Ake was transferred over to the infectious diseases department. Zhang Fan already began to prescribe treatment and ordered a quarantine without even waiting for the lab results to come out. Although typhoid fever was an illness that would display itself all over the body, it mostly spread through fecal transmission.
If this had been a Class A infectious disease like cholera or bubonic plague, then the entire area under Chasu City's jurisdiction would have been quarantined. Even though this was only typhoid, a Class B infectious disease, this still had to be reported to the relevant higher-up bureaus.