Onishchenko, G.G., Petryuk, V.A., Stepanova, S.N., Solomashchenko, N.I.

Prophylaxis of acute enteric infections and viral hepatitis A at the period of emergency situation on the territory of the Karachai-Chercassian Republic

Center of State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance in the Karachai-Chercassian Republic, Cherkessk

Information on the scope of destructions caused by the high flood, on the sanitary and hygienic situation on the affected territories of the Karachai-Chercassian Republic is given. Materials on the organization and realization of prophylactic measures on the territory of the Karachai-Chercassian Republic at the period the natural calamity, under the conditions of a high risk of the appearance of an outbreak of enteric infections and viral hepatitis A are presented. In these materials the main trends of the work are pointed out; due to the timely taken and effectively carried out measures on the antiepidemic protection of the population, the sanitary and epidemiological service was shown to prevent the aggravation of the epidemiological situation in the republic.
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2003, No. 6, Supplement, P. 89—91