Onishchenko, G.G., Grizhebovsky, G.M., Bryukhanova, G.D., Kovalchuk, I.V., Evchenko, Yu.M., Beier, A.P., Mezentsev, V.M., Savelyev, V.N., Efremenko, V.I.

Emergency situations in the North Caucasus and the role of specific immunoprophylaxis in the liquidation and prevention of their epidemiological consequences

Ministry of Health of the Russia, Institute for Plague Control, Center of State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance in the Stavropol Territory

Information on emergency situations (ES) on the territory of the North Caucasus from the 90s of the last century till the present moment is presented. The importance of the specific imunoprophylaxis of infections for the liquidation of epidemiological aggravations in ES and for their prevention is shown. Information on the scope of specific immunoprophylaxis in the zones of ES and on different approaches to its carrying out. The conclusion was made on the expediency of making corrections in the normative documents of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, regulationg pla

ed vaccinations and vaccinations made on epidemic indications in co

ection with different kinds of ES.
Zh.Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2003, No. 6, Supplement, P. 5—10