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Pneumonic plague, on the other hand, is a much more dangerous infection of the lungs and can be easily spread from person to person via droplets.In 2017, 221 people died from the plague in Madagascar in one of the worst modern epidemics of the disease. Poor waste management and a lack of clean water give diseases rats and fleas the perfect breeding ground in which to spread the plague.

Just six years ago, 71 people died from the plague on the island off the coast of East Africa.The outbreak was of both the bubonic plague and pneumonic plague.Bubonic plague is more common and affects the patient's lymphatic system – a network of tubes and nodes running throughout the body that is part of your immune system. But Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the only countries in the world where polio is endemic. So it's relatively easy to date tuberculosis due to the lesions it leaves on bones. In August 2016, a 12 year-old boy in northern Russia was killed after being infected by Anthrax . Some 70 polio workers have been killed in Pakistan since 2012 and polio cases rose from 198 in 2011 to 306 in 2014.Islamist militants also told Pakistanis that vaccination programmes were a Western plot to sterilise their children.
While suspected cases of polio go as far back as Ancient Egypt, the first clinical description of the disease wasn’t written until 1789.
But it's also thought to be the only vaccine-preventable disease associated with an increase in deaths in the US.There were also 25,891 cases diagnosed in the UK between 2012 and 2018 compared to 6,216 between 2005 and 2011 – a four-fold increase.Although a vaccine is offered to all babies in Britain – where 18 have died from whooping cough since 2012 – it doesn't offer lifelong protection and is now less effective than it was 15 years ago.It's thought that genetic mutations in whooping cough bacteria mean our current vaccine is now outdated.“The pertussis vaccine is not optimal,” Dr William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told "We’re making the best use of the vaccine while we’re frantically doing research to make a better one. Holly Willoughby 'forced to cut short 7-week Portugal holiday' to self-isolate EastEnders' Ian Beale has been 'written out' as Adam Woodyatt takes 'break' Brooke Vincent reveals amazing garden transformation with Aldi bargains 4 killed in Wiltshire as car smashes into house and catches fire Man dies trying to break up fight outside Wetherspoon pub©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. And a few children got the booster but became sick anyway.“The big answer is that we need a better vaccine,”  Mark Sawyer, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego and an adviser on federal vaccine policy, told Scientific American in 2013. Now, we find ourselves battling outbreaks of diseases we thought we had defeated years ago.

"Other diseases are making a resurgence as a grim consequence of war – including polio. The disease, which lives on surfaces for up to two hours and is spread through sneezes and coughs, will infect 90 percent of non-immune people exposed to it, Whooping cough, or pertussis, is yet another disease that's made a comeback in recent years, and the anti-vaccination movement isn't the only reason why. In the 1980s, concern about the vaccine's side effects led to the development of a new version, which became available in 1992. It's been documented since the time of the ancient Egyptians and was once one of the most feared childhood illnesses in Europe and North America, sometimes causing muscle weakness in the legs, paralysis and even death. People infected develop swolen lymph nodes and eventually pneumonia, which means that it can be passed along by coughing or sneezing.It's been virtually eradicated in the developed world, but Every morning, the editorial team at public radio’s international news show The World meets to plan what they'll cover that day.