A member of the World Health Organisation
Committee of Experts on Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa, Prof.
Victor Inem, has said that cured Ebola victims could re-contract the
same virus if they contact fresh carriers of the disease.
He stated this at a one-day
train-the-trainer workshop on Ebola prevention and control organised
during the week for stakeholders by the University of Calabar Teaching
Hospital.
Speaking on the overview of the Ebola
outbreak in West Africa, Inem said, “Even when victims of EVD have been
cured, there are still possibilities that they can re-contract the virus
if they do not avoid body fluids from sufferers and animals believed to
be carriers of the virus.
“It is very possible for cured victims to
re-contract the virus when he brings himself closer to sufferers
through sex, other body fluids, eating of some animals which are
reservoirs of the virus or through processes of burning victims.”
He, however, called on cured victims to distance themselves from sufferers.
Inem warned against embalmment and
unnecessarily prolonged funeral services in parts of Nigeria where
corpses were often touched or kissed.
It will be recalled that the confirmation
of the outbreak of the virus in Lagos on Thursday, July 24, 2014 by the
Lagos State Ministry of health caused panic across the country.
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