The body of the first victim of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria, who died in Lagos on Friday, has been cremated.
Details of the cremation were not available at press time but Sunday Vanguard gathered that the eveny was witnessed by officials of the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, led by its Project Director, Professor Abdulsalam Nasidi, among others.
The decision to cremate
the body of the victim, it was further gathered, may not be
unconnected with the deadly nature of the Ebola Virus which is known to
be easily transmissible from human to human during handling of corpses
of victims.
The World Health
Organisation recommends that in communities where there is an outbreak
of Ebola, appropriate containment measures including burial of the dead
should be properly handled...vanguard
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