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FBIS3-41550_0 | Kampong Chhnang Forest Cover Disappearing | Language: Cambodian Article Type:CSO [Text] At the present time, people in Kompong Chhnang Province do not have timber resources to live off. The forests in this province can only provide firewood. And now, even the firewood is disappearing. Nearly one-half of the population of the province had made a living by cutting... |
FBIS3-41575_0 | Deputy Prime Minister Warns of `New Threats' to Ozone | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Deputy Prime Minister Amnuai Wirawan yesterday called for the establishment of more ozone observation stations in developing countries. Mr. Amnuai, addressing the opening of the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Oz... |
FBIS3-41576_0 | Toxic Waste Laws `Ineffective' | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Text] Three laws intended to govern the use and disposal of hazardous waste have been rendered ineffective because the list of restricted chemicals has yet to be completed, the House standing committee on the environment learned yesterday. Experts who testified before the committee s... |
FBIS3-41580_0 | Symposium Held on Effects of Vietnam War Defoliants | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hanoi VNA, Nov 20 -- The Vietnamese president has conferred `friendship' medals on American Prof. Arnold Schecter of Syracuse University in New York, the United States, and Doctor Miura Hiroshi, vice president of the Vietnam-Japan Medical Exchange Centre, for their studies of t... |
FBIS3-41586_2 | Report on Current State of Slovak Environment | society to talk about a dangerous invisible killer. Are we doing it out of indifference or out of ignorance? A system in which truth about the environment of this or that region is suppressed may be something we have become accustomed to, but adding to it is also another deficiency, which is the ignorance of representa... |
FBIS3-41586_8 | Report on Current State of Slovak Environment | one is around, owners of those wheeled homes rarely hesitate.... An Austrian would not do such a thing, and thereby evidently shows his patriotism. There is a great shortage of sewage treatment plants, even though more are under construction. We need many more of them, also because surface waters especially are greatly... |
FBIS3-41588_0 | Experts Urge Banning Toxic Waste Imports to Latin America | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Experts from 22 countries of our continent, who are participating in the meeting called for by the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), approved in Santiago on 18 November a recommendation that their governments impleme... |
FBIS3-41593_0 | Environmental Protection Bill Outlined | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Commentary by Nicaraguan Environmental Movement Executive Director Pedro Gamboa] [Text] The increasing environmental deterioration of Nicaragua's natural resources and the severe water and soil pollution caused by the irrational use of pesticides and indiscriminate discharge of toxic... |
FBIS3-41604_1 | Baltic Fleet Official on Ecological Situation in Region | of waste from such ships is forbidden within a 200-mile coast zone. In my opinion, the solution to this issue is the construction of a purifying station. It should be built in Baltiysk where most of our ships are stationed. The collectors of oil products and waste which are at our disposal do not meet our demands. In a... |
FBIS3-41612_0 | Moscow River `Dangerous to Life' Due to Pollution | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [From the ``Vesti'' newscast] [Text] The results have been summed up of two years' work on a program for the comprehensive inspection of the water route of the Moscow River within the city's boundaries. After receiving the results of the analysis of the water and its inhabitants, rese... |
FBIS3-41615_0 | Finnish Nuclear Waste Delivered to Chelyabinsk-65 | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Text] Twenty-five tonnes of nuclear fuel waste have been sent to Chelyabinsk-65 by the Finnish company Imatran Voima OY. This is the 11th delivery of the deadly freight from the company engaged in nuclear waste disposal. The Mayak production association has already received 200 tonne... |
FBIS3-41626_0 | Military, Defense Industry Environmental Record Examined | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Andrey Bayduzhiy: ``The Army and VPK Enterprises Exploited Nature over the Decades Without Control: The Situation Might Change after Approval of the Edict of the President of Russia on the Establishment of Ministry of Defense Ecological Subunits''] [Text] The recent discha... |
