A/H1N1: No death cases recorded in Armenia

Aysor, Armenia
Nov 14 2009

A/H1N1: No death cases recorded in Armenia

Armenia’s chief virologist, Ara Asoyan called for the people to stop
the `aggressive races’ to the pharmacies. According to the information
of Aysor.am reporter, he has mentioned that `Tamiflu’ the medicine
against the influenza is recommended only in difficult cases, which is
not found in our country at the moment.

`The first step to undertake after starting the measures preventing
A/H1 N1 was informing the people about it, and we discovered the 11
sick citizens in t hat way’, – stated A. Asoyan and added `3 of them
have applied to hospital with the suspect of being infected by A/H1 N1
influenza, 3 more citizens found in the airport, which is speaking
about the people being informed.’

According to A. Asoyan he is getting many calls and the created
situation is reaching to psychos.

A. Asoyan informed that in abroad the 9% of those who died of A/H1 N1
actually died not because of the A/H1 N1 but because of the
complication of the state of the patient.

Today more than 503536 people are infected in the whole world and 6000
of them are dead. The dead cases are mainly recorded in the USA, in
Europe the dead cases have less percentage.

The number of the infected is 11 in Armenia 3 of them are cured and
the other 8 are under control of the doctors.