Plague -- Madagascar
Madagascar is experiencing a large outbreak of plague affecting major cities and other non-endemic areas since August 2017. Between 1 Aug 2017 and 15 Oct 2017, a total of 849 cases (suspected, probable, and confirmed) including 67 deaths (case fatality rate 7.9 percent) have been reported from 37 (32.5 percent) out of 114 districts in the country. Of these, 568 cases (67 percent) were clinically classified as pneumonic plague, 155 (18.3 percent) were bubonic plague, one case was septicemic
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