FBIS3-41627_0 | Navy Nuclear Safety Department Head on Nuclear Dumping | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The commander in chief of Russia's Navy has set up a department charged with assuring the safety of vessels with nuclear power installations. The head of this department, Commodore Viktor (Sakharov) told us about the recent dumping of some of the Pacific Fleet's radioactive was... |
FBIS3-41632_0 | Reservoir Poses Threat to 50,000 Persons | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [From the ``Vesti'' newscast: Video report from Kazakhstan by A. Svyazin and A. Kondrashov, identified by caption] [Text] [Svyazin over video of warning sign followed by effluent canal] At the beginning of the seventies two reservoirs for collecting effluent from the Kazakh capital an... |
FBIS3-41633_0 | Environmentalists Denounce Plans To Build Waste Processor | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Riga, Nov 20 BNS -- The Latvian Environmental Protection club dislikes intentions of the Liechtenstein-based Premex Antstalt firm to build a waste burning plant in Latvia, the club's spokesman Pavils Raudonis told BNS. The club recognizes the need for treating toxic waste but s... |
FBIS3-41646_0 | France to Launch Oil Treatment Consortium | Language: French Article Type:CSO [Article by Jean-Pierre Gaudard: ``Environment: New Decree to Be Published Next Month; Used-Oil Recovery Network Being Set Up''--first paragraph is L'USINE NOUVELLE introduction] [Text] Industrial waste specialists could find new markets. But the collection system must be revised, and ... |
FBIS3-41650_1 | Dioxin Emissions From Metallurgical Works Experience in Bremen Shows That Plants on the Rhine and Ruhr Could Also Be Cleaned Up | and caused cancer and mutations in offspring. The effects on man are known mainly from examinations of the population of Seveso, chemical industry workers, and Vietnam veterans (the defoliant Agent Orange was contaminated with dioxins). Dioxins and furanes occur as unwanted byproducts of reactions involving chlorine, c... |
FBIS3-41650_2 | Dioxin Emissions From Metallurgical Works Experience in Bremen Shows That Plants on the Rhine and Ruhr Could Also Be Cleaned Up | of three to five nanograms TEQ per cubic meter gas were measured in the waste gas from sintering plants. This does not look so shocking at first sight as some garbage incineration plants are also still in this range (although about one half of Germany's 40 plants do now keep within the 0.1 nanogram limit). What makes s... |
FBIS3-41652_1 | Environment Technologies in New German Laender | Augsburg, is staking the success of its fourth production site wholly on recycled paper. Situated right on the Polish border, it is the first paper mill in Germany in which newsprint is produced primarily from waste paper. Not only the annual capacity of 250,000 tonnes but also the environment technology are impressive... |
FBIS3-41652_2 | Environment Technologies in New German Laender | before production began; the figure will be 150,000 by the end of the year. Obviously, it is not only the pioneering spirit that is driving the companies in the East towards innovation and commitment. Nowhere else are the investment conditions as good as they are in the new German laender. The industrial investment sub... |
FBIS3-41653_2 | Federal Ministry Funds Soil Reclamation Projects in New Laender | cyanide treatment works suffer from mercury pollution. The site of the former Ilsenburg Copper Mill and the area surrounding it have a high level of dioxin, furan, and other heavy metal pollution after decades of copper extraction from secondary sources such as PVC-covered copper cables or computer scrap without any en... |
FBIS3-41666_5 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | Measures 6.6. State Environmental Impact Studies 6.7. Environmental Monitoring 6.8. Environmental Security System Section 7. Science and Technology in the Resolution of Environmental Problems 7.1. Scientific-Technical Development Projects 7.2. Incorporation of Progressive Equipment and Technology Section 8. Internation... |
FBIS3-41666_97 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | from fish farms. The artificial reproduction of Pacific salmon was conducted at fish farms in Sakhalin, Kamchatka, and Magadan oblasts and Maritime and Khabarovsk krays, which produced more than 630 million fry of humpbacked, calico, silver, and red salmon. The artificial reproduction of fish stocks puts around 70,000 ... |
FBIS3-41666_121 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | damage on the vitality of existing ecosystems. In recent years the ichthyofauna of the Azov and Black seas has suffered from the mnemyopsis leydii brought here inadvertently from the United States in ballast fluid. Its mass proliferation in the Azov Sea in 1991-92 reduced the quantity of plankton to 0.04 mg/m[.sup]3[/]... |
FBIS3-41666_122 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | are eating most of the minnow roe and fry. Insects brought in by accident are frequently agricultural pests. They include the American white moth, a pest to mulberry, fruit, and decorative trees and shrubs, the potato moth, and the Capri beetle--the most dangerous pest to food supplies. The distribution of accidental s... |
