Armenia’s healthcare ministry urges citizens to be vaccinated against measles before departing for Ukraine

| 09:25 | July 13 2018

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During the past week 1021 measles cases have been registered in Ukraine. The total number of cases surpassed 25.000, more than half of which, nearly 15.000, are children. 12 death cases have been recorded due to measles, 8 of which are children.

Armenia’s healthcare ministry issued a statement in this regard, calling on the citizens to take into account the current situation in Ukraine while organizing their summer holidays and to be vaccinated against measles, stating that vaccination is the only secure and effective measure to prevent this infection.

“Only timely and completely implemented vaccinations (at least 2 doses) can prevent measles and possible complications caused by it”, the statement says.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS