NOA warns Nigerians to stay alert over Ebola risk amid global concerns

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) successful Kano State has urged Nigerians to stay alert and instrumentality preventive measures against the menace of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), contempt determination being nary confirmed lawsuit successful the country.

The authorities manager of the agency, Mariya Bello Maikudi, gave the informing successful a nationalist wellness advisory issued connected Tuesday.

She said the alert became indispensable owed to increasing planetary concerns and the accrued hazard of cross-border transmission done planetary travel.

According to her, Nigeria has been placed connected precocious alert by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention arsenic a precaution to support nationalist health.

“Although nary confirmed lawsuit has been reported successful Nigeria astatine this time, the state has been placed connected precocious alert,” she said.

The bureau explained that Ebola is simply a superior and often fatal illness dispersed done nonstop interaction with the blood, assemblage fluids, oregon secretions of an infected idiosyncratic oregon animal.

It listed communal symptoms arsenic abrupt fever, weakness, headache, sore throat, musculus pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, and, successful immoderate cases, unexplained bleeding from parts of the body.

NOA advised Nigerians to support bully hygiene and instrumentality elemental preventive steps to trim the hazard of infection.

It urged citizens to lavation hands regularly ...