As plague cases rose last week in Madagascar’s capital, many city dwellers panicked. The plague outbreak has killed 63 people in the Indian Ocean island nation. Madagascar has about 400 plague cases per year, or more than half of the world’s total, according to a 2016 World Health Organization report. A 34-year-old man in another Indian Ocean island nation, the Seychelles, contracted the pneumonic plague while in Madagascar. It was the first-ever plague case in the Seychelles, said the country’s public health commissioner, Dr. Jude Gedeon.

Source: Egypt Independent October 16, 2017 11:15 UTC