Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade, has confirmed that 14 people have been killed by a strange illness ravaging Ode Irele community in the state.
He said “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. All the necessary facility that government should provide, government has done that.
“We have moved all the ambulances and everything.
“Available data do not indicate that 34 people have died – only 14.
“And from what we got, the 14 had personal contacts with those people who came to exhume the corpse that led to this epidemic.”An indication that the illness began after the community exhumed a corpse.Details of that development were not immediately available.
Reports said the symptoms of the illness include blindness , rashes and loss of consciousness.
What is most worrying about this illness is that it kills victims within 24 hours .
The unfortunate victims were rushed to the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, and were later moved to the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State.
