Rabit and not rat.bush rabit has long tail.ibo call it ewii

supersun1:
Lassa Fever Alert, Need Urgent Response!!!

Few minutes ago, While drinking water before I left a garden somewhere in Garki Abuja‎ where I just had lunch. I saw 3 young men holding a huge live rat they just caught in the garden. Out of curiosity, I asked them if they were aware of Lassa fever and to my greatest surprise they knew nothing of such. From a distance, I watched them slaughter the rat, smoke it and proceeded into the kitchen where the food I ate came from. 
This is a clear evidence that the publicity and enlightenment campaign given to the disease is below sufficient. I'm starting to believe what a caller on radio said some days back; that unlike Ebola, the poor are more vulnerable to Lassa fever hence the government won't give it adequate attention.‎

Meanwhile, I just had lunch in this garden, and starting to get worried if I may have contacted the disease, and I'm picking up my daughter from school in another 2 hours. Please guys can one get tested for Lassa fever like you get tested for HIV‎

Lalasticlala please ask your doctor friends in the house to respond!!! If possible Front Page this!!!

Photos of the Rat and it's captors are attached.

perry2020:
Area 2 garden

thought d same

supersun1:
Lassa Fever Alert, Need Urgent Response!!!

Few minutes ago, While drinking water before I left a garden somewhere in Garki Abuja‎ where I just had lunch. I saw 3 young men holding a huge live rat they just caught in the garden. Out of curiosity, I asked them if they were aware of Lassa fever and to my greatest surprise they knew nothing of such. From a distance, I watched them slaughter the rat, smoke it and proceeded into the kitchen where the food I ate came from. 
This is a clear evidence that the publicity and enlightenment campaign given to the disease is below sufficient. I'm starting to believe what a caller on radio said some days back; that unlike Ebola, the poor are more vulnerable to Lassa fever hence the government won't give it adequate attention.‎

Meanwhile, I just had lunch in this garden, and starting to get worried if I may have contacted the disease, and I'm picking up my daughter from school in another 2 hours. Please guys can one get tested for Lassa fever like you get tested for HIV‎

Lalasticlala please ask your doctor friends in the house to respond!!! If possible Front Page this!!!

Photos of the Rat and it's captors are attached.

That's not lassa fever rat

Abeg Come Ooo, nah every thing dem go post 4 this Nairaland Even Do Person Should Poo! It'll Be Uploaded To The Site For Discussion! !! Too Bad! !! !!!

And that's what you ate-

End time mumus

Lassa host na dose small rats not dese

ayusco85:


Kerry I know say u dey chop rat up till now. Fear lassa fever o, I no Sabi cry o. In case u chop come kick jerry-can

your lacrimal gland damage ni? BTW, i no dey chop any animal that start with R and end with T.....

this rat's them go do meeting? na so d time way Ebola they nobody agree to eat rat or rabbit again, now na lasser fever, we still they fear to eat rat or rabbit na wa o, everything God has created is beautiful and good to eat according to d bible just give God thanks for availability and go ahead to eat

mrking3:
That's Grass cutter Bro!

That`s ignorance, bro.

okete is not grasscutter

Dat is what we call rabbit In naija here..... Lol

Rat protein

Akerry:
your lacrimal gland damage ni? BTW, i no dey chop any animal that start with R and end with T.....

Why u come dey admire the rat?

Abeg my people number be something go kill man

this rabbit and not Lassa rat.........lassa rat are those long mouth rat.

Lol ...nor bi dis kain rat de cause lassa fever joooooor! Na those ones wen de house

ayusco85:

Why u come dey admire the rat?

is it a sin to admire a rat?

supersun1:

Few minutes ago, While drinking water before I left a garden somewhere in Garki Abuja‎ where I just had lunch. I saw 3 young men holding a huge live rat they just caught in the garden. Out of curiosity, I asked them if they were aware of Lassa fever and to my greatest surprise they knew nothing of such. From a distance, I watched them slaughter the rat, smoke it and proceeded into the kitchen where the food I ate came from. 
This is a clear evidence that the publicity and enlightenment campaign given to the disease is below sufficient. I'm starting to believe what a caller on radio said some days back; that unlike Ebola, the poor are more vulnerable to Lassa fever hence the government won't give it adequate attention.‎

Meanwhile, I just had lunch in this garden, and starting to get worried if I may have contacted the disease, and I'm picking up my daughter from school in another 2 hours. Please guys can one get tested for Lassa fever like you get tested for HIV‎

Lalasticlala please ask your doctor friends in the house to respond!!! If possible Front Page this!!!

Photos of the Rat and it's captors are attached.

