HEARTH OF THE ILLNESS ERADICATED

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“I was the first person to discover the illness. I immediately aroused an alarm and informed the Ministry of Health. The representatives of the ministry immediately came, checked the information and found six cases of illness”, Gevorg Tovmasyan, village head of Tsovagyugh informed A1+. To remind, cases of tularemia were discovered in Tsovagyugh a week ago. Tularemia is a serious contagious disease passing via animals.

Currently there are ten bacilli-carriers in the village.

Ara Asopyan, the RA chief infectiologist and the director of the “Norq” infectious hospital, claims that the “the hearth of the disease is already eradicated” and the bacilli-carriers are not increasing. “The patients weren't even taken to hospital; they got treatment in their homes”.

Both the chief infectiologist and the village head exclude the possibility that the cause of the disease is water. Gevorg Tovmasyan says that only two bacilli-carriers are elderly people, the others are children.

This gave ground to assume that the hearth of the infection might be the school canteen. But it turned out that half of the patients didn’t attend the canteen. “The infection is spread through rodents which move from one settlement to another”, says the village head and adds, “Can you name any city where there aren’t rodents”.

To note, Tsovagyugh has got 4500 inhabitants. 2300 people have been inoculated.