Madagascar -2013 Plague outbreak

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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Madagascar: Plague in Madagascar
20 December 2013

Antandrohomby ? The bubonic plague season arrived in Madagascar earlier than usual in 2013, and with it an apparently greater prevalence of a more deadly strain of the disease.

Between September and December the health ministry reported 42 known deaths and 84 cases from the illness in four of the country's 112 districts.

The cases have been recorded at various geographical locations: Mandritsara in the north, Soanierana Ivongo in the northwest, Ikongo in the southwest, and Tsiroanomandidy in the central highlands...

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Ambohimangakely - Negative test on a case of pneumonic plague

10/02/2014 | 8:11 News

Relief for the residents of the rural town of Ambohimangakely . " The young man who died last month was not infected with the plague . The first test indicated he died of pneumonic plague . That performed by the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar , has shown otherwise "indicated Naina Andrianarison , Mayor of the municipality of Ambohimangakely yesterday. The death of the young man and put in boiling the inhabitants of this town and the municipal health office ( BMH ) of the urban district of Antananarivo (AUC) . An armada of BMH moved to Ambohimangakely to control the situation . The problem of waste management has made the city vulnerable against this epidemic . " Each service has its responsibility to the AUC . We can not carry out the fight against fleas, the main vectors of the epidemic, if the garbage is not removed , "said a source from the BMH .

Last year, the plague was seventy-five deaths in the three hundred and nineteen cases reported , according to the latest official statistics of the Ministry of Public Health. This heavy toll is due mainly to the pneumonic plague .

" The young man died following a complication of lung disease , but not pneumonic plague " hammered Naina Andrianarison .

Vonjy Radasimalala
L'Express de Madagascar

http://www.lexpressmada.com/blog/actualites/ambohimangakely-test-negatif-sur-un-cas-de-peste-pulmonaire-4291

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Source: http://www.vice.com/read/the-hot-zone-0000414-v21n8

The Hot Zone: Black Death Returns to Madagascar
By Benjamin Shapiro Aug 7 2014

I sat in a helicopter as it banked around and down toward a clearing in the center of Beranimbo, a village of 80 or so palm-thatched huts tucked away in the emerald mountains of Madagascar?s Northern Highlands. My pilot, a blocky German expat named Gerd, had already made one attempt to touch down the shaky single-engine copter, but he?d aborted the landing after the rotor blades kicked up enough dust to cause a brownout.

A few hours earlier, when we?d set out for Beranimbo?a three-hour journey from the Malagasy capital of Antananarivo?Gerd had seemed excited. He doesn?t normally get jobs like this, typically making his money flying film crews around the countryside to shoot B-roll for ecotourism documentaries, usually about lemurs. ?You want me to do a pass?? he asked, and before I could find out what he meant, we were swooping low through the hills. My stomach lurched upward; from this altitude we could see the spiny forest vegetation, tall ravenala trees, and great gaping wounds in the countryside, scars of systematic deforestation.

We were there because, in the fall of 2013, Beranimbo had been an epicenter of a black plague outbreak that resulted in nearly 600 cases and more than 90 deaths across the country. Madagascar reports the most instances of the disease in the world. Depending on which century you?re talking about, it?s perhaps best known as the plague?a scourge generally associated with the Middle Ages, when rats, fleas, and poor hygiene resulted in the deaths of between 75 and 200 million people. The disease remains an enduring threat in third-world nations; public-health watchdogs report up to 2,000 cases a year...