Ebola: Epileptic patient dies in Edo

An epileptic patient whose identity is yet to be ascertain has died at Udo Community in Ovia South West local government area of Edo State because residents were scared of touching his body after an attack.
Sources said a driver hired to take the deceased to the hospital ran away for fear of being infected with the Ebola virus.
Some of the villagers insisted that the deceased had an epileptic attack but others said he was an Ebola victim as blood was noticed in some parts of his body.
A source said the villagers covered their hands with clothes and bundled the sick body into an empty bus and asked the driver to take the man to a hospital but the driver who they said became scared turned down the request.
According to the source, the driver brought down the epileptic patient from his bus after which the man died.
Members of the community have reportedly fled their homes.
The source said, “We are scared because we have been watching adverts on TV by the state Ministry of Information telling us to be vigilance of signs like blood and fever. And the man was shivering and we saw blood and foam from his mouth and that was why everybody ran away.”
Officials of the state Ministry of Health have collected the deceased blood sample to ascertain the cause of his death.

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