LAGOS, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- A yet-to-be-verified disease has claimed three people in northwest Nigeria's Sokoto State, an official said Wednesday.
The three showed symptoms of severe headache, convulsion and bleeding from the eye, Abbas Aliyu, a deputy director in the state ministry of health, told reporters in Sokoto.
Preliminary investigation conducted by some doctors suspected malaria as the cause for the deaths, he said.
He regretted that no sample was extracted from all the deaths as they were buried the same day of their death, adding that no more such case had been reported so far.
The director said similar incidents were recorded last year and affected victims were diagnosed with viral hemorrhage fever, which required high degree of treatment. Enditem
