Two cases of whooping cough have been recorded in Vandzor, the third largest city of Armenia. One of the ill is a pregnant woman, the other being her 7-year-old son.

According to Anzhela Hovhannisyan, the Director of the Lori branch of the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the disease was passed on the mother from his child, since the latter wasn’t been inoculated.

“The parents had refused to inoculate the child, as a result of which the child got a whooping cough. And because the infection is airborne, the mother was also contaminated from the child,” she told Armenian News – NEWS.am.

In Hovhannisyan’s words, there is a threat that the pregnant woman may lose her baby.  The latter is now under the doctors’ control. This is the first case of whooping cough in Lori in the recent years, the Director concluded.