SITUATION IS STABLE
Azat Artsakh – Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)
06 March 05
Measles is spreading among the population of NKR. The epidemiologist
of the Republic Center for Hygiene and Epidemiological Control Karine
Balayan stated that currently the situation can be considered stable.
10-15 cases of measles are recorded daily. In the majority of
cases people above 14 are infected. Only a few cases of infection of
one-year-old babies were reported. People who were vaccinated in time
are chiefly safe from infection. According to Karine Balayan, there
were no fatal cases and complications. The illness is more spread in
the capital. By the way, the virus of measles is resistant to cold
therefore often happening in winter and in the beginning of spring.
K. Balayan mentioned that in the upcoming days the data will be
summed up and only then it will be possible to state whether measles
is receding or not.
LAURA GRIGORIAN.
06-03-2005