Alarming plague outbreak in Madagascar

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Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/plague-outbr...has-killed-40-people-affected-119-who-1727678


Plague Outbreak Reported in Madagascar Has Killed 40 People, Affected 119: WHO
By Kathleen Caulderwood@kcaulderwoodk.caulderwood@ibtimes.com on November 21 2014 1:41 PM

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 40 people, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

Plague is an infectious, bacterial disease caused by a bacteria known as Yersinia pestis. So far, there have been a total of 119 cases reported. The first patient was first identified on Aug. 31 and died on Sept. 3. So far, there have been cases reported in 16 districts, with two recorded cases and one death in the capital city of Antananarivo.

?There is now a risk of a rapid spread of the disease due to the city?s high population density and the weakness of the healthcare system,? the WHO said in a public statement. ..

 

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Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/11/24/387395/madagascar-plague-toll-rises-to-47/

Madagascar officials raise bubonic plague death toll to 47
Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:50PM GMT

Malagasy officials have raised the death toll from a recent bubonic plague outbreak to 47 as the bacterial disease spreads through the country.

Madagascar?s Health Ministry made the announcement on Monday, and warned that the toll would probably rise over the coming months as it spreads towards the capital Antananarivo.

They added that 138 suspect cases have been recorded since the beginning of the year...

 

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The WHO said that there was a risk of a ?rapid spread? in the Madagascan capital Antananarivo. The risk has been exacerbated by an increased resistance to a widely-used insecticide ? deltamethrin ? among fleas.

Two per cent of the Madagascan cases are in the more dangerous pneumonic form, which can be spread between humans through coughing.
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Cases have been reported in 16 districts in seven regions, with two cases and one death in densely-populated Antananarivo.
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WHO chief warns of 'alarming' plague outbreak in Madagascar

Andrea Janus, CTVNews.ca
Published Monday, January 26, 2015 10:19AM EST

The head of the World Health Organization is warning about an ?alarming? plague outbreak in Madagascar that could worsen, particularly as fleas that transmit the disease to humans have developed immunity to insecticide.

... a plague outbreak in Madagascar that began last November, but is receiving little public attention despite its ?disturbing dimensions.? Of particular concern is the fact that fleas that transmit the disease from rodents to humans have developed resistance to the main insecticide used to control their population.

...the current outbreak has managed to establish a foothold in the capital Antananarivo, and could spread easily through the city?s densely populated slums, Chan warned.

?This is alarming, as around eight per cent of cases progress to the lethal pneumonic form, which transmits directly from person to person,? she said.

A recent tropical storm has exacerbated the threat of the disease spreading from ?untold numbers of rats? that have been displaced by flooding.

Earlier this month, the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) issued a statement to say that the plague epidemic had reached Madagascar?s capital with 10 suspected cases.

?The progress of the plague epidemic becomes increasingly worrying,? the ISID said. By the end of December, there were 224 cases of plague reported on the Big Island, with 58 deaths.
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Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/who-ch...utbreak-in-madagascar-1.2205946#ixzz3PwVCEVHe

 

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Madagascar braces for potential plague epidemic

PUBLISHED: JANUARY 28, 2015 08:03 PM

ANTANANARIVO, Jan 28 ? Madagascar said it?s stepping up efforts to tackle an outbreak of the plague which has killed at least 57 people in the Indian Ocean island nation since August, amid concern that recent floods may spread the disease.

Public Health Minister Lalatiana Andriamanarivo, giving the latest death toll by phone, said that a committee is coordinating the responses of ministries to the disease, without giving further details. The government said that all plague treatment will be free of charge, according to a report by TV Plus, a broadcaster based in the capital, Antananarivo.

Flooding caused by Tropical Storm Chedza has displaced ?tens of thousands of people and untold numbers of rats, raising the risk of more rodent-borne epidemics,? Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organisation, said in Geneva on January 26, according to the body?s website.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/spread-plague-slows-madagascar-death-toll-71-142416558.html


Spread of plague slows in Madagascar, death toll at 71: WHO
Reuters
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The World Health Organization (WHO) logo is pictured at the entrance of its headquarters in Geneva, January ?

GENEVA (Reuters) - An outbreak of plague in Madagascar has slowed but 71 people among the 263 known to have caught the disease since last September have died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Madagascar has suffered an outbreak of plague nearly every year since 1980 and case numbers have increased in the past three years, making it the most severely affected country worldwide...

 

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ITASY - Three people die from pulmonary plague

03.09.2015 | 8:49 News

The plague epidemic continues to wreak havoc. According to a report by the National Police, yesterday, three people have died following a suspected case of plague in the fokontany Ambodifahitra, common Ampahimanga, Arivonimamo district, last week. "These are all people from the same family who have been victims of this plague suspicion. In addition to the three victims, a boy of 5 years, a girl aged 16 and a 34 year-old mother, five others are currently undergoing intensive care at the Ampahimanga basic health center. Initial reports of doctors is pneumonic plague that would have infected these people, "a source has advanced to the Company of the National Gendarmerie Arivonimamo.

A source in the Ministry of Public Health is cautious about this report. "It will not be until the results of analysis performed by the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, before ruling on the cause of death and disease. We are still in front of suspected cases", said the source. But the most surprising in this situation is the late handling . Also, the first fatal case occurred on February 22, according to the report of the National Gendarmerie . The two fatal cases have been recorded only on March 5. If the authorities had thus closely monitored the situation, the other two victims could have been saved as well.

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