endemic Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/endemic/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 10 Dec 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 endemic Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/endemic/ 32 32 Plague outbreak in Madagascar has been contained https://jjcornish.com/2017/12/plague-outbreak-madagascar-contained/ Sun, 10 Dec 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/12/plague-outbreak-madagascar-contained/ Madagascar’s Ministry of Heath says thanks to the  concerted national and international response the current and unprecedented outbreak of plague which started on 1 August 2017, has been contained. However, because plague is endemic in Madagascar and its season lasts from September to April, more cases of bubonic and sporadic pneumonic plague are expected to […]

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]]> Madagascar’s Ministry of Heath says thanks to the  concerted national and international response the current and unprecedented outbreak of plague which started on 1 August 2017, has been contained.

However, because plague is endemic in Madagascar and its season lasts from September to April, more cases of bubonic and sporadic pneumonic plague are expected to be reported in the first four months of next year.

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The World Health Organisation and other stakeholders will continue to support the Ministry of Health of Madagascar to maintain vigilance and to rapidly detect and step in to fight new plague cases as they emerge.

Between the start of  August and the end of November 2017, a total of 2 417 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of plague, killed  209 people in  57 of Madagascar’s 114 districts.

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