Disir
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"We have witnessed in the last few days a major health challenge. A yet to be named ailment whose causative agents, diagnosis and cure are also yet to be determined struck in locations in Irele Local Government Area of our state, killing 17 people and stoking panic and fear.
“I am, like you, saddened by this losses and the attendant fear of what looks like an epidemic.
“In all, 17 deaths have been confirmed in Ayadi community and Ode Irele township and all the deaths were preceded by symptoms of sudden blurred vision, headache and loss of consciousness,” he added.
Mimiko stressed further that a medical team was dispatched to the communities affected and the General Hospital as well as other health facilities, to gather needed information about the nature, scope and circumstances of the outbreak.
Key informants interview, hospital record search and patient interview he explained , were used to obtain information, stating that “the symptoms in this situation are not peculiar to any known epidemic and so have remained largely confounding.”
He said the symptoms observed in the two communities of Ayadi and Ode Irele bore no resemblance to those associated with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
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“I am, like you, saddened by this losses and the attendant fear of what looks like an epidemic.
“In all, 17 deaths have been confirmed in Ayadi community and Ode Irele township and all the deaths were preceded by symptoms of sudden blurred vision, headache and loss of consciousness,” he added.
Mimiko stressed further that a medical team was dispatched to the communities affected and the General Hospital as well as other health facilities, to gather needed information about the nature, scope and circumstances of the outbreak.
Key informants interview, hospital record search and patient interview he explained , were used to obtain information, stating that “the symptoms in this situation are not peculiar to any known epidemic and so have remained largely confounding.”
He said the symptoms observed in the two communities of Ayadi and Ode Irele bore no resemblance to those associated with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
Ondo s strange disease Panic spreads to Ekiti Oyo
Here we go again.