BBCA “mysterious” disease has killed at least 18 people in the past several days in south-western Nigeria, local officials say.
The outbreak started in the Ode-Irele town, Ondo state, and spread rapidly.
The disease – characterised by blurred vision, headache and loss of consciousness – killed the victims within 24 hours of falling ill.
Local health officials and World Health Organization experts are now in the town to try to identify the disease.
Laboratory tests have so far ruled out Ebola or any other virus, Ondo government spokesman Kayode Akinmade was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
He described the illness as “mysterious”.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told AFP that all of those affected started showing symptoms between 13-15 April.
The unidentified disease appears to be attacking the central nervous system, state health commissioner Dayo Adeyanju told Nigeria’s Premium Times.
Let’s make some good use of tax dollars for a change by sending all of our politicians to Nigeria for a well deserved fate…..errrrrr vacation! 😉
being poisoned is now called a disease
Nigeria seems to be quite the test sight for all kinds of laboratory-created diseases.
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“…killed the victims within 24 hours of falling ill. ”
Never heard of ANY disease that could kill that quickly. Not in this dimension, anyway.
Calling BULLSH#T on this one. IF anyone really DID die, they were poisoned. IF it truly IS a disease, then it could ONLY have been bio-engineered. The stinking jews aren’t stupid enough to let anything THAT deadly to be arbitrarily released on the same planet they’re still inhabiting.