A patient infected with the plague receives treatment at the plague triage and treatment centre in Toamasina, Madagascar.

Madagascar

From October to December 2017, MSF supported Madagascar’s Ministry of Health to tackle an outbreak of pneumonic plague.

Although plague is endemic in Madagascar, the 2017 outbreak was exceptional in that it was of the deadlier pneumonic form, which...

Read full article in the International Activity Report 2017

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