Tweet
Alerthttp://promedmail.org/pls/apex/f?p=2..._ID:1090,82858
Russian to English translationShow romanization
Archive Number 20100522.115332
Published Date 22-MAY-2010
Subject PRO / RUS> outbreak of pneumonia - Russia (Sverdlovsk region)
Outbreak of pneumonia - Russia (Sverdlovsk region)
*************************************************
Date: May 22, 2010
From: ProMED-mail Cor WM
Source: IA: ?utro.ru?, May 21, 2010 [Moderator NP]
Russian army attacked pneumonia
-------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
Severe pneumonia epidemic is gaining momentum in Biisk (Altai Territory). According to the publication Lifenews.Ru, infectious inflammation of the lungs is distributed in a military town Motorized part number 31466. During the first half of May in the central hospital of Biisk sent 30 troops. Approximately the same number are in the army medical unit. According to the publication, in the arrangement of working military epidemiologists, which shows the seriousness of the situation. The soldiers continued to be infected: as told managing Biisk therapy department at the hospital over the past three days in the clinic has received nine people. Patients are placed not only therapeutic, but also in other offices, and hospital beds for them is not enough.
According to the official version, announced by the military prosecutor, Colonel Konstantin Biysk garrison Lepekhin, pneumonia, was brought in part by two new recruits. According to seniors, those profits from Buryatia. Lepekhin also noted that, in violation of sanitary norms, and soldiers live too crowded. To disciplinary charges brought against four officers of the number 31466, the commander of 41 Army, Major-General Sergei Istrakovu cautioned.
Evidence of the military at odds with the conclusions of the prosecutor's office. The soldiers claim that the cause of the disease were the conditions under which they engage in physical training: morning exercises carried out in jackets, as a result of the soldiers sweat a lot and getting aired in the barracks, where there is no hot water, supercooled. According to them, the real incidence in parts is much higher than official figures - the infection has spread not only in the barracks, but also in the tents where the soldiers live well.
The seriousness of the situation indicated by the fact that the May 17 board of health banned Biisk central hospital staff to comment on the status of patients with recruits.
[Comment Cor. VM. In the Altai Territory recorded outbreak of pneumonia among military personnel. Such outbreaks every year in winter time are recorded in the military units of the Russian army. Such outbreaks of fatal occurred in the Sverdlovsk region in December 2009 (20090121.59881) - 1, and died in 2007 (20070729.10759) - 3 dead. In 2007, the causes of the disease were associated with vaccination against influenza and pneumococcal disease, as well as poor conditions of stay of troops in barracks and pereohlazhenii them when practicing on the parade ground in 2009, any clear-cut official cause of the outbreak was not named. Why is the outbreak of pneumonia in May 2010 is not yet clear, but among the reasons cited are subhuman conditions in which soldiers live and study - overcrowding, drafts, lack of basic amenities, including hot water, and living in cold tents .- Cor VM]