SCIENTIFIC - EPIDEMIOLOGY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600230203-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 203
• Publication Date: May 26, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELCTGME"AGENCY REPOR'
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Scientific . 'Epidemiology
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PUBLISHED Weekly newspaper
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PUBLISHED Moscow
11 May 1949
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Madl,tsioakip Rabotalk, No 19, 1949
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
In 1948, the number of iaalaria oases dropped 19.5 percent compared to
1947, and more than 28 percent compared to prewar figures. Best results
have been achieved in the Azerbaydzhan, Georgian, Armenian and Turkmen ate..
The USSR antiepidemiologieal service is closely connected with the Public
Health Service, and many of the reform measures put into effect. to improve
the Public Health Barrios were responsible for the noticeable decrease in the
number of malaria oases.
.A recent report submitted at the Moscow All-Union Conference on the
Control of Malaria, emphasized the need for a rapid elimination of this
disease. The antisalaria program mast not be a haphazard one but must be
planned as carefully as any major military campaign. Failure to plan properly
will only lead to setbacks, such as were experienced in the Dnepropetrovsk,
Stallnek and Zhitomir oblbe'.s of the Ukraine, and the Moldavian and lrarelo
Finnish SSRs?
The public health organizations of the Moldavian SSR are receiving much
aid from the Ministry of Public Health USSR; however the program Id not
succeeding as well as it should. Mach of the trouble is due to lack of
cooperation between local antimalaria stations and the antiepidemiological
centers in large cities.
Nevertheless mach is being accomplished. For e.ample In the city of
Kalinin a spacial. eduoational program 13 being organized. Malarial patients
are treated efficiently and effectively. Records of cases in 1943 show that
30 percent were hospitalized, while more than 95 percent were treated in
dispensaries. Results have been very gratifying. In 1948, the number of
malarial patients dropped by 26.6 percent. There was a 40 percent drop in
the industrial regions of the city.
Public health officials are attempting to introduce at comprehensive
antimalaria program which will not only decrease the number of malaria
patients, but will also reduce the number of days lost due to malaria.
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Rare each patient is stui:led as au individual, and paroo:ial trcatmert to
prescribed. After his release from dispensary, each patient is examined
once every 18-20 months.
Mach work is still necessary to improve the hospital network.
Particular attention must be given to increasing the agricultural therapeutic
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iaetitutioLo. Bispensariee should be equipped for handling tropic
'malaria patients as well as Patients afflicted vith'quartan malaria. The
guiding principle in all cases must be *No patient should be*disoharged
as long as blood test 'ndioates positive malarial reactions."
:hemicotbernpy is. aiding Soviet malaria fighters in their campaign.
Among their resources are such medical preparations as atabrine, plasmoold,
"bigumal" and atabrine sugar for children. However; these medicines alone
do not bring the desired result. Their use must be supplemented by large
scale elimination of breeding places o f chemalaria-transmitting mosquito.
The peoples of the USSR have, ad the antimalaria program enthusiastically.
A,ntimalaria stations in Altay Kray, Rostov Oblastare among the ',eat in
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the nation. The arm of antimalaria workers Is growing constantly, an
snaceeses in the past are any indication, malaria will soon be cbmpietely
eliminated in the U80.
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