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Ebola Cannot Be Contracted by Eating Bush meat-yewande Adeshina by Swagavillage(m): 10:32pm On Jul 29, 2014
Special Adviser on Public Affairs to the Lagos
State Governor, Dr Yewande Adeshina, on
Tuesday debunked claims that eating bush
meat can lead to a human getting infected by
the dreaded Ebola virus.
“We don’t we have any proven scientific
relationship between eating bush meat and
catching the infection. But we do know that
preparation of these wild animals, especially if
they carry the virus, can lead to the infection”,
she said while speaking as a guest on Sunrise
Daily.
She further noted that no animal has been
confirmed as the “natural reservoir for the
virus” but was quick to add that “fruit bats are
implicated and they are very common in the
tropical rain forest area”.
She added that the fruit bat carries the virus in
a symbiotic relationship. “The virus does not
infect the bat; they live together in a
communal relationship” she said.
She however noted if a human or an animal
eats from the same fruit an infected bat has
eaten from, they will get infected adding that
with “bush meat for instance, humans catch
the animal, kills it, treats it; the blood gets on
the human and it infects the human” warning
that “it is not so much the eating of the bush
meat as much as the preparing because the
blood is where the virus is in, not in the meat
itself”.
Dr Adeshina advised those who prepare bush
meat to boil it above 60 degrees “because
such temperatures can kill the virus.
“But if you air dry it or smoke it on a low
barbeque kind of thing and you have raw parts
of the bush meat and you eat it, you may be
infected; but we don’t we have any proven
scientific relationship between eating bush
meat and catching the infection. But we do
know that preparation of these wild animals,
especially if they carry the virus, can lead to
the infection”, she said.
Dr Adeshina also urged Nigerians not to be
wary of people they see around daily because
of the reported outbreak, insisting that “a
person infected with Ebola virus cannot be
walking around; they are deadly sick. So you
are not going to run into them in the store or
the market”.
“Before the illness strikes they can go round
because they are not infectious” but warned
that “the minute their fever breaks and the
system starts crashing is when they become
infectious and by that time you will see that
that person is really sick” she added.
She further stated that but for the organisation
of the agency the late Patrick Sawyer, the
Liberian who was killed by the virus in a
private hospital in Lagos, works for, the
Federal and Lagos State governments would
have had their work cut out for them.
She said “he works for an organisation that is
really organised. They have their liaison officer,
protocol officer and a dedicated vehicle”
insisting that “that was the break we got
because if this man had gone into a public
transportation system, gone to a hotel, we
wouldn’t be talking prevention now, we would
be scared of an outbreak.
59 Persons Under Watch
Meanwhile the 59 people said to have come in
contact with the late Liberian are said to be
under watch by the relevant authorities.
This was disclosed at a joint ministerial press
briefing of the Lagos State Ministry of Health
and Federal Ministry of Health, in Lagos, on
Monday by the Lagos State Commissioner for
Health, Dr Jide Idris.
Dr Idris also affirmed that no Nigerian had
been infected by the dreaded disease.
The airline that flew late Patrick Sawyer to
Nigeria, according to the state government,
had, however, not yet provided the flight
manifest.
The state government called for calm, assuring
that its collaborative efforts with the Federal
Government were enough to ensure that the
disease did not spread.
Dr Idris informed that so far, a total of 59
contacts were registered, consisting of 44
hospital contacts (38 healthcare workers and
six laboratory staff) and 15 airport contacts,
comprising three ECOWAS staff-driver, liaison
and protocol officers, Nigerian Ambassador to
Monrovia, two nursing staff and five airport
passenger handlers.
He explained that out of the number, 20
contacts had been physically screened, of
which 50 per cent were of the type one contact
and another 50 per cent, type two contacts,
adding that the airline manifest had not been
provided yet.
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Re: Ebola Cannot Be Contracted by Eating Bush meat-yewande Adeshina by hushmail: 11:30pm On Jul 29, 2014
dis na truly serious matter,

make person no take me play

b4 na bush monkey abi na chimp dey cause Ebola

now, na bush meat do dey cause Ebola

grin grin grin
Re: Ebola Cannot Be Contracted by Eating Bush meat-yewande Adeshina by Swagavillage(m): 11:38pm On Jul 29, 2014
lol

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