Isn't this grass-cutter or squirrel instead? Maybe you're confusing grass-cutter/squirrel for rat.

supersun1:

Few minutes ago, While drinking water before I left a garden somewhere in Garki Abuja‎ where I just had lunch. I saw 3 young men holding a huge live rat they just caught in the garden. Out of curiosity, I asked them if they were aware of Lassa fever and to my greatest surprise they knew nothing of such. From a distance, I watched them slaughter the rat, smoke it and proceeded into the kitchen where the food I ate came from. 
This is a clear evidence that the publicity and enlightenment campaign given to the disease is below sufficient. I'm starting to believe what a caller on radio said some days back; that unlike Ebola, the poor are more vulnerable to Lassa fever hence the government won't give it adequate attention.‎

Meanwhile, I just had lunch in this garden, and starting to get worried if I may have contacted the disease, and I'm picking up my daughter from school in another 2 hours. Please guys can one get tested for Lassa fever like you get tested for HIV‎

Lalasticlala please ask your doctor friends in the house to respond!!! If possible Front Page this!!!

Photos of the Rat and it's captors are attached.

The mastomys rat which harbours the virus that causes lassa fever is a much smaller rat than that one. It is a rat with about 12 rows of nipples on either side of the abdomen stretching between the front and back legs. It's only the mastomys species that harbour the virus. The picture I have attached is a good specimen of the rat showing the mammary glands and giving an idea of its size. Test for the lassa virus is cumbersome and only VERY few labs (last time I checked only three) run the definitive test in Nigeria which is unlike the case with HIV.

Akerry:
is it a sin to admire a rat?

Brb lemme as Jesus.

That is cane rat now

supersun1:

Few minutes ago, While drinking water before I left a garden somewhere in Garki Abuja‎ where I just had lunch. I saw 3 young men holding a huge live rat they just caught in the garden. Out of curiosity, I asked them if they were aware of Lassa fever and to my greatest surprise they knew nothing of such. From a distance, I watched them slaughter the rat, smoke it and proceeded into the kitchen where the food I ate came from. 
This is a clear evidence that the publicity and enlightenment campaign given to the disease is below sufficient. I'm starting to believe what a caller on radio said some days back; that unlike Ebola, the poor are more vulnerable to Lassa fever hence the government won't give it adequate attention.‎

Meanwhile, I just had lunch in this garden, and starting to get worried if I may have contacted the disease, and I'm picking up my daughter from school in another 2 hours. Please guys can one get tested for Lassa fever like you get tested for HIV‎

Lalasticlala please ask your doctor friends in the house to respond!!! If possible Front Page this!!!

Photos of the Rat and it's captors are attached.

This is RABBIT and not rat as you posited in your article. There is a clear difference between them and you must make efforts to find out that and stop spreading falsehood to the callow minds in NL.

This is a giant African rat or a gambian pouched rat..the Yorubas call it Okete; it is a highly intelligent animal sometimes trained to detect landmines and early stage tuberculosis. It has the personality of a dog as it is a highly social animal, more like a mouse than a rat; it doesn't bite man for some reason and is now highly sought after as a house hold pet because of its gentle personality and high intelligence.

supersun1:

Few minutes ago, While drinking water before I left a garden somewhere in Garki Abuja‎ where I just had lunch. I saw 3 young men holding a huge live rat they just caught in the garden. Out of curiosity, I asked them if they were aware of Lassa fever and to my greatest surprise they knew nothing of such. From a distance, I watched them slaughter the rat, smoke it and proceeded into the kitchen where the food I ate came from. 
This is a clear evidence that the publicity and enlightenment campaign given to the disease is below sufficient. I'm starting to believe what a caller on radio said some days back; that unlike Ebola, the poor are more vulnerable to Lassa fever hence the government won't give it adequate attention.‎

Meanwhile, I just had lunch in this garden, and starting to get worried if I may have contacted the disease, and I'm picking up my daughter from school in another 2 hours. Please guys can one get tested for Lassa fever like you get tested for HIV‎

Lalasticlala please ask your doctor friends in the house to respond!!! If possible Front Page this!!!

Photos of the Rat and it's captors are attached.

grass cutter u dey call rat? Nothing will happen to them

Bimpe29:
What a big rodent? Okete nla! Hmmn! Apparently, they are really unaware of Lassa fever. You can imagine people in the heart of capital city, Abuja unawares of this deadly disease how much more the residents elsewhere.

grass cutter not rat, this one don't cause lassa disease

Akerry:
there is nothing wrong with dat rat joor..... sojiboy and ayusco85 come and see

Please, that is a grasscutter ...

Na rabbit be that na... check the bears

Bros u fall hand die, so u nor know d difference btw grass cutter( rabbit) and Rat what a shame

As I don look this rat for picture... shey no be say I don catch Lassa fever

This na bush rabbit not rat for those that don't know the difference if you can see the white part at the end of the tail that is the difference btw a rat and a bush rabbit...

killed and eaten 6hrs ago. . . am still observing my body temperature though