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Published on May 16, 2008
HEALTH SCARE: YEREVAN DISTRICT UNDER GUARD AGAINST UNKNOWN AILMENT
- Cases of typhoid registered in Yerevan’s South-Western district about a week ago created a panic situation among many in the community. According to a statement released by the Health Ministry on May 13, seven residents with a disease of unknown origin accompanied with fever had been hospitalized, two of them were diagnosed as having typhoid, or enteric fever. “Examinations of two other patients for diagnostic purposes are not yet completed. Complex preventive measures are being taken to identify and localize the source of infection,” the report says. Despite the fact that the Ministry mentions in its report that “the situation is under control” the source of officially yet unfound infection has given rise to rapidly spreading rumors and panic; and the sale of bottled water has grown dramatically. “Medical workers visited us and advised us to drink water after boiling it and be attentive to food if we have high temperature or observe suspicious symptoms, however we haven’t understood what was the cause of the breakout of the disease,” Mariam Galstyan, a resident of the district, told ArmeniaNow. According to Lilit Avetisyan, specialist of the Hygienic and Anti-Epidemic Inspection of the Health Ministry, typhoid is an intestinal contagion that penetrates the organism through the mouth cavity. “The disease is accompanied by high temperature, constipation or diarrhea, absence of appetite as well as ache in the abdomen,” Avetisyan says. Those asking anti-fever drugs at the district’s pharmacies were advised to see the doctor by all means. “That’s too bad,” one resident complains. “You never know what new disease will spread tomorrow. Garbage removal is done terribly, let alone old and damaged sewerage. It is not the first time that such cases are registered in this community.” In the “panic situation” the shops in the district have seen increased sales of bottled drinking water driven by speculation that the infection might have originated in consequence of potable and sewage waters mixing in the system. But recently specialists of both Yerevan Water Company and the Health Ministry gave assurances that “the problem is not in water” referring to the conclusions of molecular and biological examinations. “But in any case we have started to keep that zone under strict control, even though the water factor was excluded as a result of the analyses,” Yerevan Water Company secretary general Mane Mamyan said. Director of the Yerevan “Nork” infection hospital Ara Asoyan assures ArmeniaNow that water could not become a cause in this case. “Had water been at fault, we would have 200-300 patients today,” Asoyan tells ArmeniaNow. “As of now, one of the patients is receiving treatment at our hospital and his condition is better.” Asoyan says that the created panic is also the result of people having no elementary idea about the disease. “There is typhus, or spotted fever, which is very dangerous and people are afraid because they think that this one is that type of typhoid,” Asoyan says. “The matter concerns enteric fever, or typhoid, which is curable without side effects.” According to the Health Ministry, “control over water supply and the sanitary-technical condition of the sewage system has been stepped up in the district” and examinations are continuing. “Such a situation in that district was registered also last summer, we went there a thousand times,” Asoyan says. “And cases of typhoid were registered then as well. There is something that they cannot identify, and they must establish the cause.”
- Marianna Grigoryan
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