HEALTH MINISTER SAYS THE LABORATORY ANALYSIS CONFIRM THE HYPOTHESIS THAT INFECTION IN LORI PROVINCE SPREAD THROUGH WATER
ARMENPRESS
Oct 29, 2008
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 29, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Health Minister Harutyun
Kushkian told today journalists that according to today’s information
reduction of the number of patients has been regisetred in Lori,
the source of the infection is discovered and liquidated and the
process of infection has stopped.
According to the minister, the laboratory analysis confirm the
hypothesis of transition of the infection through water. Besides that,
the character of the disease testifies that it aroused from mixture
of pure and sewage waters which probably took place during an accident.
As connected with the hypothesis that the infection can spread through
Chinese milk powder, where the quantity of melamine overwhelmed, the
minister noted that from clinic viewpoint there is no similarity in
spread of the infection through that way.
The minister assured that all the necessary measures have been
effectively carried out and it brought to the reduction of number
of infected.