Bubonic plague outbreak kills 32 in Madagascar

Bubonic plague bacteria. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Eighty-four suspected cases of disease reported in five districts in past month

(SOURCE)  Bubonic plague, which wiped out a third of Europe’s population in the middle ages, has reared its ugly head in the African island state of Madagascar where 32 people have died in a fresh outbreak, according to health authorities.

Some 84 suspected cases of bubonic plague – 60 of them thought to be pneumonic or pulmonary plague, a more virulent strain of the disease – have been reported in five of the island’s 112 districts in the past month.

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