ALERT: Bubonic Plague Outbreak in Madagascar

First Ebola, now Black Death doom....

Over 40 people have already died in a plague outbreak on Madagascar and the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a “rapid” spread of the bacterial disease carried by rats in the capital Antananarivo.

The death toll of the bubonic plague outbreak in Madagascar has risen to 47, Secretary-General of the Health Ministry of the island state Philemon Tafangy said on Tuesday, while the number of suspected plague cases reached 138.

The WHO said it is working with its partners – including the Red Cross, the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar, and the Commune urbaine d’ Antananarivo – and the Madagascan government to try to control the outbreak.

Measures such as protective equipment, insecticides, spray materials, and antibiotics have been “thoroughly implemented in the affected districts,” according to the organization.

But “the situation is further complicated by the high level of resistance to deltamethrin, an insecticide used to control fleas, that has been observed in the country.”

[link to rt.com]