Forecasting of the Epizootiological-Epidemiological Situation Development as Regards Anthrax Infection in the Flooded Territories (Amur River Basin and Its Feeders) in the Khabarovsk Region, as well as Jewish Autonomous, and the Amur Regions for 2014

• Main Authors: Z. F. Dugarzhapova, A. K. Noskov, L. M. Mikhailov, S. A. Kosilko, E. V. Kravets, S. V. Balakhonov, M. V. Chesnokova, L. I. Ivanov, O. P. Kurganova, V. A. Yanovich, V. A. Ott
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Federal Government Health Institution, Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe” 2014-03-01
• Series: Проблемы особо опасных инфекций
• Subjects: зона паводка; сибирская язва; стационарно неблагополучные по сибирской язве пункты; сибиреязвенные захоронения; чрезвычайная ситуация; high water areas; anthrax; potentially hazardous as regards anthrax territories; anthrax burial sites; emergency situation
• Online Access: https://journal.microbe.ru/jour/article/view/120

Anthrax animal burial sites and potentially hazardous as regards anthrax territories (PHT) of the three municipal entities in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD) were exposed to the Amur River flood (the Amur River basin, river inflows, and near-by territories), the emergency situation in August-September 2013. In order to estimate epizootiological-epidemiological situation on the infection carried out was retrospective analysis of morbidity rates among the population and the livestock animals of the region. Studied were the peculiarities of anthrax spatial distribution and sanitary conditions of PHT and animal burial sites (including anthrax ones). Laboratory investigations of soil and bone samples for the presence of Bacillus anthracis were conducted. Thus based on the results obtained the short-term forecast for epidemiological situation development in the post-flood period was worked out, and a complex of anti-anthrax actions was recommended.