ANTHRAX IN THE ASIAN PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. COMMUNICATION 2. UP-TO-DATE EPIZOOTIOLOGICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION IN SIBERIA AND AT THE FAR EAST (1985–2016)

• Published in: Problems of Particularly Dangerous Infections
• Main Authors: Z. F. Dugarzhapova, M. V. Chesnokova, E. G. Goldapel, S. A. Kosilko, S. V. Balakhonov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Federal Government Health Institution, Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe” 2017
• Subjects: anthrax; bacillus anthracis; stationary hazardous as regards anthrax point (shap); Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; nenets; Yamalo Nenets; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21055/0370-1069-2017-1-59-64; https://doaj.org/article/b980bd6c0fcc481187b7370f45257a57

7201 stationary hazardous as regards anthrax points (SHAP) and 557 anthrax burial places are registered in Siberia and the Far East. Epizootiological and epidemiological situation for anthrax in the Asian part of the Russian Federation is characterized at present by uneven geographical distribution and predominance of old non-manifested shaps (98.9 %), and epizootic outbreaks with epidemic complications (82.5 %). In the Siberian Far North and four southern areas of the region it remains hazardous. Reduction of livestock population in 1990s lead to agricultural animals morbidity decline, thus morbidity among deers dominated (80.2). Sporadic pattern of the epidemic process was observed. The majority of patients were unvaccinated rural population (97.5 %), males (77.5 %), ablebodied citizens infected during constrained slaughtering (90.5 %). Meat and meat products were main transmission factors (96.4 %). Cutaneous anthrax prevailed. Anthrax outbreak in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District in 2016 outlined the necessity of effective interdepartmental interaction and optimization of normative regulation on disposal of fallen cattle and condition of anthrax burial places.