The Story of the Plague in Madagascar

Since 1965, there have been over 460 cases of plague in the US with 16% of those infected dying. The current plague outbreak in Madagascar begins on August 23, 2017. 31 people who came into contact with this individual case, either directly or indirectly through like shared taxi contacts or contacts with the funeral people, became ill and four of them died. There had been an additional 53 cases of the bubonic plague and seven deaths elsewhere in the country.