This'll be interesting.
This'll be interesting. One person with pneumonic plague on an airplane that could have held over 250 people for about 1.5 hours. It doesn't say whether he was symptomatic on the flight. There's an extremely short incubation period for pneumonic plague - 1-3 days post exposure (up to a week, depending on the source you read). At least that suggests it will be known fairly quickly whether anyone else caught it from him.
Seychelles seems to have a very active response, as well. They isolated him and cultured him immediately, with confirmatory cultures sent to Institut Pasteur (I assume the main one in Paris, but they have other locations that may have been much closer). They did contact tracing, they've got some people essentially quarantined for observation, they've got some on prophylactic antibiotics, and they're putting in more isolation units at the main hospital, just in case.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/seychelles-reports-plague-case-linked-madagascar-outbreak-50431993
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/seychelles-reports-plague-case-linked-madagascar-outbreak-50431993
Seychelles seems to have a very active response, as well. They isolated him and cultured him immediately, with confirmatory cultures sent to Institut Pasteur (I assume the main one in Paris, but they have other locations that may have been much closer). They did contact tracing, they've got some people essentially quarantined for observation, they've got some on prophylactic antibiotics, and they're putting in more isolation units at the main hospital, just in case.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/seychelles-reports-plague-case-linked-madagascar-outbreak-50431993
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/seychelles-reports-plague-case-linked-madagascar-outbreak-50431993
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