10 EBSU Student Infected with Cholera After Eating African Salad (Abacha)

Not less than 10 students of Ebonyi State University, EBSU, Abakaliki, were last weekend hospitalized at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, FETHA, after eating African salad, popularly known as abacha.


The students, studying at the College of Agricultural Science, CAS campus of the university, were rushed to the hospital when their health condition started deteriorating as it was gathered that the delicacy was infected with cholera-causing bacteria.

Confirming the incident, the Director of Rural Health, Ministry of Health, Dr. Christian Achi, said that the food was infected from the activities of flies within the environment.

He said: “This is a case of cholera; the food they ate was already infected, following the activities of flies that go around perching on food items and dirty substances.