Typhoid fever, dysentery kill 13 in Abuja


Dr Rilwanu Muhammad, the Executive Secretary, FCT Primary Health Care Development Board, said unknown disease suspected to be typhoid fever or shigella dysentery had killed 13 people in Saburi community of AMAC in Abuja.
Muhammad told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday that the disease broke out on Feb. 18.
He said 13 out of 14 affected  people died while a five-year-old child survived the outbreak as at Feb. 22.
The scribe said the victims of the disease are not from a single household.
According to him, the victims are experiencing fever, abdominal pain and diarrhoea, and sometimes bloody diarrhoea and they subsequently die.
“There is no good sanitation in the community and we suspect salmonella typhi and shigella dysentery in that community,’’ said Muhammad.
He explained that shigella dysentery is a bacterial species causing dysentery in humans and  in monkeys, found only in faeces of symptomatic individuals.
“It is not food poisoning; it is not cholera or gastroenteritis; that is why we are suspecting typhoid,’’ the executive secretary emphasised.
He said the board had taken the sample of the water from the well and three different boreholes in the community for analysis.
He said the community had about 20 boreholes and all of them are not looking neat.
Muhammad urged the community to embrace hand washing, good personal hygiene and good environmental management.
The scribe added that the sample was taken to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control laboratory to confirm the diagnosis.




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