Epidemic: Yellow Fever Kills 16 In Ebonyi - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 10, 2019
Sixteenpersons have died in Ndungele community, Izzi Local Government Area of EbonyiState following an outbreak of Yellow Fever virus in the area and somevillagers who have symptoms of the epidemic have been hospitalized.
This iscoming twenty-one years after the state was flustered by a similar experienceof Yellow fever outbreak.
ThePermanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Health Chris Achi, who confirmeddeaths, explained that a response team has been dispatched to the community tocontain the virus.
Achiregretted that the deaths would have been avoided if the people had approachedthe hospital when the symptoms began to manifest in the early stage.=|��Xkj