{"id":67437,"date":"2014-11-22T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T09:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=67437"},"modified":"2014-11-22T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T09:59:07","slug":"madagascar-plague-outbreak-kills-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/11\/madagascar-plague-outbreak-kills-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar plague outbreak kills 40 – WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"
An outbreak of plague in Madagascar has killed 40 people and infected almost 80 others, the World Health Organization has said.<\/p>\n
The WHO warned of the danger of a “rapid spread” of the disease in the capital, Antananarivo.<\/p>\n
The situation is worsened by high levels of resistance among fleas to a leading insecticide, the WHO added.<\/p>\n
Humans usually develop the bubonic form of the plague after being bitten by an infected flea carried by rodents.<\/p>\n
If diagnosed early, bubonic plague can be treated with antibiotics.<\/p>\n
But 2% of the cases in Madagascar are the more dangerous pneumonic form of the disease, which can be spread person-to-person by coughing.<\/p>\n
The first known case in the outbreak was a man in Soamahatamana village in the district of Tsiroanomandidy, about 200km west of Antananarivo, at the end of August.<\/p>\n
There have been two confirmed cases in the capital, including one death.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
A task force has been activated to manage the outbreak.<\/p>\n
Last year health experts warned that the island was facing a plague epidemic unless it slowed the spread of the disease. It said that inmates in Madagascar’s rat-infested jails were particularly at risk.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An outbreak of plague in Madagascar has killed 40 people and infected almost 80 others, the World Health Organization has said. The WHO warned of the danger of a “rapid spread” of the disease in the capital, Antananarivo. The situation is worsened by high levels of resistance among fleas to a leading insecticide, the WHO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":67439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[14],"yoast_head":"\n