Professor Isaac Adewole, Nigeria's heath minister claims that 25% of Nigerians are suffering from frightful virus. According to the minister of health of the federation, the total number of Nigerian who have been infected with the much-feared Zika virus stands at 25% of the total population.
Given that Nigeria's population was 173.6million in 2013 according to the world bank, the exact number of infected persons, according to the minister, would be a mind-boggling 43million. This disturbing information was made known when he was invited by the National assembly to defend the budget of the Federal Ministry of Health for the year 2016.
Addressing the house, the Minister revealed that Zika had been in Nigeria long before it became a matter of global worry. In his exact words;
“I want to say that Zika has been with us since 1954. About 25% of Nigerians are positive to Zika virus but what has happened is that it has done nothing to Also known as Zika Fever, the disease has been known to occur within a narrow equatorial belt from Africa to Asia since the 1950s. In 2014, though, the virus began to spread from one region to another at an alarming pace till it hit South America, where it has now reached pandemic Levels, especially in Brazil.
The virus usually comes with no or only mild symptoms.
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