FBIS3-41666_123 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | all of the quarantine species without exception are increasing each year. The habitats and numbers of foreign species of arthropods are growing, and they are causing perceptible harm to human health. One species of tick, the Ornithonyssus bacoti, has been found in homes in the Donbass in recent years. It is a carrier o... |
FBIS3-41666_187 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | municipal services and public utilities in 42 different regions. The highest number of accidents (50.5 percent) occurred in the heat supply network, and there were 33 accidents (32 percent) in facilities of the water supply network and sewer system. An analysis of these accidents indicates that the dilapidated state of... |
FBIS3-41666_195 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | year. At this time 124 million m[.sup]3[/] are sent to special disposal sites, and the rest of the waste is incinerated or sent to garbage disposal plants. The dumps and the runoff from the sewer system are polluting the ground water in several places, including 20 large areas near Pskov, Ivanovo, Smolensk, Derbent, Ul... |
FBIS3-41666_228 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | from ports, logging organizations, and oil terminals. Severobaykalsk, located on the shore of Lake Baykal, is a danger to the lake's ecosystem. The environmental pollution here is comprehensive: The central sewer system serves only part of the city, waste treatment facilities are overloaded, some sewage is dumped into ... |
FBIS3-41666_232 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | the adjacent expanses of the Baltic Sea by causing the asphyxiation of aquatic animals in the Pregolya River and some parts of Kursk Gulf. 4.2. State of Large Regions with Unsatisfactory Ecological Conditions The anthropogenic influences in several regions of the Russian Federation exceeded allowable limits and ecologi... |
FBIS3-41666_248 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | for nitrogen dioxide, and 32.5-98.0 percent for the combine effects of dust, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen dioxide. When data on requests for medical treatment, the characteristics of emissions, and air quality were collated in Perm Oblast, simulation models indicated that 10 of 19 categories of illness... |
FBIS3-41666_250 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | (in 1992) in the territories of radioactive pollution in Bryansk Oblast did not reveal the anticipated rise in the rate of thyroid cancer and malignant neoplasms of the hemopoietic and lymphatic systems in children or adults. The most unfavorable radiation conditions resulting from the accidents at the Mayak Scientific... |
FBIS3-41666_251 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | health. There is a similar situation in regions of the Far North, where it will be essential to study the population of the exposure zone of the Novaya Zemlya nuclear test site. This is also the location of the geographic accumulation of all of the global fall-out from nuclear tests conducted by all countries of the no... |
FBIS3-41666_279 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | to 2000). 11. ``Waste.'' (Phase I--1993-1995, phase II--1996-2000.) 12. ``The Protection of National Economic Facilities and Populated Communities on the Coast of the Caspian Sea in the Russian Federation.'' (Phase I--1993-1995, phase II--1996-2000.) 13. ``The Development of a Hydrometeorological System for the Nationa... |
FBIS3-41666_306 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | 14 34 0 estimates Distribution of 2 7 39 fund resources Oversight of fund 6 7 14 operations Besides this, the oversight of fund activities is exercised in two cases by environmental protection committees in conjunction with soviets and the administration, in six cases by the committee and the administration, in two cas... |
FBIS3-41666_326 | State Report on the State of the Environment of the Russian Federation in 1992 1.7. Flora and Fauna and Their Present State, Use, and Protection 1.8. Fish Resources and Their Present State, Use, Protection, and Reproduction 2.1. State Nature Preserves, National Parks, State Sanctuaries, and Natural Monuments Norilskiy ... | the Russian Ministry of Science's Fund for Major National Economic Problems in 1992, with total allocations reaching 340.105 million rubles. The basic ecological research of the Russian Academy of Sciences was conducted in a series of pioneering projects, despite the suspension of financing for the academy's Biosphere ... |
