Via L'Express de Madagascar, a November 18 report: Andranomena – A student contracts bubonic plague. The edited Google translation:
It's news that is sends shivers down the spine. A student from a public primary school (EPP) in Andranomena Antananarivo-city reportedly has bubonic plague. The Ministry of National Education published the information on its Facebook page yesterday, around 22 hours. "The health staff confirmed the disease. He is already under treatment in a hospital, "said the ministry.
A disinfection and disinfestation operation was to be organized at this facility today. People who have been in contact with the patient will also have to do chemo contact prophylaxis, to prevent the spread of the disease. If all these procedures are followed, the plague should not affect other students or school staff. Moreover, each school, private and public, has a device, like an isolation room, and can monitor of the state of health of each pupil, making it possible to detect a probable case of plague at the school level.
This is the latest new case notified to Antananarivo after a few days of silence about the plague epidemic. There are twelve patients being treated in the hospitals of the Big Island. Six of them are in Antananarivo, three in the Upper Matsiatra region, one in the Bongolava region and one in Itasy. A significant fact of the last plague situation, too, is the existence of a patient in the region of Atsimo-Andrefana.
