EVERY nation and community of people has a culture, tradition and norms that guide their conduct; no matter how odd and bizarre with the reckoning of time, it is a communal contract that binds the people to their source. Such is the fate of the people of Irele, the Ikale-speaking people of Ondo State.
Sometime last week, the social media was awash with the news of an endemic outbreak in the south senatorial district of the state, whose nature and source have defied all medical explanations, killing almost 20 youths in their prime.
Uninformed sources misrepresented the outbreak because of the strange and mysterious symptoms it manifested in the
victims, labelled it the return of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); thereby causing a great panic in the community and evoking fears in the neighbouring communities and the international community.
According to eyewitnesses, firstly, they would complain of a slight headache, total blindness though their eyes were widely opened and thereafter gave up the ghost within a short period of time.
Though the Ondo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju addressed the whole world that the state government was on top of the situation and without mincing words, dispelled all insinuations that the symptoms of the endemic negated all known facts about EVD.
During the first briefing with journalists in his office in Akure, he disclosed that the ministry had sent a batch of medical team who would curtail the spread of the endemic disease through Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) among the patients in the General Hospital and the people of the ancient town.
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