The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has assured the public there is no need to panic after one person died of typhoid fever, and three others were diagnosed with it. The cases were reportedly from Hillbrow, Yeoville and Edenvale. “There isn’t an outbreak; there were four cases noted in Joburg over two weeks, which prompted an investigation,” NICD deputy director Professor Lucille Blumberg told The Star on Sunday. “Three of the cases had travelled - they were imported typhoid. Only two of them had a link and they were siblings. “Based on that, there is not an outbreak because they have different sources,” she said.