At least five Israelis who returned from Nepal are hospitalized in Tel Hashomer Hospital and Shaare Zedek Medical Center with typhus, all having eaten meals in one of two Chabad houses in the area.
Health officials in Eretz Yisrael on Sunday morning explained that have not yet reached Chabad officials in Nepal due to the yomtov, adding it is possible that a local worker employed in one of the kitchens is responsible for the spread of the illness by not maintaining proper hygienic conditions.
There are reports of a number of Israelis hospitalized in Thailand and the number of cases is expected to increase. Medical officials are calling on Israelis who visited the Chabad centers in Nepal in recent weeks, and have experienced fever, to come to Tel Hashomer Hospital for testing to rule out typhus.
While doctors report that intravenous antibiotic therapy usually is all that is needed, left untreated, the illness can lead to death.
UPDATE: Israeli health officials on Sunday afternoon confirmed another case, an Israeli female in her 30s who returned from Nepal, diagnosed with the illness. She has been admitted to Poriah Hospital in Tiveria, listed in stable condition. She reports she only ate in a Chabad house in Nepal.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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This report is nonsense. The Pokhara Chabad House kitchen is cleaner than any restaurant in that city. It served thousands of meals over the course of Tishri; if there was a typhus carrier working in the kitchen, hundreds of people would be sick, not just five or six. And the claim that the sick tourists ate nowhere else is clearly false. They arrived in Pokhara before the Chabad House opened for the Tishri season, and they spent three weeks touring outside Pokhara – where did they eat then?
This does not make sense. According to the Nepal Shliach 1000s of people ate at the katmandu chabad house recently. If the typhus originates from the Chabad house, 100s more would be infected.
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You HAD to put a picture of the Lubavitcher Rebbe as representing the article? where does he come in? what does one thing have to with the other may I ask? No shaychis whatsoever