Health Alerts

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Watch - Level 1 Travel alert on the Practice Usual Precautions warning for Madagascar on the 30th of November, as the countries measles outbreak reaches 3239 cases. This CDC travel alert means visitors to Madagascar should ensure they are vaccinated against measles with the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. This measles outbreak started in the capital city, Antananarivo, on October 4, 2018, when 3 measles cases were confirmed at the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar.   As of November 18th, a total of 3,239 measles cases have been reported, of which 182 were confirmed immunoglobulin M positive, and 3,057 were epidemiologically linked. Read More