Suspected Ebola Case In OAU?

"Fear gripped students, parents and staff of Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile-Ife on Tuesday over a report that a patient on
admission at the OAU Health Centre was a suspected Ebola Virus Disease
victim.

Though the management of the school initially denied the development
but the Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Temitope Ilori, said
the sick student had confessed having contact with the late Port
Harcourt doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who died of the EVD after he secretly
treated an infected ECOWAS diplomat, Olu-Ibukun Koye, in a hotel in
the Rivers State capital.

The commissioner said the female student had been put in the isolation ward.

Ilori said, "I was told that a student of the OAU who had contact with
the doctor who died of the Ebola virus in Port Harcourt walked into
the health centre when she was sick.

"She was said to have told doctors at the health centre that she had
contact with the Port Harcourt doctor and was put under surveillance
but she said she tested negative that time.

"Now she returned to the OAU to continue with her studies and was
sick. She was said to have walked to the health centre and told them
everything about her contact with the doctor.

"Her blood sample has been taken for another test in Lagos and we are
awaiting the result. We pray she is not positive but she has been
isolated at the health centre."

When one of our correspondents visited the hospital on Tuesday, it was
observed that health officials were disinfecting the surroundings of
the medical centre and more attention was paid to places where
patients sit before being attended to.

It was also learnt that top officials of the hospital held an
emergency meeting after testing the suspected patient, who was said to
have been on admission in the hospital since Monday.

To ensure calmness in the institution, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof.
Bamitale Omole, urged students to desist from spreading rumours about
EVD.

(Source http://www.osundefender.org/?p=185820)

I'll advice all the students to remain calm and concentrate on
boosting their immune system; eat bitter Kola, drink ugwu, ewedu...