A statement signed by the Minister’s Chief Press Secretary, Joseph Mutah, said the speculation that salt and hot water solution cures the deadly viral disease is only a rumour.
Mr. Maku said there was no cure yet for the disease yet. He urged Nigerians to, however, maintain maximum environmental and personal hygiene to guard against contracting the deadly virus.
The social media late Thursday and early Friday went agog with information that salt and water could prevent infection by Ebola Virus.
A broadcast message sent via Blackberry Messenger, (BBM) reads: “We are asked to put some salt into hot water, drink little out of the water and use the one to bath, because of the Ebola disease”
Relatives from all parts of Nigeria called loved ones to take their bath with the new found solution to the disease.
Some explained further that the Federal Government was planning to spray a chemical which could prevent the virus from spreading, they said salt and hot water solution would serve as a proactive measure.
A housewife, Patience Enang, 36, said her husband, a soldier, called her at 5 a.m. from Kaduna and instructed her to bath their three children with the solution.
“I just finished bathing my children with hot water and salt and I go ‘baff’ now sef. My husband call me for morning around 5, he say hot water and salt is now a prevention for a Ebola,” Mrs. Enang said.
Mrs. Enang did not stop at bathing her own children with the solution, she went ahead to pass on her husband’s instruction to her neighbours out of love.
It was gathered that the rumour started from Kogi State, where it was said that the Attah of Igala declared that all Igala citizens around Nigeria should take their bath with hot water and salt.
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