FLASH: One feared dead as strange killer disease hits Nigeria, this is how you can contract it

Doctor warns over symptoms of the strange disease
– Health minister says the situation is under control
– Urges Nigerians not to panic as the federal government would curtail it soon
Nigerians have been cautioned over a strange killer disease known as
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, which has reportedly claimed one life
already.

While addressing a news conference in Abuja, Professor Isaac Adewole,
Nigeria's minister of Health, explained that the disease already
killed one person and that another person suspected to have been
affected by the disease was responding to treatment at the National
Hospital, Abuja.

Professor Adewole described the disease as an unusual allergic
reaction to medications and urged Nigerians not to panic as the
federal government is doing everything within its power to put an end
to it.


On the symptoms of the disease, Dr Idris Durojaiye who is a
pathologist, stated thus: "The whole skin will peel off but it is
usually linked to a drug that the person has taken, so if there is an
outbreak, it is because people are reacting to a particular drug being
circulated.
"It is usually doctors that can try to identify the drugs that may be
responsible because if there is an outbreak, it means there is a
pattern. So basically, it is the duty of the health authorities to
trace the pattern to know if there is a particular drug that is
responsible for it.

"Normally, a patient cannot know if he would react to a drug because
you cannot know if you have never reacted to the drug before. So my
advice is that whatever drugs that people have reacted to in the past,
they should try and avoid it. But the problem is that if you have
never taken a drug before, you cannot know if you will react to it.
"If the health authorities can find out if the patients took something
that is common to both of them; there has to be a link somewhere if
the patients are in the same location."

Nigerians will recall that the widespread of Ebola, Lassa Fever, Avian
Influenza, among other strange illnesses also started this way,
especially the Ebola virus disease, which is easily contracted via
body contact.
Although the citizens have been asked to be at alert, the federal
government assures that the new disease will be put under total
control soon.