antibiotics. in addition to this course of treatment, insecticide is brought to the home or work for flea control. although the ideas and intentions of the national plague control program are good and in theory could be very beneficial to treating and preventing outbreaks of plague, severe economic limitations make the execution of this program less than ideal. furthermore, disparities in rural areas compared to urban areas make accessibility and testing in rural areas challenging. economic resources need to be strengthened before this program can live up to its full potential. after the most recent, major outbreak, the who created a crisis emergency committee to monitor the situation. they deployed epidemiologists, doctors, and risk management coordinators in order to coordinate surveillance, facilitate tracing contacts, oversee case management, administer isolation protocol, and distribute supplies. in addition to the new committee, madagascar reallocated funds in order to help with isolation, treatment, and supplies. these solutions to the outbreak helped, as cases of plague declined and hospitalized patients decreased in volume. other countries twelve more cases of suspected plague appeared in the seychelles days after the death of a 34-year-old male who had recently traveled to madagascar and who was confirmed as having pneumonic plague on 10 october 2017. air seychelles suspended all flights to madagascar. more sophisticated tests later showed that the infection was not plague. a south african basketball player who contracted plague while attending a tournament in madagascar was successfully treated and returned home. the type of plague the player had was not reported, but one of the cases in the seychelles who died of pneumonic plague was thought to have attended the same tournament. the world health organization warned that there was a high risk the disease could spread to nine other countries in africa and the indian ocean (ethiopia, kenya, tanzania, mozambique, south africa, seychelles, comoros, reunion, and mauritius) because of frequent trade and travel with madagascar.