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In the near future Armenia will receive tests to diagnose coronavirus MERS
May 31, 20:56
In the near future Armenia will receive tests to diagnose coronavirus MERS, and all relevant staff of primary health care units and hospitals have been appropriate courses for the diagnosis and management of this disease. This NEWS.am Medicine Specialist said the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention Liana Torosian, responding to a question about whether Armenia is ready to confront this virus in light of the fact that the first cases already documented in neighboring Iran.
She said that in Iran coronavirus was imported from outside, and the most vulnerable country is Saudi Arabia. According to the specialist, WHO is not yet well defined source of infection, but its carrier are camels. "In Armenia, thank God, not bred camels," - she said. But there is another way of transmitting the virus - in close contact people.
This problem from last year is the focus of the Ministry of Health of Armenia, and in all areas, as well as in the capital with the relevant specialists have conducted training seminars that dealt not only with the coronavirus MERS, but also a new type of avian influenza H7N9. According to L. Torosian, Armenia has adequate laboratory facilities for PSR-diagnosis of avian influenza, and tests to determine MERS country will receive in the near future. At the same time the Ministry of Health updated stocks of Tamiflu, which is recommended by WHO for the treatment of coronavirus.
"In any case, we are alert, attention is paid to this issue, the doctors informed," - she said.
Recall that a few days ago in Iran were reported the first two cases of infection Middle East coronavirus MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome). The virus was detected in two women in Kerman province (south-east). Both women are in hospital, one of them is now in critical condition. All who have contact with sick lately, under the supervision of doctors. Where and under what circumstances, the two women became infected is unknown.
http://med.news.am/rus/news/2053/v-...estiy-dlya-diagnostiki-koronavirusa-mers.html
In the near future Armenia will receive tests to diagnose coronavirus MERS
May 31, 20:56
In the near future Armenia will receive tests to diagnose coronavirus MERS, and all relevant staff of primary health care units and hospitals have been appropriate courses for the diagnosis and management of this disease. This NEWS.am Medicine Specialist said the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention Liana Torosian, responding to a question about whether Armenia is ready to confront this virus in light of the fact that the first cases already documented in neighboring Iran.
She said that in Iran coronavirus was imported from outside, and the most vulnerable country is Saudi Arabia. According to the specialist, WHO is not yet well defined source of infection, but its carrier are camels. "In Armenia, thank God, not bred camels," - she said. But there is another way of transmitting the virus - in close contact people.
This problem from last year is the focus of the Ministry of Health of Armenia, and in all areas, as well as in the capital with the relevant specialists have conducted training seminars that dealt not only with the coronavirus MERS, but also a new type of avian influenza H7N9. According to L. Torosian, Armenia has adequate laboratory facilities for PSR-diagnosis of avian influenza, and tests to determine MERS country will receive in the near future. At the same time the Ministry of Health updated stocks of Tamiflu, which is recommended by WHO for the treatment of coronavirus.
"In any case, we are alert, attention is paid to this issue, the doctors informed," - she said.
Recall that a few days ago in Iran were reported the first two cases of infection Middle East coronavirus MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome). The virus was detected in two women in Kerman province (south-east). Both women are in hospital, one of them is now in critical condition. All who have contact with sick lately, under the supervision of doctors. Where and under what circumstances, the two women became infected is unknown.
http://med.news.am/rus/news/2053/v-...estiy-dlya-diagnostiki-koronavirusa-mers.html