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Swine flu strain confirmed in Armenia - Ministry of Health
... has been confirmed in Armenia as a result of laboratory research within the framework of anti-epidemiological supervision, the Ministry of Health said today. YEREVAN, November 3. /ARKA/. The H1N1 subspecies of the A strain of influenza ("swine flu") has been confirmed in Armenia as a result of laboratory research within the framework of anti-epidemiological supervision, the Ministry of Health said today. It stressed that vaccination is the best way to prevent the spread of the disease, as well as to reduce the likelihood of its severe course. "All clinics, including /outpatient ones of the country and mobile vaccination centers are provided with vaccines against ...
11/03/2022No swine flu in Armenia, official says
An Armenian health ministry official has denied today media reports claiming that about 10 people in the country had “swine flu”. YEREVAN, January 8. /ARKA/. An Armenian health ministry official has denied today media reports claiming that about 10 people in the country had “swine flu”. Fears in Armenia have been prompted by reports from the neighboring Georgia ...
01/08/2019Armenia’s State Food Safety Service bans import of meat products from Russia and some other countries
Armenia’s State Food Safety Service said today it has imposed temporary restrictions on import of meat products from Russia and some other countries to prevent African swine fever and bird flu from entering the country. YEREVAN, December 14. /ARKA/. Armenia’s State Food Safety Service said today it has imposed temporary restrictions on import of meat products from Russia and some other countries to prevent African swine fever and bird flu from entering the country. In particular, on December...
12/14/2018Flu rate up in Armenia now – chief infectious disease specialist
... became widespread because of season factors and frequent contacts among people. In his words, although the number of patients has grown over the last weeks, but things are not dangerous, and there is no need to close schools. He said there are several swine flu cases in the country, but this disease is now spreading so far. Asoyan also said that people are wrong in thinking that snow could drive the sickness rate down. There are no scientific conclusions that snow strikes at the disease, but figures ...
01/15/2018Some 230 people released from hospitals in Armenia after recovering from acute respiratory diseases
... diagnosed to have pneumonia. The permanent monitoring of the situation with acute respiratory diseases and influenza shows the situation is stable with severe cases of the disease tending to decrease, the ministry said. Eighteen people have died from H1N1 swine flu in Armenia in the last two months, the country's health ministry said on Thursday, but it said also there was no risk of a mass outbreak.-0-
01/22/2016Health ministry asks education minister to extend school holidays for another week
... the ministry of education, the ministry of territorial administration and emergency situations and the Yerevan municipality to extend winter holidays for secondary and vocational schools as well as pre-school institutions for another week. The deadly swine flu has caused 18 deaths in Armenia. According to the ministry of health, as of January 18 there were still 982 people with acute respiratory diseases in hospitals, while the number of children declined from 1,066 to 890, and out of 124 pregnant ...
01/21/2016Deadly swine flu has killed 18 people in Armenia
The deadly swine flu has caused 18 deaths in Armenia, health minister Armen Muradyan said today, adding that these people suffered also from other chronic diseases. YEREVAN, January 20. / ARKA /. The deadly swine flu has caused 18 deaths in Armenia, health ...
01/20/2016Not a single child death in Armenia directly caused by H1N1
Not a single child death in Armenia has been directly caused by H1N1 (swine flu), Sergey Sargsyan, the chief pediatrician at the Armenian health ministry, said on Monday. YEREVAN, January 19. /ARKA/. Not a single child death in Armenia has been directly caused by H1N1 (swine flu), Sergey Sargsyan, the chief pediatrician ...
01/19/2016Two more deaths from swine flu reported by Armenian health authorities
Two more people have died in Armenia today from H1N1 virus subtype (swine flu), despite the doctors' ten-day efforts to save their lives, the ministry of health reported. The latest deaths have raised the death toll from the disease to 16. YEREVAN, January 18. / ARKA /. Two more people have died in Armenia today ...
