Plague — Worldwide/Unknown
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.
The number of cases rises each October as hot humid weather attracts [promotes breeding of] fleas, which transmit the disease from rats and other animals to humans. Madagascar had 256 plague cases and 60 deaths in 2012, the world’s highest recorded number [since the Black
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