FBIS3-41673_3 | Antiplague Institute Official on Disease Outbreaks | are all of these subdivisions, including the head institute, called plague institutions? Don't you deal with other dangerous diseases as well? [Yefremenko]This is probably done out of tradition. In the past, plague was the most menacing danger, and in addition, our institute developed out of a plague station establishe... |
FBIS3-41673_5 | Antiplague Institute Official on Disease Outbreaks | But even here we can observe disregard for elementary requirements, shortcuts and other efforts at ``economization.'' Going abroad, our homemade businessmen, whose numbers are now impossible to count, deprive themselves of normal life, food and drink in their race for profit. Just one swallow of infected water is all i... |
FBIS3-41673_6 | Antiplague Institute Official on Disease Outbreaks | time actively moving from place to place, they are a source of special danger. I'm not talking just about the diseases named above in this case. Can we exclude, for example, outbreaks of typhus if pediculosis has become a common thing? Unfortunately, no. [Bykov]Are you saying that what we have here is a ``risk group'' ... |
FBIS3-41678_0 | Diphtheria and Scabies in St Petersburg | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Svetlana Besedovskaya (NK-Press), Vladimir Zarovskiy, staff reporter] [Text] A high level of scabies and diphtheria incidence has been reported in St. Petersburg. We should state though that the chief expert of the St. Petersburg Sanitary-Epidemiological Oversight, Oleg Pa... |
FBIS3-41688_1 | Epidemics in Rostov Area | But just as suddenly, 130 persons -- big and small -- ended up on hospital cots with a diagnosis of typhoid fever. Suddenly a landslide of morbidity due to dysentery, salmonellosis, and tularemia began. In the mining city of Gukovo, for example, salmonellosis raged twice this summer. Once the source was the worker's di... |
FBIS3-41690_1 | Report on Cholera Cases, Condition of Epidemiology Service | [Note: ``highly dangerous'' is the English equivalent of osoboopasnyy, which is the word from which osoboopasniki (persons working with highly dangerous diseases) is derived]. Working under her are several women who are not very young. Their sphere of activity is plague, cholera, tularemia, anthrax, and other scourges ... |
FBIS3-41690_5 | Report on Cholera Cases, Condition of Epidemiology Service | rubbish heap located so that, from our window, I can see when and what they throw out...At first, I let it pass, but then I watched. It was as if something appeared on the table near my associates. They cut up a rotten cucumber and ate it, and they brought it to their children, if only for some vitamins. And I closed m... |
FBIS3-41693_0 | Cholera Panic Unjustified | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Nikolay Gogol: ``Cholera Autumn''] [Text] The famous slogan ``Either the louse will vanquish the revolution or else the revolution will vanquish the louse'' is becoming increasingly topical. The insect is a symbol in a certain sense: It was not its tiresomeness that threat... |
FBIS3-41695_0 | Religious Restrictions Stall US Aid Trip | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Vissarion Sisnev:`` ``First Aid'' Delayed: Why Your Correspondent Needs To Write a`Self-Refutation' ''] [Text] Washington -- Last week my report `` `First Aid' for Russia'' was published. In it I stated that a large group of American medical personnel would soon be dispatc... |
FBIS3-41695_2 | Religious Restrictions Stall US Aid Trip | violating human rights. American legislators, colleagues of our deputies, have both in groups and individually approached president Yeltsin with the urgent request that he carefully weigh everything on the scales of justice before signing the draft legislation of 14 July. Included among them are such renowned politicia... |
FBIS3-41698_1 | Vaccine Safety Concerns, Shortage Underlie Diptheria Surge | alarmed at the increase in adults and children of another highly infectious disease whose initial symptoms are so similar to common angina and diptheria. At the end of the 1940s and beginning of the 1950s, more than 20,000 persons died in Moscow each year from diptheria. Under these conditions, the only correct solutio... |
FBIS3-41703_3 | Spread of Disease by Vagrants | in the grating separating the cashier's room from the waiting room. Only at the Savelovsk train station were there almost no vagrants. At the entrance of the Pavelets train station, however, I stumbled upon a whole line of people who had lost their human appearance. As later became clear, the train station's administra... |
FBIS3-41706_0 | Epidemiology Committee Gives Disease Statistics for 1993 | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article: ``When it Rains, it Pours''] [Text] The epidemiological situation in Russia is unfavorable--such is the conclusion of the RF State Committee for Sanitary-Epidemiological Oversight, which analyzed reports from public health services of all of the country's regions over the pa... |
