 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's time where we talk health this morning and we're looking at the outbreak of the Mabok virus. Now amidst coronavirus and monkeypox, the WHO has come from the presence of the highly infectious Mabok virus in Ghana. Now according to the World Health Organization, two unrelated people died after testing positive to Mabok in the southern Ashanti. The highly infectious disease is similar to Ebola and has no vaccine. Meanwhile in Nigeria, the Center for Disease Control, the Nigerian Center for Disease Control and CDC has declared the disease and epidemic emergence in the country following that outbreak and its dictation in West Africa. It also mentioned that both importation of the disease and its potential impact on Nigerian's population would be moderate. We have a medical practitioner joining the conversation this morning to make sense of all that's going on. Dr. Chisholm Mueke, it's good to have you join us. Dr. Chisholm. Dr. Chisholm Mueke. All right. What is the message? Dr. Chisholm, can you hear me? All right. So quickly, what do we need to know about this virus, the Mabok virus? Mabok virus is what we call a eurogist fever. Just like the Ebola. So, it's a type of primate, it's a type of human, it's a type of human contact. Lord, whether this is the kind of the kind of virus that I'm showing on social media. First, it's covered in jelly. And third, it's in 1967. And third, there's a couple of articles around the virus which hopefully come up in the future, when it's in parts of South Africa. All right, so we probably seem to be having, you know, some connection issue. Could barely hear you. I mean, I'm straining to hear you right here in the studio. But let's move on down. You're saying that there's some similarity with Ebola. Can you quickly tell us what the symptoms, you know, we should be looking out for, what symptoms are associated with the Mabok virus? Okay, like you said, it's a hemorrhagic fever. So, the symptoms are similar to Ebola, but it stands for the patients who have Mali, which is generalized for the illness, from pain, headache, chill, in the beginning phases, with medical progress, or that serious symptoms, which are certain of Mali disease, or that failure, shock, and eventually death. It's more of Mali disease. We also have, you know, a lot of thoughts, school of thoughts and medical practitioners saying that, with COVID-19 and the monkeypox, it's possible that this could have been a trigger to this virus that has been dictated or discovered, not necessarily discovered, but dictated in Ghana. Do you think that that's the case and are we likely to see more viruses? Well, it seems like there's an outbreak of different kinds of viruses. And I don't want to say that one is more important than the other. We all need to be a higher alert in order to be able to work out for these symptoms and fulfill them the things we have with our own outbreak in Nigeria. All right, then. So, we also look at, you know, how can we manage all of this despite the fact that we haven't really overcome or we still have to deal with COVID-19 and there's monkeypox, there's also Lassa fever, you have other issues. The Nigerian Center for Disease Control is very positive. They're saying that, you know, the impact would be on a very moderate level. Do you think that that's the case? Do you think that we are on top of our game in terms of all the viruses that we're faced with at a time, coupled with the Mabok virus? To be quite frank with you, more has to be done. I mean, if you set the trap right and we are able to do it, it has to be more. And not just it seems like people from Nigeria, people who are aware of the virus, especially health care providers, but in other places, the populace is not so aware. Even in the country COVID-19, a lot of people have dropped their guard and I feel like there's that feeling of when I rise up, I just want to see their life. I feel like health care will pass and other things will come to be useful. To keep educating the masses, to keep pushing out of this information, to keep explaining times and things from them in the trigger either. So what do you think will be our way and what do you think will be the future and what do you think will be the path to change? So, but let's get to a point where we talk about the prevention now. What can stakeholders do? The government is also on this table. You have the people. So what are the preventives now? Hi, can you give me the question again? So I'm saying that let's get to a point where we talk about how we can, you know, prevent this, the spread of the virus. There's been assurance from the Center for Disease Control. That's the Nigel Center for Disease Control. It talks about the fact that the impact will be moderate. And so what can stakeholders do? When we talk stakeholders, the government is not left out on the one hand and you also have the people. What exactly can we do to prevent the spread of this virus? That's what I'll say, education. Here's to say, education. You should stick to the word out there. It seems to do, advising them, informing them that information is power. Secondly, I'll say proper hygiene. Just like it's COVID with Ebola and so on, proper hand washing, proper sanitation. Because some of the mood of transfer, other than in the exact time, we have to keep our environment safe, you know, sanitary. Well, that's for the people now and how about the government? They're saying that there seem to be a lot of, you know, inspections or restrictions at the border level. Do you think that that will make any impact? Restriction at the level. At the border level. Yeah, that's very important because some of our officers from all the states have come from our African nations. From what I said earlier, the most likely in the Eastern Africa, as you know, we don't have to power border control. Things could be difficult from the look of things. So I'll say a proper border control matters not taking to the same picture and your general commitment to go to order to continue the spread of country. So with all of this, it's a grappling with, do you think that we probably might be faced with another lockdown? That's a coronavirus. We still have monkey parks. And there's also Lassafiva now and we're talking about the Mabok virus. Are we likely looking at a lockdown? Well, that's so much we can take this morning. Thank you so much, Dr. Chisomweke for being part of the show. We appreciate your time. The virus, it's outbreak and the tation in Ghana and the fact that the Nigerian government has a short Nigerians of the moderate impacts in terms of importation and the spread of it. Well, it's important that we do not neglect the non-pharmaceutical protocols that we have already. Hygiene is on top of the list. It's important. Be paranoid. We're washing your hands every other time. Wear no smacks as often as you can and protect yourself. And that's the only way we can stay safe. When we come back, we'll be looking at more interesting conversation right here. Please stay with us.