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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Ebola: Epidemic looms in Lagos Mass Transit trains … as Nigerians shun second hand clothes’ markets

HATTIP NAWTYBITS


Concerns have been raised over a possible outbreak of Ebola epidemic aboard the Lagos Mass Transit Trains due to over overcrowding and congestion in the trains. This is even as operators of the second-hand clothes markets scattered nationwide have started lamenting drop in sales due to the fear that the virus is still very active on clothes worn by dead victims.
..The disease, according to research, needs just body contact with an infected person to cause its spread. The Ebola disease transmits through body fluids like sweat from one person to another.

....Inside the trains, employees of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) who check passenger tickets are made to go through congested human bodies to make sure they check everybody aboard the trains.

All the passengers on-board are seen covered by sweat because of the human congestion and the lack of ventilation inside the trains...[link to www.newsdirectonline.com]

Apart from NRC employees who navigate through congested human bodies to check passenger tickets, hawkers are also seen struggling through passengers’ bodies to ensure they make ends meet.