Nigeria: Benue strange illness: Death toll rises to 17 in Owukpa -- Yellow Fever?

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Source: https://dailypost.ng/2020/11/17/breaking-benue-strange-illness-death-toll-rises-to-17-in-owukpa/

Benue strange illness: Death toll rises to 17 in Owukpa
Published
on November 17, 2020
By Annie Nwosu

Seventeen people have been confirmed dead with many currently hospitalized after a strange illness broke out in Ankpa Owukpa in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State.

DAILY POST had reported that the honourable member representing Itabono ward 1 in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State, Hon. Patrick Ejeh, also known as Pataba, had raised the alarm over an epidemic which broke out at Ankpa Owukpa, killing several people and leaving so many hospitalized.

Ejeh, in a motion raised on Tuesday, drew the attention of both the government and community leaders to the strange illness in order to avoid further escalation.

A source and member of the Owukpa Advocacy Forum, who pleaded anonymity, decried lack of doctors at the affected community.

He said that doctors were sent to Otukpa instead of Ankpa, when the alarm was raised in the local government headquarters earlier.

Another member of the group added that one of the boys referred to the FMC Makurdi from Okpoga died on Monday while another was buried on Monday at Ankpa...

 

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Strange ailment kills over 70 in Benue communities
The Eagle Online by The Eagle Online
December 2, 2020

At least 70 people in Epello-Otukpa and Itabono-Owukpa communities in Ogbadipo Local Government Area of Benue State have been killed by a strange ailment suspected to be yellow fever.

This was made known by Senator Abba Moro on Wednesday while addressing newsmen over the outbreak of the strange ailment in the communities.

Senator Moro, who had earlier sponsored a motion on the urgent need to deal with the situation, during plenary, revealed that the local government youth leader was part of the people who lost their lives to the ailment.

He noted in his motion: “The strange ailment has not yet been effectively diagnosed by health authorities,” adding however, that the state Ministry of Health and Human Services has been able to intervene to some extent having collected samples and sent to the National Reference Laboratory for possible interim treatment...