FBIS3-41707_0 | Recent Disease Outbreaks Detailed | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article based on materials from the Postfactum Agency: ``A Wave of Infections Rolls Deep Into Russia''] [Text] Anthrax cases were registered in Iskitim, Novosibirsk Oblast, according to Vladimir Akulov, a correspondent of the Postfactum Agency and director of the oblast center for sa... |
FBIS3-41710_1 | Hepatitis in Russia | came about. The mother of an 11-year-old boy, her eyes sunken from sleepless nights no longer able to shed tears, explained: ``The boy fell ill after a routine immunization. Botkin's disease was the diagnosis. He recovered, but he still feels poorly sometimes.'' Now the sentence has been handed down--a year and a half ... |
FBIS3-41710_9 | Hepatitis in Russia | they are powerless if material support to the use of high quality blood tests is insufficient. Are there really no other ways of stopping hepatitis B and C besides blood tests? In 30 years of scientific research in this field, some things have already been accomplished. Creation of a specific vaccine against hepatitis ... |
FBIS3-41714_1 | Infectious Diseases, Mushroom Poisonings | for a long time, has made its appearance. Eighty-seven persons were hospitalized for it in Volgodonsk, Rostov Oblast. Specialists from the State Committee for Sanitary-Epidemiological Oversight limited their information to the indicated cases. But the geography of the infection and the list of patients are more extensi... |
FBIS3-41715_3 | Infectious Diseases in Juvenile Institutions | and even hundreds of kilometers, without money or clothing. They travel chiefly in trains, on baggage shelves or in vestibules. As they travel their long road, people give them food and money. But when all of this ends, they begin to steal. In train stations the guests to the capital come together into juvenile gangs, ... |
FBIS3-41723_0 | Tuberculosis Widespread in Yakutia | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by correspondent Vladimir Androsenko: ``Forgotten Diseases Are Returning With Poverty''] [Text] Cases of people dying from long-forgotten tubercular meningitis were noted in Yakutia in 1992. Other forms of diseases that had fallen into oblivion have grown in frequency as well... |
FBIS3-41725_7 | Authorities Seek Cause of Mass HIV Infection of Rostov Children | infection several degrees in who knows what direction fell into the lap of the procuracy. Until quite recently there were eight infected adults in Rostov Oblast. One man, and the rest women. The husband of one of the women divorced her after the diagnosis, while another three women became pregnant (after the diagnosis!... |
FBIS3-41726_0 | Water Quality Blamed for Sixteen Disease Outbreaks | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Lidiya Ivchenko: ``The Water Is Becoming Dangerous''] [Text] There was a time when water from the tap could be drunk in peace, even unboiled. Unfortunately today this is only an apparent state of well-being: Last year 16 outbreaks of infections from which almost 2,500 pers... |
FBIS3-41730_2 | Interview With Russian Epidemiology Official Shestopalov | general and the sanitary-epidemiological service in particular do not have enough resources for normal preventive work: Because of insufficient and late financing we are unable to carry out all of the necessary measures fully--medical checkups, analyses, disinfection, vaccination etc. But speaking in general, political... |
FBIS3-41730_4 | Interview With Russian Epidemiology Official Shestopalov | services to the maximum, although this is requiring colossal effort: There is nothing with which to pay for gasoline, electric power and building rent, and there is not enough money to acquire instruments, reagents, nutrient media and equipment. We appealed to the government, and it supported us: Local bodies of govern... |
FBIS3-41730_5 | Interview With Russian Epidemiology Official Shestopalov | measurements at a higher level of quality. Had it not been for all of these measures, the epidemic situation in the country would have been worse. Unfortunately, we are practically unable to influence diseases categorized as social diseases--tuberculosis, pediculosis, venereal. As we know, they increase in incidence un... |
FBIS3-41731_0 | Interview With RF Chief Epidemiologist Fedorov | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Interview with Yu. Fedorov, chief specialist, Russian Federation State Committee for Sanitary-Epidemiological Oversight, by Valeriya Leina; place and date of interview not given:`` Will We Overtake the War Year of 1918 in Cholera and Typhus?''] [Text] During the turbulent days of dev... |
FBIS3-41731_2 | Interview With RF Chief Epidemiologist Fedorov | very low. For example five tourists from Orekhovo-Zuyevo who visited Turkey fell ill. A total of 21 patients and eight virus carriers were registered. Four of them were discovered in Moscow--a person without a permanent place of residence, a nurse, and two foreign subjects--from Syria and Lebanon. With the exception of... |
