The Chairman, BIOVACCINE Nigeria Ltd. (BVNL), Prof. Oyewale Tomori, has urged the Federal Government to enhance surveillance in the country now that Marburg disease has arrived in Equatorial Guinea and possibly Cameroon.
Tomori, a professor of virology and former vice-chancellor of the Redeemer’s University, Ede, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Abuja, that there was need for enhanced disease surveillance activities in the country.
NAN reports that like Ebola, the Marburg virus originated in bats and spreads via close contact with the bodily fluids of infected people, or surfaces, like contaminated bed sheets.
