A Ghanaian Islamic cleric, Shamuna Ustaz Jibril,
known in the country for his predictions and interpretations, has linked
the Ebola pandemic to the consumption of carcasses.
He called on medical practitioner to look into the effects of the consumption of the carcasses of felines.
Based
on the cleric’s opinion, he disputed the fact that the deadly virus is
transmitted through handshake explaining that “it can be passed through
coughing and blood transfusion and therefore not by handshakes.”
Jibril
agreed that the disease has no cure for now but there are medicines
that can inhibit its spread and added that with time he would come up
with recommendations.
He chipped in a
precautionary method, that those who are suspected of the infection
should chew tobacco leaves or bitter leaves and drink honey.
To
doctors dealing with infected patients, he said, “They should inhale
tobacco leaves and wash their hands with ‘dawadawa’ solution followed by
the chewing of the ‘dawadawa’ seeds.
He also
advised those who washed dead bodies of the victims to put fresh tobacco
leaves and seeds into their mouths, ears and noses.
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