Plague warning issued for 9 countries
Plague warnings have been issued for nine countries after the recent plague outbreak in Madagascar.
The death toll has reached 124 and there are currently over 1,000 people who are still infected according to the nation's disaster risk management office.
The concern is that the deadly plague will move further throughout the region due to regular flights coming in and out of the country.
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University of Texas professor, Dr. Ashok Chopra, told The Sun: "If they are traveling shorter distances and they're still in the incubation period, and they have the pneumonic form, then they could spread it to other places.”
Most of the past plague cases have been bubonic plague, but he says this outbreak is 70 percent pneumonic, the most deadly form of the disease.
Known as the Black Death, it notoriously killed a third of Europe’s population in the 13th and 14th centuries.
The head of emergency operations for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says that the outbreak may be stabilizing.
