A 19-year-old boy from Zaria, Kaduna
State was on Tuesday put under
isolation at the Ahmadu Bello University
Teaching Hospital, Zaria, for exhibiting
symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus
disease
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SOURCE: PUNCH
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19-year-old boy from Zaria, Kaduna State
was on Tuesday put under isolation at the
Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital,
Zaria, for exhibiting symptoms of the
deadly Ebola virus disease.
Ebola aid worker
Kaduna State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Thot
Dogo, who confirmed this to PUNCH
correspondents in Kaduna, said the hospital
authorities alerted the ministry when they
suspected that the man, who is an undergraduate
of ABU, Zaria started showing some signs of Ebola
symptoms like high fever and rashes on his body
after over a week he was admitted at the hospital.
Dogo said the blood sample of the patient has been
taken to a laboratory in Lagos for tests.
According to him, the outcome of the laboratory
result would determine further actions.
He noted that the state government has provided
the hospital management with protective
equipment for its team of medical personnel
attending to the patient.
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