Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Synopsis
Pneumonic Plague Outbreak, Northern Madagascar, 2011
Table 2
Contact/relationship | Symptoms | Chemoprophylaxis | Serologic result† | WHO case definition | Village | Characteristic |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1–5, family | None | Yes | – | NA | Ankatakata | Houses A and B |
6, family | None | Yes | – | NA | Antsakoabe | House C, husband of patient 9 |
7, family | None | Yes | – | NA | Antsakoabe | House C, children of patient 9 |
8 and 9, family | None | Yes | – | NA | Antsakoabe | House C |
10, family | None | No | – | NA | Tsaratanana | House D |
11–13, family | None | Yes | – | NA | Ankiganyo | House E |
14, family | None | Yes | + | Presumptive | Ankiganyo | House E, mother of patient 18 |
15 and 16, family | None | Yes | – | NA | Ambarakaraka | House F |
17–24, other | None | Yes | – | NA | Mandrivary | Met with patient 10 |
25, other | Cough | No | + | Presumptive | Mandrivary | Carried patient 3 |
26, other | None | Yes | – | NA | Antafiabe | Shared bed with patient 11 |
27–31, other | None | Yes | – | NA | Antafiabe | Met with patient 11 |
32–34, other | Mild | Yes | – | NA | Several | Attended funerals |
35–41, other | None | Yes | – | NA | Several | Attended funerals |
*Contacts of plague patients were divided into family contacts (persons who lived in the same household with an infected person) and other contacts (persons spent time with a patient or approached a persons who died). WHO, World Health Organization.
†For Yersinia pestis.
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