North Africa Braces Itself For The Black Death

by Earl Morningstarr

Countries in the North African territories, particularly those that share a border with Libya are preparing themselves for a bubonic outbreak.

Libya was first to be hit with cases of the plague, and they have now seen two deaths from the disease. Now Algeria has reported 50 cases of the infection at locations close to the Libyan border. Algerian officials believe Bedouin are crossing the border and bringing the infection with them.

The World Health Organization is trying to play down those accusations, if the plague is being passed from human to human that would mean it had mutated into pneumonic plague and would be much harder to contain. However they do admit that the plague has not infected a human in North Africa for 25 years.

The blame is still being laid on rat fleas, they transfer the infection from rodent to human. But all countries surrounding Libya are taking no chances, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt are all putting their hospitals on high alert. Egypt has closed it’s border with Libya and has completely quarantined Sallum, the port city bordering Libya.

Matters are not helped by the increasing umber of swine flu cases in the region.

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