Toamasina Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/toamasina/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 17 Oct 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 Toamasina Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/toamasina/ 32 32 Plague cases in Madagascar more than double in a week https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/plague-cases-madagascar-double-week/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/plague-cases-madagascar-double-week/ The number of plague cases in Madagascar has more than doubled this past week. It’s particularly dangerous because most of the cases are of the airborne pneumonic variety. One case has been confirmed in neighboring Seychelles. Last Tuesday, doctors in Antananarivo were battling 320 cases of the  plague. Today, there are 805 cases and the […]

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]]> The number of plague cases in Madagascar has more than doubled this past week.

It’s particularly dangerous because most of the cases are of the airborne pneumonic variety.

One case has been confirmed in neighboring Seychelles.

Last Tuesday, doctors in Antananarivo were battling 320 cases of the  plague.

Today, there are 805 cases and the death toll is 74.

The World Health  Organization has shipped 1,2 million doses of the antibiotic that cures the plague.

If left untreated, its lethal.

Plague is endemic in Madagascar. But it’s generally of the bubonic kind – spread by rats and fleas.

Pneumonic plague, spread by saliva droplets coughed by victims,  is more  dangerous particularly in crowded living areas like the capital and the large port town of Toamasina.

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