Madagascar 🇲🇬 plague: WHO delivers huge release of antibiotics 💊

More than a million doses of antibiotics have been delivered by the World Health Organization to fight an outbreak of plague in Madagascar which killed at least 33 people.

The authorities have also banned prison visits in the two worst affected areas to prevent the spread of the disease.

The health ministry says the latest bout of plague has infected about 230 people - in addition to those who have died - in just two months.

A specialised hospital in the capital Antananarivo is struggling to cope with the influx of ill people, local media reported, with long queues outside for face masks and medicine.

This year urban areas have been affected, a development that has worried aid agencies in a country not renowned for a robust healthcare system.

UCJ, UNILORIN.