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29th November 2017 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially reported the plague outbreak in Madagascar to be contained in an update dated 27th November 2017. The 27th November [...]

31st October 2017 – The Plague outbreak in Madagascar persists but is reported to be slowing down. The capital Antananarivo is the most affected area with predominantly pneumonic type. All [...]

31st October 2017 – The island of Reunion has been registering an increase in influenza activity since August 2017. The peak of the epidemic was around mid to late September and has been on [...]

18th October 2017 – The Plague outbreak in Madagascar persists and is expanding into new areas. However, there is now a strong WHO and other partners’ support on the field that is doing [...]

14th October 2017 – The multisectoral IDSR committee met again this morning Saturday to discuss the current alert on the plague. The outbreak in Madagascar is expanding into new districts [...]

13th October 2017 – Suspected Case update The index passenger (probable case) is still admitted on the hospital ward and has no symptoms and is stable. Today  is  the  5thday  of  [...]

5th October 2017 – The Ministry of Health in Madagascar has confirmed that to date they have registered 194 cases of plague with 30 deaths.The flight from Madagascar last night brought in a [...]

4th October 2017 – The plague outbreak in Madagascar continues to propagate. There are several outbreak response interventions going on by WHO, Red Cross and other agencies in country. Red [...]