The municipal of Cape Town has clarified the situation around the city’s typhoid fever outbreak. The outbreak is not linked to the city’s tap water, according to the municipality. This comes after neighborhood groups began receiving WhatsApp messages urging residents not to drink municipally supplied water. According to the municipality of Cape Town, ‘typhoid tap water’ is not real. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) issued a warning on February 16 that enteric fever, a new name for an ancient plague known as typhoid fever, is on the rise in South Africa. The outbreaks, ac…