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Mystery deaths in Abuja community caused by food poisoning ? Health board
February 26, 2016Premium Times
Rilwanu Muhammad, the Executive Secretary, FCT Primary Health Care Development Board, has said that 13 people died while 10 people survived food poisoning caused by clostridium perfringes in Abuja.
Mr. Muhammad told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday that the disease broke out on Feb. 18 in Saburi community, Gwagwa ward of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).
He said clostridium perfringes is a bacterium which occurs in the soil, contaminates food and the intestinal track of human beings.
NAN recalls that the board had earlier said it suspected typhoid fever or shigella dysentery as the cause of the mysterious deaths in the community.
The board took blood samples from infected persons, water from the well and the three boreholes in the community for clinical diagnosis at the laboratory of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
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February 26, 2016Premium Times
Rilwanu Muhammad, the Executive Secretary, FCT Primary Health Care Development Board, has said that 13 people died while 10 people survived food poisoning caused by clostridium perfringes in Abuja.
Mr. Muhammad told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday that the disease broke out on Feb. 18 in Saburi community, Gwagwa ward of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).
He said clostridium perfringes is a bacterium which occurs in the soil, contaminates food and the intestinal track of human beings.
NAN recalls that the board had earlier said it suspected typhoid fever or shigella dysentery as the cause of the mysterious deaths in the community.
The board took blood samples from infected persons, water from the well and the three boreholes in the community for clinical diagnosis at the laboratory of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
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http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regio...unity-caused-food-poisoning-health-board.html
