Location: India.
It started in one village, as spread to 350 villages, & has killed 160 people. In two weeks.
It hasn’t been identified.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=9c992524-8c22-4c60-8dea-c595ff5d1cd7
Not nice.
Not to sound like Mary Antoinette or anything but it sounds like they could solve their problem pretty easily with a little housekeeping. If they need money, let’s donate some money. I don’t want that shit spreading. Sounds nasty.
It’s the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, mark my words.
Looks like I’m moving to Madagascar.
It looks like that’s an older story. The date just under “Hindustan Times” is 2006. And the copyright is 2007.
But thanks for skeering the bejeebers out of me! And the copyright is 2007.
The story is current - that’s just a sloppy template. (Note the “first published” date.)
Also, this more recent story from the Times of India:
I just finished playing that game! (Coming up with disease names is hard.)
Ugh. I did notice but figured it was the current date that was sloppy.
Well, you can rock me to sleep tonight Larry Mudd, thanks! 
Sorry 'bout that.
(*)@(&#@% madagascar. That damned country closes its borders way too fast. Its nearly impossible to get it infected. 
Where the fuck is Dustin Hoffman when you need him?
Hey, I was thinking about Outbreak too. That movie scared the shit out of me when it came out. Around that time everyone in school was talking about ebola and saying that shit could really happen like it did in the movie. For awhile I believed the next hurricane was going to carry ebola (and thus the end of American civilization) with it.
There’s a comic out there with someone phoning up the president of Madagascar. The person chirps, “Hey, somebody just coughed in Brazil!” and the President turns bright purple, and orders: “Shut the entire country down now!”
Madagascar is going to rule the world, seriously.
And here I got my apocalyptophobic panties in a wad over nothing. Phew! But of course, the fact that I didn’t hear about this at the time means that epidemics could be raging all over the world right now, and I wouldn’t find out about it until a zombie came at my head with an ice cream scoop. Well, I, for one, welcome our new zombie overlords.
psst - see post #6
They closed off Madagascar back in 2006.
Or at least, be the last thing left in it.
What’s the difference?
This is a bit… unsettling. However like a lot of the diseases that also run through Africa I wonder how much of the deaths and injuries are down to poor sanitation/diet and lack of access to good medical treatment. If the exact same disease appeared somewhere in the US or Europe would we even be even necessarily looking at fatalities?
Anyway, one to watch.
Or, at least that’s what they are saying.
Course living in a reeking cesspool will do that to you.
What game are yall talking about?