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Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
THE Zimbabwean quartet playing for CS Don Bosco in the Democratic Republic of Congo and their counterparts have been forced to live on a fish diet following the outbreak of Ebola.
Carrington Gomba, Darlyn Nyandoro, Ali Sadiki and Chris Samakweri have been told to stop eating meat but instead live on fish.
Another Zimbabwean player plying his trade in the DRC, Obert Moyo is still in Hwange and yet to return to the Central African country.
“It’s scary yes but the outbreak has not reached our province, we have been told though to stop buying meat but instead buy fish only,” said the former Hwange and Dynamos midfield enforcer.

Gomba said he was not sure whether their matches will be stopped once the season begins as they are currently on a pre-season training.
Ebola symptoms, which manifest between two to 21 days after infection, include fever, muscle pain, headache and a sore throat followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function and in some cases both internal and external bleeding.

In the worst outbreak of the haemorrhagic Ebola fever on record, the disease has killed 1,426 of the 2,615 people who have contracted the virus in West Africa, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

It has also been detected in countries like the DRC, Nigeria and Senegal.