two patients have bee...