Health: Lagos State Govt. Alert On Ebola Virus, Gives Precautionary Tips
virus currently sweeping through some West African countries. The
government in a statement signed by the state’s Commissioner for Health,
Dr. Jide Idris, issued the alert as a precautionary measure to
forestall the outbreak of the virus in the state. Countries like Sierra
Leone, Liberia, Guinea have recorded a number of cases of the disease.
The statement reads in part below;
“Ebola virus ds caused by the Ebola virus
and outbreaks occur primarily in villages of the Central and West
Africa. The virus can be spread through, close contact with the blood,
body fluids, organ and tissues of infected animals; direct contact with
blood, organ or body secretions of an infected person. The transmission
of the virus by other animals like monkey and chimpanzee cannot be ruled
out. Early symptoms of disease include fever, headache, chills,
diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, sore throat, backache, and joint pains.
Later symptoms include bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose, bleeding
from the mouth and rectum, eye swelling, swelling of the genitals and
rashes all over the body that often contain blood. It could progress to
coma, shock and death.”
The commissioner said individuals that are of high risk of getting
infected are health workers, families or friends of an infected person
who could be infected in the course of feeding, holding and caring for
them.
He gave measures to avoid being infected to include; washing of hands
often with soap and water, avoiding close contact with people who are
sick and ensuring that objects used by the sick are decontaminated and
properly disposed. He also advised that any suspected case should be
immediately reported to the state’s Ministry of Health or any Local
Government.
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