Mystery disease' kills 18 in Nigeria - officials

[Disir]

"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).
Ondo s strange disease Panic spreads to Ekiti Oyo

Here we go again.

 

[Moonglow]

What is up over there? It seems the virus capital is Africa. What with all the misery there of famine and war....

 

[depotoo]

Strange Ondo Disease Linked To Exhumed Corpse - Nigeria Daily News

Poosibly due to an exhumed body-
Kayode Akinmade, the Ondo state commissioner for information and strategy, said the deaths are directly connected to an exhumed corpse in the community.

Akinmade said the disease was not the same as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), although it had managed to kill its victims in less than 24 hours.

“The symptoms were not that of Ebola; it’s a 24-hour attack that would make the victim to have headache, be unconscious, then after 24 hours, the person is gone. That one cannot be Ebola,” he said.

“All the necessary facility that government should provide, government has done that. We have moved all the ambulances and everything.”

He added that although there were claims that as many as 34 people had died, only 14 people had fallen victim of the strange disease.

“Available data do not indicate that 34 people have died – only 14,” he said.

“And from what we got, the 14 had personal contacts with those people who came to exhume the corpse that led to this epidemic.”

He added that the state commissioner for health, Dayo Akinyanju would “in the next couple of hours, make a state wide broadcast” to update Nigerians on the state of the disease.

Soji Gbadebo, the permanent secretary (protocol), in the state corroborated Akinmade’s position.

“There is a general allusion that there was a – there was something buried there (Ode Irele) and some people went there to exhume the thing, and sold it to this English people,” Gbadebo said.

“Only those who were directly involved have been affected by this epidemic.

 

[HenryBHough]

Those symptoms, especially the blurred vision, sound like the side effects warned of in many of the TV ads for various "male enhancement" type products. I doubt that's involved but it should give potential buyers food for thought.

 

[Disir]

Strange Ondo Disease Linked To Exhumed Corpse - Nigeria Daily News

Poosibly due to an exhumed body-
Kayode Akinmade, the Ondo state commissioner for information and strategy, said the deaths are directly connected to an exhumed corpse in the community.

Akinmade said the disease was not the same as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), although it had managed to kill its victims in less than 24 hours.

“The symptoms were not that of Ebola; it’s a 24-hour attack that would make the victim to have headache, be unconscious, then after 24 hours, the person is gone. That one cannot be Ebola,” he said.

“All the necessary facility that government should provide, government has done that. We have moved all the ambulances and everything.”

He added that although there were claims that as many as 34 people had died, only 14 people had fallen victim of the strange disease.

“Available data do not indicate that 34 people have died – only 14,” he said.

“And from what we got, the 14 had personal contacts with those people who came to exhume the corpse that led to this epidemic.”

He added that the state commissioner for health, Dayo Akinyanju would “in the next couple of hours, make a state wide broadcast” to update Nigerians on the state of the disease.

Soji Gbadebo, the permanent secretary (protocol), in the state corroborated Akinmade’s position.

“There is a general allusion that there was a – there was something buried there (Ode Irele) and some people went there to exhume the thing, and sold it to this English people,” Gbadebo said.

“Only those who were directly involved have been affected by this epidemic.

It just smacks of the next Indiana Jones movie.

 

[Mr. H.]

Bring 'em on over to the U.S. Obama will care for them.

 

[Moonglow]

Bring 'em on over to the U.S. Obama will care for them.

He has a good bedside manner....