The two days old disease has four of its victims killed in Rukuba/Bassa and two in Jos metropolis. The case in Jos North involved a 61-year-old caterer who was said to have complained of stooling and vomiting, symptoms peculiar to cholera, was taken to the hospital and died on Wednesday morning.
The Deputy Director, Epidemiology in the state Ministry of Health and state epidemiologist, Dr. Raymond Juryit, who confirmed the incidents, the case in Jos metropolis involved a family.
According to him, a woman was sick of diarrhoea and was admitted in the hospital and she died the following day. In the course of preparing food for the funeral, some members of the family developed the same symptoms. We cannot conclude now that it is cholera because we have taken the samples and those with the symptoms have been admitted at Plateau Specialist Hospital. The samples were being analysed, but we cannot wait for the result before we start treating them. We are suspecting cholera and have put them on that routine, but the full confirmation will come with the results."
