A woman who recently came back from Italy is said to affect more than 14 people with the deadly virus, which makes the villagers to be angry and set to burn her house down.
CORONAVIRUS: Abuja, Lagos respond to 'lock-down' order The lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun kicks in at 11pm local time (22:00 GMT) on Monday and will stay in place for at least two weeks, President Muhammadu Buhari announced on Sunday, a little over a month after Nigeria confirmed its first case. "All citizens in these areas are to stay in their homes. Travel to or from other states should be postponed. All businesses and offices within these locations should be fully closed during this period," Buhari said in an address to the nation. Home to an estimated 20 million people, Lagos is Africa's most populous city and Nigeria's financial hub. Abuja is the capital of the country and the seat of its government. Oil-rich Rivers state and Kaduna state in the north earlier imposed similar lockdown measures. The restrictions announced do not apply to hospitals and stores selling essential items such as groceries and medicine. "We will use t...
COVID-19 AFFECT MORE MEN THAN WOMEN ACCORDING TO RESEARCH BY SCIENTIST Scientist went to figure out why COVID- 19 affects more men than women. Data collected from Chinese cases revealed that death rate of 64% for men and 36% for women. The same patterns was seen in data collected from Europe and South Korea, it is still too early to come to conclusion about the COVID-19 gender gap. Nonetheless, researchers propose a number of reasons to explain this, Males and Females have major structural differences in their bodies this includes tissues, organ and even immune system. Women tend to have greater immune responses to a variety of viruses, scientist examined the plasma for confirmed COVID-19 patient, they found that woman had higher levels of antibodies that men this may Indicate different degrees of immune response between men and women. Females have more hormonestrogen, which has been shown to protect against a wider range of viral infection. A study shows that...
WHAT MAY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW VIRUS KNOWN AS HANTAVIRUS Hantaviruses are a family of viruses spread mainly by rodents and can cause varied disease syndromes in people worldwide. Infection with any hantavirus can produce hantavirus disease in people. Hantaviruses in the Americas are known as “New World” hantaviruses and may cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) . Other hantaviruses, known as “Old World” hantaviruses, are found mostly in Europe and Asia and may cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) . Each hantavirus serotype has a specific rodent host species and is spread to people via aerosolized virus that is shed in urine, feces, and saliva, and less frequently by a bite from an infected host. The most important hantavirus in the United States that can cause HPS is the Sin Nombre virus , spread by the deer mouse.
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