7 Month old baby suspected to have Ebola virus in Kwara

According to Prof. Sunday Opabola, the Kwara State

Chairman of the Ebola Viral control Committee said the first

Ebola case in the state is that of a 7 month old baby who

came with his parents from Ibadan for a visit at Ilorin after

one of those taking care of him had returned to Ibadan from

Lagos.The baby has been isolated and samples taken to

Lagos for testing. Read below:

By 9 am yesterday, I was called to the ministry of health

that a proprietor of a private hospital who is a

pediatrician reported a suspected case on admission in

his hospital.

The suspected patient is a seven-month old child that came to

Ilorin with the mother and she came out with suspicion of

malaria and was admitted at Surulere clinic and they started

treating him for malaria, that is on the 10th of this month,

four days ago. After managing him for two days, there was

no improvement, he was referred to a pediatrician.

"After clinical assessment, he apparently saw some

symptoms that look like Ebola. These symptoms basically

fever, diarrhea, vomiting that were being taken care of

before in other hospitals but he now saw that this vomiting

consists of blood and that was where he made a report.

"Now if it were not in this situation we are, I am sure he

couldn't have made any report because some other diseases

could have presented these same symptoms, even malaria in

children would present something like. Other viral infections,

viral hemorrhagic diseases would present like this, Lassa

fever and so on, even cholera can present like this but

because in this situation we have been at alert and we don't

want to take chances.

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