FBIS3-41733_1 | Surge in Rodent-Borne Diseases | RABOCHIY introduction] [Text]A dramatic rise in number of rodent-borne diseases has been noted in the oblast. According to data of the Oblast Sanitary and Epidemiological Oversight Center, 148 cases of pseudotuberculosis (including 4 outbreaks in children's preschool institutions) and 56 cases of intestinal yersiniosis... |
FBIS3-41735_0 | Surge in Pediculosis Cases | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Svetlana Tutorskaya, IZVESTIYA correspondent: ``Ministry of Health Experts Report Hundreds of Thousands of Pediculosis Cases''] [Text]Last year, there were 337,333 officially recorded cases of human louse infestation, which is what we diffidently call pediculosis. Speciali... |
FBIS3-41740_6 | Condition of Epidemiology Service Interview With Epidemiology Committee Chairman Belyayev | us to speak about the cost of drinking water or about the fact that it is a product. The GOST ``Drinking Water'' requires studies of water for 28 ingredients. The World Health Organization proposed that water be studied for 50 ingredients back in 1984, and the list is now nearly up to 100. So you judge our level. Our o... |
FBIS3-41740_8 | Condition of Epidemiology Service Interview With Epidemiology Committee Chairman Belyayev | created a register of potentially hazardous chemical and biological materials. What is the purpose of this work? [Belyayev]Increasingly newer compositions, alloys, and chemicals are being used. Before they are used to manufacture, let us say, children's toys, we must know everything about these materials from the stand... |
FBIS3-41745_0 | Nine Anthrax cases in Astrakhan | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Arkadiy Semenyaka, under the title: Diagnosis - Anthrax] [Text] Ten residents of the Volodar region have entered the Astrakhan Oblast Infectious Disease Hospital. The diagnosis - anthrax. In the opinion of local specialists, the meat of a diseased animal was the source of ... |
FBIS3-41746_1 | Oncology Center Closes | action. It is difficult to check this assertion; therefore, let us take the eminent Academician at his word. And although there has been no sensation, you will understand that it made sense to continue the conversation... It is said that AIDS is the plague of the twentieth century. In Russia 500 people have acquired th... |
FBIS3-41746_3 | Oncology Center Closes | to ban legally the advertising of tobacco products. Note: our politicians give interviews, as a rule, with a cigarette in their teeth (in his time a chain smoker, as are, incidentally, many surgeons, Nikolay Nikolaevich gave this habit up twenty years ago. - T. S.). Or, for example, athletic competitions are going on, ... |
FBIS3-41749_0 | Official Sees Further Deterioration of Public Health | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by A. Yablokov, A. Demin, Russian Federation Interdepartmental Commission on Environmental Safety, ``And Our Health Will be Even Worse''] [Text] The unforgiving statistics are showing that the public health of Russia's citizens is critical and is continuing to deteriorate. Li... |
FBIS3-41751_0 | Mutations, Unique Syndrome in Village Near Mayak' | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by editorial board, ``Radiation Around Us''] [Text] This was reported by Nina Solovyeva, an expert from the Novosibirsk Cytology and Genetics Institute, in the course of a ``round table'' at the Russian Federation Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources. Ac... |
FBIS3-41753_0 | Academician on Adolescent Girls' Health | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by G. Serdykovskaya, N. Kuindzhi, ``We Are Behaving Like Comprachicos''] [Text]One of us has already written in Retsept how for many decades we have built--and are continuing to build!--school buildings which do not meet hygienic standards and how the health of many generatio... |
FBIS3-41753_1 | Academician on Adolescent Girls' Health | cycle whereby 43% of the respondents indicated a general deterioration of health or academic activity during menstrual periods. Approximately 20% of the women identified the menarche year as the most difficult year of learning at school. Among these data, the following highlights are the most interesting. Only about 20... |
FBIS3-41753_2 | Academician on Adolescent Girls' Health | intellectual stress (students at specialized schools of varying intellectual orientation as well as those combining education in a conventional school with training in a music or art school), the frequency of pregnancy complication by anemia increased by threefold and by hypotonia--by tenfold; labor activity anomalies ... |
FBIS3-41754_3 | Epidemiological Monitoring of Food Products | of ownership and in all administrative districts of the capital to take samples of wine and vodka products not manufactured in Moscow. The laboratory studies showed that 40 percent of them do not meet State Standard [GOST] requirements. [Semenenko]What kinds of preventive punishment does your service use upon discoveri... |
