ARMENIA: NO PROOF SWINE FLU IS GETTING DEADLY
Aysor
Nov 12 2009
Armenia
There is not a single swine-flu related death in Armenia, told Aysor’s
correspondent Assistant of Armenia’s Minister of Health, Shushan
Unanyan. She said there is the sixth case of swine flu registered in
Armenia. The infecting patient is a Turkish citizen who recently came
from Istanbul.
"As soon as it was found he has an A/H1N1 virus, he was immediately
transported from International Zvartnots airport to Nork’s hospital,"
Shushan Unanyan said adding that two of six patients will probably
discharge from the hospital soon as "it is on schedule to make a
complete recovery from this type of flu just in some days".
"Swine-flu related deaths happen when patients had any chronic disease
or complicated disease. There are more deaths among people after they
caught seasonal influenza than swine-flu related deaths."
Armenia’s Minister of Health, Harutyun Kushkyan, is holding an
operative meeting with Chief of the State Epidemiological Control
Service, Artavazd Vanyan, specialists in this field, and Artavazd
Vanyan’s deputies.