A women in her early 80's and five children have been hospitalized in a Makurdi hospital (name withheld) for bathing with and drinking salt water to avert being stricken by the dreaded Ebola virus disease.
There was chaos in Makurdi and other communities of the agrarian state, weekend, when all residents woke up in the midnight to bathe with and drink the salt water solution, claiming that it could prevent them from contracting Ebola virus.
LEADERSHIP gathered from a relative of the affected persons who spoke on the condition of anonymity yesterday, that the aged woman and the children have started vomiting and purging out excreta immediately they consumed it.
The place where the incident occurred, according to the relative, is Logo 1 area of Makurdi, and that the people were quickly rushed to a nearby hospital for urgent medical attention. He said the unhealthy situation was caused as a result of over-consumption of the salt.
This is coming barely 48 hours after the director of public health in the state, Dr. Joseph Kumba debunked the claim that Ebola virus disease could be averted by salt water solution.
Meanwhile, sellers of fairly-used clothes popularly called bend-down-select, yesterday in Makurdi, decried low patronage from customers. The marketers opened for business every Sunday in Wadata, Wurukum and Northbank metropolis of the state capital.
A 45- year- old man who deals in fairly used clothes, simply called Uche, was met at the Wurukum market yesterday. He said, "there is no market because our customers have not come to buy goods and even, many people are saying they are afraid to buy the clothes because of Ebola disease."
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