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16 August 2013 [09:23] - Today.Az
The number of victims of animal bites has decreased in Azerbaijan. Some 8,404 people suffered from animal bites in January to June, 2013.
"Roughly 9,188 people suffered from animal bites in the same period of last year," Department head of the epidemiology of infectious and special dangerous infectious diseases of the Republican Anti-Plague Station, Ph.D in medicine (MD) Rita Ismayilova said.
According to Ismayilova, reduction in the number of such cases suggests increase of public awareness of the issue.
Read more about it in AZERNEWS online newspaper’s print edition published on Aug.16. Also, in the new edition you can read articles about the details of official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Azerbaijan, the meeting of foreign ministers of the member countries of Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (CCTS) in Gabala, possibility of starting negotiations on the Azerbaijan-EU air space agreement, presentation of the Azerbaijani movies in Brazil and others.
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