There
is panic in Ondo
State as a strange disease, which broke out a few days ago has
killed many people already, health officials in the state confirmed on
Thursday, April 16.
The
disease broke out in Ode-Irele community of the state about three days ago and
according to residents, its victim is killed within 24 hours.
Preliminary
reports from victims revealed the symptoms of the ailment as blindness, and
loss of consciousness.
Contrary
to the State Health Commissioner, Dayo Adeyanju, who said 12 people
have died from the disease; Ebola Alert,
an evidence-driven group of volunteer professionals who helped with the Ebola
Virus Disease interventions in the country put the death figure at 28.
According
to Adeyanju who briefed journalists in Akure on Thursday, the state capital,
preliminary investigations showed that the disease is not Ebola “as
it does not manifest any of its symptoms, but it attacks the central nervous
system of the victims”.
He
assured that the state government is ensuring that the disease does not spread
out of the town, as those infected are being quarantined at the General
Hospital, Irele.
The
cause of the disease is yet to be determined.
Meanwhile,
leaders in the community who spoke to a journalist are attributing the ailment
to a spiritual attack.
“Community
leaders said some people broke into a shrine and the god became angry with
them, striking all those people who have hands in the act,” the journalist told Premium
Times.
It
was reported that people in the town are performing rituals to appease the god.
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