A mother with her children who had typhoid fever recuperate in their makeshift beds along the corridors of the Jose P. Rizal medical center, a government hospital in Calamba city, Laguna province, south of Manila, March 6, 2008. More than 1,400 people have displayed typhoid symptoms in less than a month in Calamba city prompting authorities to declare a state of calamity, health officials said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES)