More on Ebola Virus in Lagos: 30 more people being tested for possible contact

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4104808718303652982" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_7C2KbIwHBAXQXlIoBBnm7ELsrRzlYD1t18H1cuEOgzUUmZL8lJjq1EdDKMiOsljO6bV6UsqeCB4mOOv0CkW0RcWClxlpdxRWJypnaPdNjLlV-6F8gMVlsKDJoIz3mG_tcaAaPcUdp0/s1600/00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY_7C2KbIwHBAXQXlIoBBnm7ELsrRzlYD1t18H1cuEOgzUUmZL8lJjq1EdDKMiOsljO6bV6UsqeCB4mOOv0CkW0RcWClxlpdxRWJypnaPdNjLlV-6F8gMVlsKDJoIz3mG_tcaAaPcUdp0/s1600/00.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></span></a></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Briefing newsmen today, Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Public Health, Dr Yewande Adeshina said the Liberian man being tested for the Ebola Virus is currently at a private hospital in Obalende, Lagos. She said the man has been isolated and the hospital vicinity cordoned off and that 30 other people are also being tested for possible contact with the deadly virus.<br /><br />Dr Adeshina warned residents to;</span></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“keep personal and environmental hygiene” and urged those who notice “strange feeling or symptoms similar to those of Ebola virus, which ranges from fever, headache, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, sore throat and joint pains, which are all symptoms of other ailments, to visit competent health facilities”.</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the absence of such facilities, she said residents should call the following numbers - <a href="tel:08023169485" style="text-decoration: none;">08023169485</a>,<a href="tel:08033086660" style="text-decoration: none;">08033086660</a>, <a href="tel:08033065303" style="text-decoration: none;">08033065303</a>, <a href="tel:08055281442" style="text-decoration: none;">08055281442</a>, <a href="tel:08055329229" style="text-decoration: none;">08055329229</a>.</span></div> </div>

More on Ebola Virus in Lagos: 30 more people being tested for possible contact

Briefing newsmen today, Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Public Health, Dr Yewande Adeshina said the Liberian man being t...

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