The Federal Government has confirmed that a strain disease has broken out in Benue State.
It said it had already killed 15 people while about 100 people had already contracted it.
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, however, said it was neither coronavirus, Ebola nor Lassa fever.
According to the minister, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is working hard to unravel the mysterious disease that has left many people dead in Benue State.
He said the NCDC has activated an Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) to coordinate response activities in conjunction with Federal Medical Centre in Makurdi to ascertain the nature of the illness, adding that the victims of the disease showed no symptoms of Ebola, Lassa fever or coronavirus after medical tests were conducted.
Some of the symptoms victims of the disease showed are headache, internal heat, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach ache, weakness of the body and swollen stomach, with Ehanire urging Nigerians to contact NCDC immediately on its toll-free number on – 0800-970000-10 to report strange cases.
The disease broke out in Oyi-Obi community of Benue State on Wednesday January 29, has already killed 15 people. The number of the people affected by the disease have already exceeded 100.
