Deterioration of 16-year-old`s health has nothing to do with  vaccination - minister 

ArmInfo The deteriorating health of a 16-year-old boy from Vanadzor is in no way related to vaccination, RA Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan stated.

It was previously reported that the boy developed health problems  some time after the vaccination. On October 6, he was taken to the  city medical center, from where, after some improvement in his  condition, he was airlifted to Yerevan. Doctors have preliminarily  diagnosed cerebral edema, sinus thrombosis, and subarachnoid  hemorrhage. The patient is in serious but stable condition and is  receiving the necessary treatment. Initially, it was reported that  the boy's deteriorating health was related to the vaccination.

In this regard, the minister noted that this message smacks of  disinformation. "The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia  published a publication in which he mentioned the areas most  vulnerable in terms of disinformation technologies.  Among these four  areas, of course, ours is healthcare. A recent example from today's  'information' field. Let's analyze the publication that caused  "likes" and "panic". The health status of a person transferred to a  medical institution is assessed without indicating or specifying an  official source, indirectly also disclosing medical confidentiality.  Without clarifying the circumstances and requesting information from  authorized persons, a vaccination given a week ago is mentioned.   From the description it follows that the parents "carried out  unprofessional home treatment" and, seeing that they could not  'cure', took the child to the hospital. The publication contains  disinformation, manipulation, emotional subtext and pursues one goal  - to undermine people's trust in vaccination and in the healthcare  functions carried out by the state as a whole. Meanwhile, at the  moment, a team of specialists, having comprehensively studied the  case, came to the conclusion that the diagnosis, the current course  of treatment, the chronology "Vaccinations and a history of previous  vaccinations are not considered a post-vaccination event. And what's  the point of our denials? The "hot" publication has carried out its  emotional disinformation terror... The only salvation is our  awareness and knowledge," noted Anait Avanesyan.