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The Role of the Rostov-on-Don Science Research Anti-Plague Institute in Providing of Epidemiological Well-Being on the Territory of the South of USSR During the Years of The Great Patriotic War
Purpose: The article provides information about the contribution of the Rostov-on-Don Science Research Anti-Plague Institute's specialists in providing of epidemiological well-being on the territory of the south of USSR during the years of The Great Patriotic War.
Methods: The article presents the stages of the extensive work of the institute’s researchers in chronological and sequential order.
Results: Despite the small number of sources, due to memoir materials utilization, authors’ investigations enable to show institute’s scientists’ strong contribution into the outbreak and different communicable diseases control. As a part of the anti-epidemic teams institute’s specialists resolved the questions on prevention of transmission of the communicable diseases and on elimination of foci of highly infectious diseases in the country and in the army. The respond measures were concerned not only on the highly infectious diseases: plague, tularemia and cholera, but on the infectious jaundice, typhoid fever, spotted fever, dysentery and other communicable diseases. Science researchers and nursing staff gave medical treatment to the injured and sick men in hospitals and assisted in rehabilitation of the general health network and in providing of the medical assistance to the affected population. We have also mentioned the research work that lasted during the years of war. The studies were focused on the analysis of the experience in investigation and ratting activities of greater anti-epidemic importance, problems on elimination of epizooties in the natural foci of plague. As liquid vitelline (yolky) medium for tularemia microbe cultivation was obtained, on its basis there was developed the tularemia vaccine and the simple method of administration of this vaccine was proposed. Four volumes of scientific papers were published.
Methods: The article presents the stages of the extensive work of the institute’s researchers in chronological and sequential order.
Results: Despite the small number of sources, due to memoir materials utilization, authors’ investigations enable to show institute’s scientists’ strong contribution into the outbreak and different communicable diseases control. As a part of the anti-epidemic teams institute’s specialists resolved the questions on prevention of transmission of the communicable diseases and on elimination of foci of highly infectious diseases in the country and in the army. The respond measures were concerned not only on the highly infectious diseases: plague, tularemia and cholera, but on the infectious jaundice, typhoid fever, spotted fever, dysentery and other communicable diseases. Science researchers and nursing staff gave medical treatment to the injured and sick men in hospitals and assisted in rehabilitation of the general health network and in providing of the medical assistance to the affected population. We have also mentioned the research work that lasted during the years of war. The studies were focused on the analysis of the experience in investigation and ratting activities of greater anti-epidemic importance, problems on elimination of epizooties in the natural foci of plague. As liquid vitelline (yolky) medium for tularemia microbe cultivation was obtained, on its basis there was developed the tularemia vaccine and the simple method of administration of this vaccine was proposed. Four volumes of scientific papers were published.
specially dangerous diseases, plague, tularemia, epizootiology, antiepidemic interventions, direct control measures