Daily mail || Ethiopians are bleeding from their noses and mouths before dropping dead in a mystery sickness – which has been blamed on toxic waste from Chinese oil drilling.
The sickness, which has allegedly spread through villages near a gas project in Somali, is also reported to turn its victims’ eyes yellow, before causing a fever, swelling across the body and ultimately death.
Other symptoms of the unidentified illness include yellowing palms, a lack of appetite and sleeplessness. Officials in Addis Ababa have denied allegations of a health and environmental crisis in the region, the Guardian reported.
It is also unclear what is causing the sickness, though many are suspicious it is caused by apparent chemical waste which has poisoned the region’s water supply.
‘It is the toxins that flow in the rainfall from Calub [gas field] that are responsible for this epidemic,’ victim Khadar Abdi Abdullahi said.
Mr Abdullahi, 23, from Jigjiga, was discharged from hospital when doctors told him there was nothing more they could do when he fell ill. He later died.
