Nigeria: Expert Allays Fears, As Ebola Scare Hits Lagos

12 April 2015

Residents of Lagos and environs have been urged to ignore a rumoured re-emergence of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos. The rumour, which began trending on the social media late on the night of Friday April 10, 2015, threw a wide section of the populace into wild panic even as some residents began making preparations to leave the city.

Vanguard gathered that the purported message entitled "Ebola Returns to Nigeria after Killing 3 and infecting 12" , continued to circulate on Facebook, WatsApp and Twitter, into Saturday, the day of the Gubernatorial and States Houses of Reps elections held nationwide.

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