*Highly infectious disease in the same family as Ebola Ahamefula Ogbu As Guinea, Nigeria’s co-West African country is cringing over the spread to the country yesterday of Marbug virus, said to be d…
As Guinea, Nigeria’s co-West African country is cringing over the spread to the country yesterday of Marbug virus, said to be deadlier than Ebola, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control , Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu has assured Nigerians that the country “is at low risk of its outbreak.”
“We are very aware and it tells us that we have to always be on our guard here. We set up a risk analysis team yesterday, evaluated the risk for Nigeria. It is low at the moment. While yet to detect a case in Nigeria, he counseled that, “We need to learn to do the simple things while not losing the beautiful aspect of our culture that mingles us together.
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