WHO: Bubonic Plague Alert Issued for 9 Countries

Medical experts are warning that the worst is yet to come regarding the bubonic plague outbreak in Africa.

Dr Ashok Chopra, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas, told The Sun Online the crisis in Madagascar had yet to peak.

He warned it was possible for the deadly plague to move further into the region given the regular flights going in and out of the country.

Furthermore, if treatment isn’t given right away people will die. If this spreads and becomes a global epidemic there will not be enough medicine to go around.

“If they are travelling shorter distances and they’re still in the incubation period, and they have the pneumonic (form) then they could spread it to other places.

“We don’t want to have a situation where the disease spreads so fast it sort of gets out of control.”

He added: “Most of the cases in the past have been of the bubonic plague but if you look at this particular outbreak, 70 percent of the cases are pneumonic plague, which is the most deadly form of the disease.

“If the treatment is not given in a very short period of time these people will end up dying.”

The plaque doesn’t discriminate against class. You can’t really help catching an airborne disease once it starts spreading throughout a nation.

Over 1,300 people are already infected with this disease and the numbers will only rise.

The Black Death often conjures up chilling images of masked plague doctors, who would stuff fresh herbs and spices in their ‘beaks’ to deal with the smell

That is not a pleasant prospect.

If there were indeed a global order seeking to bring about a one world government and reduce the population, it would be hard to imagine them doing much to stop the spread of a pandemic such as the plaque.

Source: The Sun

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