1) An investigation was conducted into an outbreak of typhoid fever in a remote village in Pakistan where over 300 people were infected and 3 died within a week. 2) Laboratory analysis found Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in all water samples from the village well, which was suspected to be the source of contamination. 3) Clinical samples from 22 patients tested positive for multidrug-resistant Salmonella typhi, confirming it as the cause of the outbreak. The contaminated village well was identified as the source of the outbreak.