01/18/2016About 700 people released from Armenian hospitals over past five days after recovering from acute respiratory diseases
... children and youngsters below 18, an official representative of the health ministry Anahit Haytayan wrote on her page in Facebook. According to her, 241 of them had been diagnosed to have pneumonia. Haytayan also reported that 15 people with H1N1 virus (swine flu) were removed from intensive care units to hospital rooms. The death tool from swine flu rose last week to 14. They all suffered from other chronic diseases and were said to have died from complications caused by H1N1 virus. -0-
01/18/2016Polling center head says quarantine must be imposed if situation with swine flu worsens
Head of an Armenian polling center said today the authorities will have to impose quarantine if the situation with swine flu worsens. YEREVAN, January 15. /ARKA/. Head of an Armenian polling center said today the authorities will have to impose quarantine if the situation with swine flu worsens. Speaking to a news conference, Aharon Adibekyan, head of Sociometer ...
01/15/2016Improvement of Armenia’s environment is key for effective struggle against swine flu virus, environmentalist says
Improvement of Armenia’s environment is a key condition for effective struggle against swine flu virus, Karine Danielyan, the president of the Association for Sustainable Human Development, said today. YEREVAN, January 15. /ARKA/. Improvement of Armenia’s environment is a key condition for effective struggle against swine flu virus,...
01/15/2016Armenia’s health minister says there is no swine flu epidemic
Armenia's health minister Armen Muradyan has denied today allegations of swine flu epidemic saying epidemic is a situation when the number of cases exceeds the norm by 4-5 times, while the rate in Armenia now is 1.5 times. YEREVAN, January 14. /ARKA/. Armenia's health minister Armen Muradyan has denied today allegations ...
01/14/2016Winter school break in Armenia prolonged for another week
Winter school break in Armenia was prolonged today for another week, until January 25, because of a swine flu outbreak, Armenian Education Minister Armen Ashotyan reported on his official page in Facebook. YEREVAN, January 14. /ARKA/. Winter school break in Armenia was prolonged today for another week, until January 25, because of a swine flu ...
01/14/2016Already 11 killed by H1N1 virus in Armenia
The number of people killed by H1N1 virus (‘swine flu’) in Armenia has reached 11. YEREVAN, January 14. /ARKA/. The number of people killed by H1N1 virus (‘swine flu’) in Armenia has reached 11. “Yesterday Astghik Manvelyan, 57, died in Erebuni Medical Center from complications caused ...
01/14/2016Other two deaths from H1N1 virus in Armenia
... January 13. /ARKA/. Other two H1N1-caused deaths were reported Wednesday in Armenia, according to Novosti-Armenia. “Rafik Vardanyan, 50, died definitely from H1N1 and Araksia Danielyan, a woman that recently gave birth to a baby, died probably from swine flu,” Arthur Tigranyan a doctor at Saint Grigor Lusavoprich Medical Center is quoted by the news agency as saying. In his words, they suffered from no other diseases. According to the official data received, there were 799 patients with acute ...
01/13/2016Rumor denied – a three-year-old kid in Armenia not infected by H1N1 virus
... Novosti-Armenia reports referring to Professor Nikolay Dallakyan, the head of Sourb Astvatsamayr medical center. The boy was brought to the medical center with brain concussion. Some media outlets have reported that he had been diagnosed with so-called swine flu. Dallakyan said the rumor is groundless. «The kid is connected to an artificial respirator because of a head injury, and his state is critical but stable,» he said. According to the official data received, there were 799 patients with acute ...
01/13/2016School holidays may be prolonged for another week because of flu
... for another week,' said Asoyan. The education and science ministry had earlier extended winter holidays from 11 to 18 January at the request of the health minister Armen Muradyan. On January 11, 170 people were confirmed to have H1N1 virus subtype (swine flu). The death toll from the deadly disease has risen today to seven people. The latest victim was a woman who died at Erebuni medical center in Yerevan.-0-
01/12/2016Three cases of swine flu reported in Nagorno-Karabakh
Three cases of swine flu were reported by the health authorities in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). The local health ministry said in a statement that three samples of the virus, sent to the virology laboratory of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention ...
01/12/2016Some 850 people in Armenia hospitalized with symptoms of acute respiratory diseases
... epidemiological situation in the country is being tightly controlled by health authorities, Deputy Health Minister Vahan Poghosyan said on Monday. According to him, laboratory tests confirmed that 170 of these patients were infected with H1N1 virus subtype (swine flu). The deputy minister said that currently 77 patients, including those with symptoms of acute respiratory disease, influenza and pneumonia were being treated in intensive care units and the condition of 11 of them was extremely grave. He added ...
