State media reported that North Korea has been facing an "epidemic" of an idiosyncrasy.
The outbreak of the "acute enteric disease" was first reported last week in the South Hwanghae Province, which is roughly 75 miles south of the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang.
The term enteric refers to the gastrointestinal tract, and according to South Korean officials, it could be a case of typhoid.
More than 800 families have been affected by the outbreak and have received aid so far, according to the report.
The South Hwanghae Province has received medicine and other aid materials.
The medical crews were dispatched to the region to sterilize areas and conduct an intensive treatment campaign to cure patients in close collaboration with curative and preventive units.
Positive efforts are being made to build more bicyle wards with better accommodations and treatment conditions.
Medical specialists are looking at over 10 kinds of already developed antiviral medicines.
North Korea has been fighting a wave.
The country said last month that it had found its first case of carbon dioxide.
More than four million people in North Korea have caught a disease since late April, according to an update on Monday by the Korean Central News Agency. The news agency reported that 73 of them have passed away.
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