The Black Death Returns

Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic unless it slows the spread of the disease, experts have warned. The Red Cross and Pasteur Institute say inmates in the island’s rat-infested jails are particularly at risk. …Madagascar had 256 plague cases and 60 deaths last year, the world’s highest recorded number. Bubonic plague, known as the Black [...]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-black-death-returns-2/