1. [Establishment of the plague control system in Russia].
- Author
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Onishchenko GG, Monisov AA, Fedorov IuM, Kutyrev VV, and Kokushkin AM
- Subjects
- Animals, Communicable Disease Control organization & administration, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Humans, Plague prevention & control, Russia, Russia (Pre-1917), USSR, Communicable Disease Control history, Plague history
- Abstract
The specialized plague control facilities which began being founded as a system of institutions in Russia in 1897 have made a great contribution to epidemiological well-being against quarantine and particularly menacing diseases. The developmental stages of plague control service in different periods of the country's social life and its place in the general governmental preventive and antiepidemic measures are shown. The paper emphasizes that it is expedient to maintain the antiepidemic readiness of plaque control facilities due the fact that the epidemic situation is due menacing and zoonosis is expected to aggravate in the late 20th to the early 21st centuries.
- Published
- 1999