The Association of West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists in collaboration with the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, Plateau State chapter has organized a one-day sensitization talk with journalists to educate them on the Ebola Virus Disease.
The guest lecturer, Prof. Noel Wannang, said journalists should be the first to know the basic things about the EVD because they are the most vulnerable group of people in the society as they are exposed to certain dangers in trying to handle their job.
Wannang said Ebola, which was first noticed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976, has no known cure and all researches and investigations have not yielded the needed vaccine to curb the scourge.
He added that already, the scourge has been confirmed to have engulfed countries like Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso and Gabon and is spreading like wild fire.
Stressing that some of the known symptoms are recurring headache, diarrhea, fever, itching, vomiting, running nose and red eye among others.
He lamented that Ebola is a viral, highly infectious disease caused by Ebola virus.
It can easily infect several people at the same time, making it an epidemic, and killing up to 90 per cent of its victims.
According to Wannag ,there are three countries with symptoms of the Ebola virus, including Zaire and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Wannang hinted that the scourge had claimed many lives and has the potential of ravaging other continents and countries due to travels, tours and movements of humans.
He said this was why the association deemed it necessary to create awareness on how to control and manage the scourge.
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