Health alert: Doctors and nurses from Madagascar’s Health Ministry and officers of the Malagasy Red Cross staff at a healthcare checkpoint at the ‘taxi-brousse’ station of Ampasapito district in Antananarivo on Oct 5, with the mission of informing passengers leaving Antananarivo, and to potentially detect cases suspected of plague. — AFP
PETALING JAYA: The bubonic plague is also known as the Black Death and with good reason: it has ravaged populations since the Middle Ages.
In modern times, it is treatable with common antibiotics, said Sungai Buloh Hospital Infectious Disease head Datuk Dr Christopher Lee.
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