BREAkING NEWS:Ignore Ebola Rumour, No Ebola case in Lagos – Govt

The State Government has declined the claims of new cases of the
Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria.
The state govt therefore urged Nigerians to discountenance the rumour
claiming that three people, who just returned from Liberia, died of
the disease and infected 12 other persons.
It however, confirmed that two Nigerian volunteers, returning from
Liberia, were taken to the Mainland Hospital in Yaba and had remained
negative to the EVD for more than two weeks.
Speaking at an inter-ministerial press briefing on Tuesday, state
Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, said the state government had
traced the sources of the rumour to a website and a twitter account.
According to the commissioner, the claims emanated from
www.mercyjblog.com/2015 /04/breaking-ebola-returns-to-nigeria-
after.html and @iChexo on the 9th and 12th of April respectively.
He added that the state government believed that the authors, whom he
said would be made to face the music, "simply wanted to generate
traffic to their websites, which would appear successfully achieved.''
Faulting the claims, Idris said the outcome of verification efforts by
the state government had shown that the alerts from the sources were
false.
Idris said, "On the April 9, 2015, there was a rumour in the social
media on the return of Ebola Virus Disease to Nigeria, killing three
and infecting 12 other persons. According to the rumour, the deceased
were returnees from Liberia, and one of them was reportedly taken to
an undisclosed hospital in Lagos.
"The propagator of the EVD rumour failed to give information on the
date of arrival of the victims in Nigeria, the port(s) of entry as
well as the name of the health facility/laboratory in Lagos where the
confirmatory diagnosis of EVD was made.
"The second rumour, concerning two Chinese visitors from Sierra Leone
was posted on Twitter (@iChexo) on April 12, 2015, claiming that the
two Chinese died of EVD at LUTH same day.
"Investigation carried out at
LUTH confirmed that to be completely untrue."
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