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Reps raise alarm over possible Ebola outbreak

Roseline Oladele by Roseline Oladele
September 30, 2022
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The House of Representatives has raised an alarm over the possible outbreak of Ebola virus in the country, urging  Federal Government to immediately activate preventive measures.

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Members of the House at Thursday’s  plenary unanimously adopted a motion moved by a lawmaker, Dachung Bagos, who warned that the virus might spread to Nigeria as other African countries have been recording cases of Ebola.

Bagos noted that the Ugandan health authorities, on September 20, declared an outbreak of Ebola  caused by the Sudan virus, following laboratory confirmation of a patient from a village in Madudu sub-county, Mubende District, Central Uganda.

The lawmaker said that the World Health Organisation expressed concerns that in the absence of licensed vaccines and therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of the Sudan virus disease, the potential of a risky public health impact is high.

He added that investigations are ongoing to determine the scope of the outbreak and the possibility of spreading.

“According to the information currently available, the overall risk has been assessed as high at the national level considering the confirmed Sudan virus and the lack of an authorised vaccine, the possibility that the event started three weeks before the identification of the index case and several transmission chains have not been tracked.

“The House is worried that the Ebola virus is giving a lot of people concern around the world, as it was the variant that gave a lot of infections and fatalities in some countries.

“The House is concerned that Nigeria has reason to be wary at the moment as the deadly Ebola virus can get into Nigeria through our borders or travellers coming into Nigeria for business or any reason and could become dominant if unchecked,” Bagos said.

Adopting the motion, the House mandated the Federal Ministry of Health to “immediately activate strategies to be implemented in monitoring adherence to Ebola guidelines and ensure residents continue to comply with all advisories aimed at curtailing the likely development of the virus in Nigeria.”

The lawmakers mandated the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC) to ensure intensive observation and check on travel protocols for inbound passengers from red flag countries.

They further mandated the NCDC to set up a national response to control the likely emergence and spread of  Ebola virus to spare Nigerians the brunt of the pandemic.

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