01/12/2016Death toll from swine flu in Armenia rises to six
Six people in Armenia have died of H1N1 swine flu virus, Anahit Haytayan, a representative of the ministry of health, said today. She said thee people had died in December last year and the other three this year. YEREVAN, January 11. /ARKA/. Six people in Armenia have died of H1N1 swine ...
01/11/2016Three people in Armenia died of swine flu
Three people in Armenia died of influenza caused by H1N1 virus subtype (swine flu), the ministry of health reported today. YEREVAN, January 8. /ARKA/. Three people in Armenia died of influenza caused by H1N1 virus subtype (swine flu), the ministry of health reported today. It said that in two cases, the deaths were caused ...
01/08/2016Winter school holidays in Armenia extended until January 18
... schools winter holidays until January 18. According to health authorities, the number of reported cases of acute respiratory diseases has surged and some 515 people, 126 with pneumonia were hospitalized and dozens of cases caused by H1N1 virus subtype (swine flu) were registered also. Writing in Facebook education minister Ashotyan said to fill the gap the schools will be asked to conduct extra classes. In a related development defense minister Seyran Ohanyan told the prime minister during a meeting ...
01/08/2016Twenty-seven cases of swine flu reported in Armenia
Twenty-seven cases of influenza caused by H1N1 virus subtype (swine flu) were reported to Armenian health authorities in the last few days, health minister Armen Muradyan said earlier this week. YEREVAN, January 8. /ARKA/. Twenty-seven cases of influenza caused by H1N1 virus subtype (swine flu) were reported ...
01/08/2016No reason for concern, chief Armenian infectiologist says
... reporters today. YEREVAN, December 21. /ARKA/. The number of reported cases of influenza and acute respiratory diseases in Armenia give no reason for concern, the chief infectiologist, Ara Asoyan, said to reporters today. He said three cases of swine flu were reported so far, despite the spread of the disease in neighboring Iran. He said the symptoms of swine and ordinary flues are almost identical. "Severe cases of infectious diseases have not been recorded in Armenia so far. The situation ...
12/21/2015Three cases of swine flu reported in Armenia
Three cases of swine flu were reported to Armenian health authorities, the ministry of health said today. YEREVAN, December 15. /ARKA/. Three cases of swine flu were reported to Armenian health authorities, the ministry of health said today. According to the ministry,...
12/15/2015Armenian Ministry of Health: the state will define the highest level of medicament prices in Armenia
... defined in Armenia, said Harutyun Kushkyan, Armenian Minister of Health. Such a decision is conditioned by the necessity of policy exchange in the sphere of medicament regulation, particularly the situation in Armenia when due to the threat of “swine flu” a number of companies in Armenia increased prices of some medicaments without permission. “Adoption of restrictions by the government will allow to regulate the situation in medicament market and define the most available prices”,...
05/26/2010In Armenia reduction of flu dissemination was registered during the last two days – expert
... of following the norms of security and hygiene, the danger of infection can be significantly reduced. Vahan Poghosyan, Head of Organization of Healthcare department said that in Armenia measures are undertaken for helping the patients having A/H1N1 (swine flu), as well as for further prevention of virus dissemination. Poghosyan said that any patient can get the medicament “Tamiflu” by the prescription of the doctor. -0-
12/11/2009Armenia has avoided so far swine flu cases
Armenian health minister Harutyun Kushkian said today no cases of swine flue have been reported in the country. Speaking to journalist he said health authorities have taken all precautionary measures to ward off penetration of the disease into Armenia. YEREVAN, November 4, /ARKA/. Armenian health minister Harutyun ...
11/05/2009All tourists arriving in Armenia examined for swine flu
All tourists arriving in Armenia are examined for A/H1N1 swine flu, said Liana Torosyan, Chief Expert of Sanitary and Epidemiologic Inspectorate, Armenian Ministry of Healthcare. YEREVAN, July 31. /ARKA/. All tourists arriving in Armenia are examined for A/H1N1 swine flu, said Liana Torosyan, Chief Expert ...
07/31/2009Armenia to take all necessary measures to ward off swine flu
Armenian Government intends to take all necessary measures to lessen risks of swine flu epidemic, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said at Thursday’s governmental meeting. YEREVAN, April 30. /ARKA/. Armenian Government intends to take all necessary measures to lessen risks of swine flu epidemic, Armenian Prime Minister ...
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