We’ll all be in trouble if anthrax spreads like Covid, experts warn
MEDICAL experts have raised the alarm on the implications of allowing anthrax to spread like Coronavirus (COVID). The experts gave the warning at the 6th Biennial Professional Lecture organized by the Association of Science Laboratory Technologists of Nigeria, ASLTON, themed, ‘Pandemic Diseases: The Containment and Mitigation Role of a Science Laboratory Technologist’. Contributing, a Professor of Medical Microbiology and Medicine Biotechnology at the School of Medicine, University of Lagos, Marry-Theresa Niemogha, explained: “Anthrax is caused by Baselots anthracis and suggested that the country deploy the same method used in fighting Covid. “In other words, everybody has to be aware. People should know that if Anthrax spreads the way Covid did, we will all be in trouble. So we can use all the preventive methods explained by Professor Omilabu, including personal preventive measures like face masks and hand sanitisers, to prevent the spread from going to other people. “But we shouldn’...