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> An analysis of plague cases by this website has revealed they have spiraled by nearly 40 per cent in less than week, with figures showing that at least 1,800 are now infected with the 'medieval disease' which has claimed 127 lives. The epidemic could strike a further 20,000 people in just a matter of weeks if current trends continue. Just FYI - this is a *massive* exaggeration and a huge distortion of the numbers. The WHO themselves have said that the large leap in numbers is due to retrospective case updates, i.e. finding cases that weren't initially reported earlier in the outbreak. Numbers are showing cases actually decreasing. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/926188821754114048 The graph itself says everything you need to know. And those are numbers sourced directly from the Institut Pasteur on Madagascar (literally the people responsible for testing and counting these things). The source of the quote above is, I believe, the Daily Mail, which has a massively hyperbolic graph showing an extrapolated growth based on this jump in *retrospective* numbers. At the moment, based on info from the Madagascar ministry of health, they're currently experiencing something like 10 cases per day, a big drop from the 60-70 per day earlier on. So yeah, not the end of the world. Still a big concern though, and certainly not great if someone hops on a plane with it (chances of that decrease as numbers get lower, and more people are treated) but they've managed to bring infected numbers back down, and plague problems are something Madagascar has annually anyway so there's no reason this can't be brought under control. Might be a while yet (and until they sort out health inequalities in Madagascar - maybe never - will always be an underlying concern), but they're on it.