The outbreak of plague reached Seychelles, The New York Times reported on 11 October.
The development comes within a fortnight of when World Health Organisation (WHO) said on 29 September that an outbreak of plague killed 20 people in Madagascar within a span of one month.
Madagascar’s health ministry confirmed the case on Wednesday when a 34-year-old man tested positive for the plague after he returned to Seychelles, a series of Islands in the Indian ocean, from Madagascar, reportedly. He has been put in isolation at a hospital in Seychelles.