Posted on 10/17/2017 2:22:25 PM PDT by dynachrome
The plague outbreak in Madagascar is continuing to spread at unprecedented rates, with 57 deaths and more than 680 cases.
The latest figures are from October 12. An estimated 329 of these cases, and 25 deaths, were in the capital, Antananarivo. The cases, reported by both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Bureau for Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC) in Madagascar, include probable and suspected cases as well those that have been confirmed by laboratory tests. While the country experiences regular outbreaks, with an estimated 400 cases of plague each year, this time things are very different, experts warn.
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I wonder what our refugee quota is for that place now?
Quick! They should all go to Europe! Merkel said they could...
Madagascar. The riviera of the Indian Ocean.
If Obama were still plaguing the WH, he would bring them here.
Anybody that’s ever played any of the Plague video games is of course horribly jealous this one solved the Madagascar problem so quickly.
People still get the plague in New Mexico and Arizona. Some parts of the world it’s very endemic. Madagascar has always had a problem.
Due to the unique flora and fauna, Madagascar is a place I always wanted to see.
CNN got this from a public health site. It is a minor event that even a primitive African can avoid once they are educated on what an infectious agent can do to them. Plague is endemic in the desert SW of the US and has been for more than a century. The minor outbreak will be used as a plea for more money from the hated West. By comparison, more than 36,000 people die from Flu in the US every year.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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