{"id":28087,"date":"2017-11-17T07:37:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28087"},"modified":"2017-11-17T07:37:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:37:26","slug":"madagascar-outbreak-it-is-inevitable-the-plague-becomes-resistant-to-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28087","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar Outbreak: It Is \u2018Inevitable\u2019 The Plague Becomes Resistant To Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madagascar Outbreak: It Is \u2018Inevitable\u2019 The Plague Becomes Resistant To Drugs<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The newest warning about the outbreak of the airborne pneumonic plague, or black death, in Madagascar has been released. Officials warn that it\u2019s inevitable that this bacterial infection that\u2019s infected over 2000 people will become resistant to antibiotics.<\/p>\n

The only way to treat a person who has contracted the plague is with antibiotics. But experts now warn that because they are being used so much to treat the infection, antibiotics resistance\u00a0is inevitable and making this disease much more terrifying. Once the bacteria is resistant, the Madagascar healthcare system will be overwhelmed, and the disease will have control of the nation.<\/p>\n

According to the Daily Mail<\/em>,<\/a> Madagascar\u2019s healthcare system will be unable to cope if the deadly plague outbreak continues to escalate, a scientist has warned. Scores of doctors and nurses have been struck down with the disease, which is predicted to gather momentum in the coming weeks and there are growing fears hospitals will be unable to meet the illness\u2019 burden.<\/a>\u00a0Official figures reveal at least 2,034 people have been infected with the\u00a0\u201cmedieval disease\u201d <\/a>so far in what has been described as the \u201cworst outbreak in 50 years.\u201d The black death outbreak has so far claimed at least 165 lives.<\/a><\/p>\n

Although the plague is responding well<\/a>\u00a0to antibiotics right now,\u00a0drug resistance<\/a> is also an increasing concern amongst experts who predict it will vastly accelerate the disease\u2019s death toll. Professor John Joe McFadden from the University of Surrey told MailOnline<\/em><\/a>: \u201cFortunately in [the] plague, it has not developed much antibiotic resistance. If that kicks in, the plague will be far, far scarier. If you throw more and more antibiotics at patients, antibiotic resistance is more\u00a0or less inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Madagascar Outbreak: It Is \u2018Inevitable\u2019 The Plague Becomes Resistant To Drugs The newest warning about the outbreak of the airborne pneumonic plague, or black death, in Madagascar has been released. Officials warn that it\u2019s inevitable that this bacterial infection that\u2019s infected over 2000 people will become resistant to antibiotics. The only way to treat a […]<\/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":[12805,17079,1345,1346,1434],"class_list":["post-28087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-antibiotics","tag-bacterial-infection","tag-madagascar","tag-plague","tag-pneumonic-plague"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28087","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=28087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28088,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28087\/revisions\/28088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}