Exchange of best practices
Synergy of actions for solving actual problems of diseases common to humans and animals
Students and teachers of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, led by the rector of the Stavropol State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V. I. Trukhachev took part in the II All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference under the chairmanship of the head of Rospotrebnadzor A.Yu. Popova.
The large-scale scientific forum "Actual problems of diseases common to humans and animals", which continued its work on April 5-6 in Stavropol under the auspices of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights and Human Welfare and Stavropol Anti-Plague Institute, gathered more than 220 participants. Among them are scientists and practical workers from various departments of the Russian Federation, including the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, representatives of executive authorities of the Russian Federation, as well as specialists from Azerbaijan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
As about 2 billion people die of infectious-parasitic diseases every year in the world, the participants discussed the scientific and practical problems of this group of diseases common to humans and animals. During the forum dangerous diseases of the world such as plague, brucellosis, anthrax, tularemia, viral haemorrhagic fever, etc. were discussed. Particular attention was paid to the organization of epidemiological surveillance under modern conditions, the introduction of innovative technologies for diagnosis and prevention of diseases, new information and communication technologies, analytical systems.
The speaker of the scientific and practical conference was the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation, Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Anna Y. Popova.
The importance of the topic of the forum was emphasized by Irina Vladimirovna Kuvaldina, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Stavropol Territory, who addressed the participants with a welcoming speech. In her opinion, success in achieving such important and ambitious goals is possible only with the consolidation of joint efforts.
A. Yu. Popova, the head of the Rospotrebnadzor reported in her speech about the "Epidemiological situation and the main directions of prevention of diseases common to man and animals in the Russian Federation”. The Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation made the most important accents on the most socially significant infection - the flu (another vaccination against which will start on October 15), as well as poliomyelitis, enterovirus infection, measles, hepatitis B, C and A, HIV infection, brucellosis, Classical and bubonic, rabies, foot and mouth disease, smallpox, yellow fever and Zik fever, measles, anthrax, tularemia. "Yes, we live in this reality, in a difficult political period. But even if there is a recession in the economy, it does not mean that people should be sick, "- stressed A. Popova and told the audience what measures had been taken "so that the infection does not clear up." After all, all the time there are new strains, for a number of diseases there is no good dynamics, although the outbreak can be extinguished, and the incidence of the disease can be restrained.
Deputy Director of the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Borovoy in his report gave a general idea of the spatial and geographical spread of diseases common to humans and animals. He stressed the tremendous volume of the country's veterinary services. Among the large range of animal diseases, the most significant for humans, the speaker identified cattle leukemia, with which the struggle is economically costly, brucellosis and nodular dermatitis. Nevertheless, the improvement of leukemic cows leads to optimization of the dairy herd and, in the end, to high milk yields. Among the problems that require immediate resolution, V.N. Borovoi called the mandatory registration of animals, which paradoxically causes resistance from the Ministry of Justice, but work in this direction will be continued by the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia.
Director of FBUN "SSC of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology" of Rospotrebnadzor (Obolensk, Moscow region) Ivan Alekseevich Dyatlov told the audience about modern technologies and laboratory diagnostics of zoonoses. At the same time Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor I.A. Dyatlov stressed that many of the newest technologies for monitoring biosafety are expensive (including sensors for online detection, chips for detection of pathogens, full genome sequencing, etc.), and up to $ 5 billion are allocated for these events in the US. The academician also expressed anxiety about the situation and his concerns about the resistance of viruses to antibiotics.
The report made by Alexander Nikolaevich Kulinchenko, Director of the Stavropol Anti-Plague Institute of the Stavropol Anti-Plague Institute, containing the most important information about the current epidemiological situation of the Siberian anthrax in the Russian Federation with suggestions on how to improve epidemiological surveillance was very interesting was. Colossal experience and real professional training, which was akin to heroism, was received by the Institute's employees last year on the Yamal peninsula, where anthrax bacteria for the first time in 75 years after thawing permafrost at an abnormal temperature above 35 degrees of heat killed dozens of people, including children. And a death loss of more than 2000 deer. The extraordinary situation was caused by the abolition in 2007 of mandatory vaccination against infection, when scientists did not find in the soil an anthrax controversy (there are fog huge fields with the remains of fallen deer on Yamal), and as a result, epidemic which was in 1941, repeated.
When the emergency situation was successfully resolved for one incubation, all the experience was transferred to the collective monograph "Anthrax on Yamal in 2016: peculiarities of the situation, new tasks" published by A. Yu. Popova and A. N. Kulchenko. The presentation of was the monograph was held during the conference. It was noted that although the world has a tendency to reduce this disease, however, the rising bioterrorism, heroin and other modes of transmission, climate change, the regions' low readiness for prompt response and the ability to heal make it necessary to "reset" the conceptual approaches and mobilize to the full.
During two days in the course of a major scientific forum, reports of practical scientists were made, a constructive exchange of their views took place, which gives hope to the society. Although the risks for the "breakthrough" of many infections common to people and animals are high enough, they will be minimized due to competent approaches, high technologies, the readiness № 1 of all services, because on guard of the health of Russians there is a a huge detachment of true professionals.
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During the conference, its participants - the director of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine (VIEV) named after Ya.R. Kovalenko, the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Ivanovich Gulyukin, and the deputy director of the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Nikolayevich Borovoy got acquainted with the material and technical base of Stavropol State Agrarian University, allowing to conduct research at the international level.
