Over much of the last week an unidentified diseases has been ravaging the people of Ode-Orele in the Ondo State of Nigeria. The disease left its victims with blurred vision and headaches, unconsciousness, and then subsequently death- all within 24 hours.
It sparked fears of another viral outbreak, after Ebola hit Nigeria last year, albeit minimally. The swiftness of the infection made people start attributing all sorts of reasons for the outbreak.
Some tests were carried out, and according to the BBC, the current hypotheses is that herbicides were the cause of the outbreak. The tests, carried out by WHO, ruled out any bacterial or viral infection and that pesticide poisoning was the far more likely outcome.