Pneumonic Plague Transmission, Moramanga, Madagascar, 2015

Abstract

During a pneumonic plague outbreak in Moramanga, Madagascar, we identified 4 confirmed, 1 presumptive, and 9 suspected plague case-patients. Human-to-human transmission among close contacts was high (reproductive number 1.44) and the case fatality rate was 71%. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the Yersinia pestis isolates belonged to group q3, different from the previous outbreak.

Keywords

• Yersinia pestis
• pneumonic plague
• transmission
• Madagascar
• outbreak
• bubonic plague