Oyo Gov’t Issues Alert Over 2 Cases Of Cholera

The State’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi gave the charge while visiting a private hospital in Ibadan where two suspected cholera cases were receiving treatment.

Ajetunmobi noted that Cholera is a bacterial infection spread by eating or drinking food or water contaminated by the faeces of an infected person.

She explained that cholera is highly infectious and could cause severe acute diarrhoea with severe dehydration, adding that the disease might be associated with nausea, profuse vomiting and fever.