Monday, October 16, 2017

The Plague is still with us

an outbreak of plague in Madagascar : LATimes.

from occassional cases in the countryside, it has spread to the city.

ecause a man with the pulmonary form rode in a bus.

and you may not be safe:

The biggest problem for authorities trying to control the outbreak is that it took two weeks after the first case to detect it, and that most cases — 277 so far — have been a particularly virulent form of the disease.
Madagascar, an island off Africa’s east coast, is the country most seriously affected by plague, but others, including the United States, Russia, China, Peru, Bolivia and several African nations, regularly report cases.
By Monday, 387 cases had been reported, including 167 in the densely populated capital.
related item:


 Podcast on the Plague in ancient history

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