The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia warns that the bodies of the victims of the battlefield, who were left without care, pose an epidemic danger, including the outbreak of the plague.

It is noted that the damage to the water supply and drainage systems creates favorable conditions for the occurrence and spread of infectious intestinal diseases (cholera, hepatitis A, dysentery, etc.).

And corpses left on the battlefield can become a breeding ground for infectious diseases or wildlife insects that transmit infectious diseases or are a natural repository, and infectious, including particularly dangerous, pathogens can remain viable in the environment for long periods of time, creating all the preconditions for the outbreaks and epidemics.

Military action can increase the activity of outbreaks: increase the risk of infectious diseases transmitted by rodents (plague, tularemia, leptospirosis).

And the high mortality and infectivity of the plague makes it very conducive to causing mass infections.

Pollution of the environment, the reproduction of rodents that spread infectious diseases is a serious epidemic threat not only for the direct conflict, but also for their neighboring countries, in particular, Iran. The latter, taking into account the small distance between the countries, the geographical commonality, the presence of the Araks River, which is considered the most risky area, in terms of the spread of the infection by water to the settlements near the Araks.

It is stated that in case of outbreaks and epidemics during the hostilities, in the post-war period, the Azerbaijani side is responsible, as it has been continuously violating the requirements of the humanitarian ceasefire signed for the exchange of corpses since 10 October.