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Black Death / Bubonic Plague outbreak in Madagascar - 20 dead

 
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Black Death / Bubonic Plague outbreak in Madagascar - 20 dead
"A village in Madagascar has been hit by a deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague, medical experts on the island have confirmed.

Test were carried out after at least 20 people in the village, near the north-western town of Mandritsara, were reported to have died last week.

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned in October that Madagascar was at risk of a plague epidemic.

The disease is transmitted to humans via fleas, usually from rats.

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

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Re: Black Death / Bubonic Plague outbreak in Madagascar - 20 dead
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The Black Death was NOT bubonic plague.


Different symptoms, different transmission, different fatality rates.
Page Ala Cearl

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12/10/2013 05:12 PM
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Re: Black Death / Bubonic Plague outbreak in Madagascar - 20 dead
Yea bad back then doom but now there is Gentamycin and
Streptomycin - antibiotics

Last Edited by Page Ala Cearl on 12/10/2013 05:12 PM
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Re: Black Death / Bubonic Plague outbreak in Madagascar - 20 dead
Yea bad back then doom but now there is Gentamycin and
Streptomycin - antibiotics
 Quoting: Page Ala Cearl


Didn't we have some theory that a comet would come every 333 years and there'd be a plague? Just thought it was a funny coincidence





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