According to a News Agency of Nigeria report, Ondo State bush meat sellers are lamenting low patronage, a direct effect of the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in Nigeria, and Africa.
The traders say they no longer get customers as much as they used to get in the recent past – reflecting a warning by health authorities against bush meat and other risk factors. .
Not helping their cause, a consultant obstetrician and gynecologist, Dr Madziga Isa, on Monday, 11 August, implored Nigerians to suspend the eating of roast meat, better known as Suya, to guard against contracting Ebola virus.
He said this during a public awareness lecture with the theme “Ebola: Deadly, Untreatable but Preventable,” organized by the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC).
Madziga urged the populace to reduce their contacts with people, avoid unsafe sex and dispose of the dead with utmost caution. “Do not use your hands to carry dead animals, make sure you wear gloves or use stick to carry them and always use bleach in your household to disinfect,” he said.
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