Epidemic of plague amidst COVID-19 in Madagascar: efforts, challenges, and recommendations

Abdullahi Tunde Aborode; Ana Carla Dos Santos Costa; Anmol Mohan; Samarth Goyal; Aishat Temitope Rabiu; Christos Tsagkaris; Olivier Uwishema; Oumaima Outani; Shoaib Ahmad; Mohammad Yasir Essar

doi:10.1186/s41182-021-00349-5

Epidemic of plague amidst COVID-19 in Madagascar: efforts, challenges, and recommendations

Trop Med Health. 2021 Jul 13;49(1):56. doi: 10.1186/s41182-021-00349-5.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Healthy Africans Platform, Research and Development, Ibadan, Nigeria.
² Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
³ Karachi Medical & Dental College, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁴ KMC Manipal, Manipal, India.
⁵ Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Kwara State University, Malete, Nigeria.
⁶ University of Crete, Faculty of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece.
⁷ Oli Health Magazine Organization, Research and Education, Kigali, Rwanda. uwolivier1@ktu.edu.tr.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, 61080, Trabzon, Turkey. uwolivier1@ktu.edu.tr.
⁹ Clinton Global Initiative University, New York, USA. uwolivier1@ktu.edu.tr.
¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Mohamed 5 University, Rabat, Morocco.
¹¹ District Head Quarters Teaching Hospital, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
¹² Kabul University of Medical Sciences, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Abstract

The plague has been wreaking havoc on people in Madagascar with the COVID-19 pandemic. Madagascar's healthcare sector is striving to respond to COVID-19 in the face of a plague outbreak that has created a new strain on the country's public health system. The goal and activities of the gradual epidemic of plague in Madagascar during COVID-19 are described in this research. In order to contain the plague and the COVID-19 pandemic in this country, we have suggested long-term recommendations that can help to contain the outbreak so that it may spread to non-endemic areas.

Keywords: COVID-19; Epidemic; Madagascar; Pandemic; Plague; Slow.

Publication types

Letter