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Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic unless it slows the spread of the disease, experts have warned. 专家警告，如果不采取措施，马达加斯加将爆发一场黑死病疫情。 The Red Cross and Pasteur Institute say inmates in the islands dirty, crowded jails are particularly at risk. 红十字会和巴斯德研究所说,犯人在岛上的肮脏、拥挤的监狱尤其面临风险。 ?The number of cases rises each October as hot humid weather attracts fleas, which transmit the disease from rats and other animals to humans. 病例数上升，尤其每年十月当湿热的天气吸引跳蚤,从老鼠身上和其他动物给人类传播疾病。 ?Madagascar had 256 plague cases and 60 deaths last year, the worlds highest recorded number. 去年，马达加斯加有256鼠疫病例和60人死亡,是世界上最高的记录。 ?Bubonic plague, known as the Black Death when it killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages, is now rare. 黑死病杀死了大约2500万人在中世纪的欧洲,而如今也是罕见的。 ? The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva and the Pasteur Institute have worked with local health groups in Madagascar since February 2012 on a campaign to improve prison hygiene. 2012年2月以来，红十字国际委员会(ICRC)在日内瓦和巴斯德研究所已经与当地卫生组织在马达加斯加改善监狱卫生。 ?If the plague gets into prisons there could be a sort of atomic explosion of plague within the town. The prison walls will never prevent the plague from getting out and invading the rest of the town, said the institutes Christophe Rogier. “如果瘟疫进入监狱，将可能有一种如同原子爆炸的瘟疫在城镇。监狱的墙不会防止瘟疫脱离，然后入侵其余的小镇。”研究所的克里斯托夫Rogier说。 ?The ICRC said the 3,000 inmates of Antanimora, the main prison in the heart of the capital Antananarivo, live with a huge rat population which spreads infected fleas through food supplies, bedding and clothing. 国际红十字会认为,3000名囚犯的Antanimora监狱位于首都塔那那利佛的中心, 通过老鼠传播感染的人口数目巨大，而且还可以通过食物,床上用品和服装传播。 ?The ICRCs Evaristo Oliviera said this could affect not only inmates and staff, but others they come into contact with. 国际红十字会的Evaristo Oliviera表示，这样不仅威胁囚犯和员工,但凡其他人接触到都会被感染。 ?A prison is not a sealed place, first of all the staff themselves who work in the prison are at risk, and they go home at the end of the day, alr