Nigerians have been warned to stay away from
the consumption of soaked garri, at least for now
so as to prevent Lassa fever.



The warning is coming from the Medical and Health
Workers Union , Lagos State Council, who on
Saturday, January 17, said that it would embark on
public enlightenment to discourage consumption of
soaked garri for now to prevent Lassa fever.
Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos , Razak Adeofalade, the
chairman of the union stated that house rats that
caused Lassa fever are mostly in contact with
Nigerian most popular food, Garri, a cassava
product.



Adeofalade said: “We are going to encourage
members of the public to depart from the process of
drinking garri at this moment, it is better that the
cassava flour is utilised for `eba,’ because of the use
of hot water.



“We are waging total war and that is: `War against
Rats,’ and that is what we are going to do to ensure
we do not have another victim of Lassa Fever in the
state.
“We will also be telling them to ensure that their
fruits and raw vegetables are properly washed if they
must be consumed raw and cook to the appropriate
temperature.
“The whole essence is to enlighten our people
because education carries a lot of weight in this
whole activity.


“We call for adaptation of best practices for food
storage to prevent epidemic.”
According to him, the union is determined to wage
war against rat in the state and public enlightenment
on fighting epidemic.
He said his members cut across all government’s
hospitals and local governments and would be
mobilised to start enlightenment on the evil of
rodents.


“We will go into premises, market place and teach
them on the best practice of storing of food items
from contacts with rodents,’’ he said.



Over 45 death have been recorded in 10 states since
the emergence of Lassa fever.
Naij.com also recalls that the federal government has
commenced the tracing of the whereabouts of about
35 persons that were believed to have come in
contact with a late patient that died as a result of
Lassa fever.




https://www.naij.com/699047-read-danger-contracting-lassa-fever-intake-soaked-garri.html

hmm

What! This Lassa fever must be dealt with fast. How dare it involve garri.

why garri of all food. soon they they will tell us that posting on nairaland can transmit lasa fever