Pneumonic Plague Outbreak, Northern Madagascar, 2011

The AAR: In July 2018, after a pneumonic and bubonic plague epidemic, Madagascar’s Ministry of Health organized an After-Action Review (AAR) of the emergency response,

These strategies include (i) coordination of the response, (ii) enhanced surveillance, (iii) laboratory confirmation, (iv) contact identification and follow-up, (v) case

WHO and Institut Pasteur Madagascar (IPM) continue to support the Epidemic Surveillance Department of the Ministry of Health to conduct data cleaning and analysis of

As of 8 October 2017, WHO and Ministry of Public Health of Madagascar initiated measures at points of entry to avoid international spread of plague.. At the International Airport

In spite of the declining incidence of pneumonic plague and overall reduction in hospitalizations of patients due to plague infection, sustaining ongoing operations, including

These strategies include (i) coordination of the response, (ii) enhanced surveillance, (iii) laboratory confirmation, (iv) contact identification and follow-up, (v)

In spite of the declining incidence of pneumonic plague and overall reduction in hospitalizations of patients due to plague infection, sustaining ongoing operations, including

To process the plague reports, we used the Edinburgh Geoparser [11], a text mining pipeline which has been previously applied to other types of historical text [2].. This tool is