Madagascar bubonic plague warning

WIZE · 10-10-2013 8:50am #1

Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic unless it slows the spread of the disease, experts have warned.

The Red Cross and Pasteur Institute say inmates in the island's dirty, crowded jails are particularly at risk.

The number of cases rises each October as hot humid weather attracts fleas, which transmit the disease from rats and other animals to humans.

Madagascar had 256 plague cases and 60 deaths last year, the world's highest recorded number.

Bubonic plague, known as the Black Death when it killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages, is now rare.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24461474

Success :pac:

Time to shut down Ports and Airports

Mark Twain · 10-10-2013 8:59am

After many hours of playing Plague Inc on my phone, I realised the most effective way that the ButtRot virus could wipe out humanity completely was to have it start in Madagascar.

bizmark · 10-10-2013 9:00am

I think the black death is relatively easy to treat these days

gobnaitolunacy · 10-10-2013 9:02am

And I thought it was a nice place, populated by cute partying lemurs.

10-10-2013 9:04am

Anyone that has played Pandemic is probably laughing to themselves right about now.

kneemos · 10-10-2013 9:06am

bizmark wrote: »

I think the black death is relatively easy to treat these days

Aunty Biotics will sort that out for ya.

danniemcq · 10-10-2013 9:22am

Mark Twain wrote: »

After many hours of playing Plague Inc on my phone, I realised the most effective way that the ButtRot virus could wipe out humanity completely was to have it start in Madagascar.

Canada, I hate Canada.

birds and mosquitos sort out Madagascar easy enough but those Canadians and their healthcare system....

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-10-2013 9:26am

and so it begins

10-10-2013 9:29am

Between the ButtRot, Plague, and the Spanish Flu do we really stand a chance of lasting much longer?

SpaceTime · 10-10-2013 9:29am

It's a very serious disease, but it's definitely now 100% curable with antibiotics.
The worry would be any kind of a spread of an antibiotic resistant variant of it.

Jonny7 · 10-10-2013 9:31am

Have an acquaintance heading that way soon, happily sent them the good news

BeerWolf · 10-10-2013 9:34am

And it'll be spread to the West by Penguins, a Zebra, a Lion, a Hippo, and a Giraffe...! :eek:

Capt'n Midnight · 23-11-2014 11:06pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30152979

An outbreak of plague in Madagascar has killed 40 people and infected almost 80 others, the World Health Organization has said.

The WHO warned of the danger of a "rapid spread" of the disease in the capital, Antananarivo.

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2% of the cases in Madagascar are the more dangerous pneumonic form of the disease, which can be spread person-to-person by coughing.

Madagascar bubonic plague warning

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