A 15 year-old girl on Tonga main island of Tongatapu has been diagnosed to have a typhoid infection.
The case is in the village of Vaini from where several people were hospitalised with typhoid a year ago.
Radio Tonga reports the town officer saying the villagers have been told that public gatherings or feasts in the village have been prohibited for a month.
Meantime the boarding school located in Vaini - Beulah College - has sent its students home until the prohibition is lifted.
