A strange sickness has been discovered in Oye Obi in the Obi Local Government Area of Benue State with scary symptoms. This is coming in the wake of the deadly Coronavirus in China.
Four people, Happiness Ogbu, Onah Ogbedu, Andy Edu and Wisdom Agwo have been killed by the disease after showing similar symptoms in two weeks. This was made known by the Save our soul letter by a group called Igede national Youths Council.
The symptoms include headache, vomiting, internal heat, stomach ache, weakness of the body and swollen stomach.
6 more persons as at Wednesday, 29 January, 2020 were already down with same symptoms, some of them have been moved to the General Hospital, Oju. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Sunday Ongbabo says an investigation is ongoing to ascertain the nature of the endemic.
What is going on?