{"id":27167,"date":"2017-10-23T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27167"},"modified":"2017-10-23T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:37:07","slug":"madagascar-hospitals-on-high-alert-no-one-is-safe-from-the-black-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27167","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar Hospitals On High Alert: \u2018No One Is Safe\u2019 From The Black Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madagascar Hospitals On High Alert: \u2018No One Is Safe\u2019 From The Black Plague<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Travelers are being warned to keep their distance from areas of Madagascar affected by the bubonic plague. As the outbreak worsens, some doctors are even warning that \u201cno one is safe\u201d from the disease.<\/p>\n

The outbreak of the\u00a0black plague in Madagascar<\/a> has so far killed 97 people, and doctors are warning that it will be continuing to spread and worsen, meaning no one is safe.<\/a>\u00a0Health officials say the disease, which contributed to the deaths of more than 50 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages<\/a>, has spread from rural areas to\u00a0the more urban areas not usually affected. Hundreds of cases are reported on the tropical island every year, but experts are warning the epidemic is \u201cmuch more dangerous\u201d than in previous years.<\/p>\n

Officials have reported infections in 17 of the island nation\u2019s 22 regions since the outbreak started in August. And the number of cases is growing by the day, said Elhadj As Sy, the secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as the nation put all hospitals on high alert.<\/a>\u00a0The hospitals have also begun implementing\u00a0preventative measures with attempts to stall the spread of the bacterial infection.<\/p>\n

The IFRC said it\u2019s introducing the same \u201csafe and dignified\u201d burial methods used in West Africa during the 2014 Ebola epidemic.<\/a> This helps cut the chain of transmission by preventing further infections through direct contact with infected corpses.<\/p>\n

Last week, less than 60 people had died and around 600 had been infected. Now, there are 911 confirmed cases in addition to the almost 100 deaths. While cases of bubonic plague occur in Madagascar<\/a> nearly every year, the much more dangerous and deadly pneumonic plague<\/a> has never been so prevalent.<\/p>\n

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Madagascar Hospitals On High Alert: \u2018No One Is Safe\u2019 From The Black Plague Travelers are being warned to keep their distance from areas of Madagascar affected by the bubonic plague. As the outbreak worsens, some doctors are even warning that \u201cno one is safe\u201d from the disease. The outbreak of the\u00a0black plague in Madagascar has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8889,8735,1345,3173,6490],"class_list":["post-27167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-black-plague","tag-bubonic-plague","tag-madagascar","tag-middle-ages","tag-shtfplan-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27168,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167\/revisions\/27168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}