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‘A coordinated work must be organized against Siberian plague, since both animals and people get infected with this disease: the disease can be passed from animals to people’ said the Head of the National Hygiene and Anti-Epidemiological Surveillance Inspectorate of the RA Ministry of Healthcare Artavazd Vanyan during the meeting with the journalists today.

The first case of Siberian plague was reported on October 16 in Yerevan and later it was revealed that the meet transported to Yerevan from Vardenis area was infected with Siberian virus.

‘During the yard visits organized until today 51 people were identified with the suspicion of Siberian plague, 8 out of whom were confirmed to have the Siberian virus’ said. A. Vanyan, adding that all 8 patients have now recovered and have left the hospital.

As A. Vanyan says the reported cases concern the skin type of Siberian plague, which is not a serious threat to a human’s health and what is most important, does not pass from person to person.

‘At this moment there are 5 hospitalized people in the infection department of the Martouni prophylactic institution, the last one was hospitalized yesterday’ said. A. Vanyan, adding that the condition of the patients was qualified as satisfactory.