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HEARTH OF THE ILLNESS ERADICATED
[12:51 pm] 16 March, 2007

`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.

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