While Auckland deals with an outbreak of typhoid, Bay of Plenty health officials are reassuring the public that there are no cases here.

A typhoid outbreak in Auckland has been linked to a Pacific church community, with 11 cases now confirmed.

Auckland Regional Public Health Service is following up with 60 contacts of the church group and treating the outbreak as a localised one.

Clinical director Julia Peters says it's still a serious situation and other connections needed to be followed up.

'This is a local outbreak and at this stage we do not know how or when it got into Auckland.”

The people who have been hospitalised are part of Auckland's Pacific Island community.

Auckland gets around 30 cases of typhoid a year but they are usually individual cases where someone has been infected overseas, says Stuff.

Back in the Bay, Toi Te Ora – Public Health Service Medical Officer of Health, Dr Neil de Wet, says they can 'confirm that there have been no recent cases of Typhoid in the Bay of Plenty”.

Typhoid symptoms include a high fever developing over several days, headaches, general weakness and muscle aches. Stomach pain and constipation are also common, but some people get diarrhoea.

The last major outbreak was in 2013 but in general there were about 20 to 30 cases a year.

Good basic hand-washing is one of the best means of protecting yourself.