BIRD FLU LESS PROBABLE IN ARMENIA
By Nana Petrosian

AZG Armenian Daily #187
18/10/2005

Healthcare

No Cases Registered Till Today

This is the time of the year that birds leave Armenia for warmer
countries thus diminishing the probability of bird flu in the
republic. Yet, Vartan Ayvazyan, ecology minister of Armenia, warned
the hunters to give up their hobby for a while.

Healthcare minister Norayr Davidian informed that the Ministry
receives weekly information on the bird flu for the ire region and
takes measures to suppress any case of the flu. The officials in the
Ministry are trying to acquire appropriate vaccines.

The minister said that there was an epidemic of bird flu back in 1918
that took the life of 50 million people.