FBIS3-41758_2 | Interview With RF Epidemiology Committee Chairman Sore Spot [Bayduzhiy]In the opinion of the director of the sanitary-epidemiological service, is the sanitary-epidemic situation in Russia getting worse or better? [Belyayev]Unfortunately, it is getting worse. This | end of the year. By that time, morbidity due to diphtheria should fall. The same applies to other diseases in its group. [Bayduzhiy]With diphtheria things are more or less clear. But the worsening of the sanitary-epidemiological situation in the country is hardly tied to an outbreak of morbidity due to it alone... [Bel... |
FBIS3-41758_5 | Interview With RF Epidemiology Committee Chairman Sore Spot [Bayduzhiy]In the opinion of the director of the sanitary-epidemiological service, is the sanitary-epidemic situation in Russia getting worse or better? [Belyayev]Unfortunately, it is getting worse. This | laws in this area. Today there are laws. But do they work? [Cheburayev]The first law, titled ``Regarding Sanitary-Epidemiological Well-Being,'' was issued in 1991. It declared principles that at the time were absolutely new for the USSR and Russia: people's right to a clean environment and participation in its protecti... |
FBIS3-41762_0 | Improvements Needed in Tuberculosis Screening | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Lev Markovich Portnoy, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Roentgenological Department of the M. F. Vladimirsky Moscow Oblast Clinical Scientific Research Institute; under the title: The Second Coming of Tuberculous] [Text] A relatively quiet tuberculosis si... |
FBIS3-41764_0 | Cancer Increase in Byelarus Children | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article: ``Chernobyl Echo''] [Text] (ITAR-TASS) -- An increase in oncological diseases of the thyroid gland has been observed among the children victimized by the Chernobyl catastrophe in rayons of Byelarus. An increase in cancerous diseases of the thyroid gland after Chernobyl had b... |
FBIS3-41768_0 | Bubonic Plague Death in Kazakhstan | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Oleg Kvyatkovskiy, Kazakhstan] [Text] Dozens of physicians together with hundreds of experts from the most diverse fields in four Kazakhstan oblasts have completed a vast complex of preventive measures necessitated by the death of a three-year-old girl from cutaneous bubon... |
FBIS3-41769_0 | Bubonic Plague Death in Kazakhstan | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by Oleg Kvyatkovskiy, Kazakhstan] [Text] Dozens of physicians together with hundreds of experts from the most diverse fields in four Kazakhstan oblasts have completed a vast complex of preventive measures necessitated by the death of a three-year-old girl from cutaneous bubon... |
FBIS3-41772_0 | Brucellosis Cases Triple in Kyrgyzstan | Language: Russian Article Type:CSO [Article by correspondent M. Khamidov: ``Infection Gathers a Generous Harvest''] [Text] The incidence of brucellosis among people nearly tripled in recent years in Osh Oblast. Three hundred sixty-four cases of infection by this extremely serious ailment, which often leads to disabilit... |
FBIS3-41775_2 | East European AIDS Meeting in Riga | that the world community can make. The point is that on this very day, the epidemic is incapacitating the young and most capable members of society. According to today's estimates, direct health care costs in connection with AIDS in 1992 totaled $5 billion throughout the world. If the indirect costs of the epidemic are... |
FBIS3-41801_0 | AIDS, Other Infectious Diseases Spreading | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Nigel Hawkes, Science Editor: "Infectious Diseases Evolve To Stage Deadly Comeback"; first paragraph is THE TIMES introduction] [Text] Illnesses that scientists thought they had conquered with immunisation programmes and antibiotics are beginning to reappear. Infectious di... |
FBIS3-41804_0 | Doctor Claims To Have Caught Gulf Syndrome in UK | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Edward Pilkington: "Doctor Claims She Caught `Gulf Syndrome' at UK Base"] [Text] A doctor who worked on an RAF base in Stafford during the Gulf war yesterday raised fears that an unexplained illness known as Gulf syndrome could be contagious after she claimed to have contr... |
FBIS3-41809_0 | Crohn's Disease Rises in Children, Causes Sought | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Chris Mihill, Medical Correspondent: "Measles Vaccination Tied to Bowel Illness"] [Excerpt] Vaccination against measles may cause a serious bowel condition which has shown a dramatic rise in recent years, researchers said yesterday. It is thought that the measles virus, bo... |
FBIS3-41810_0 | Alert Over Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in Women | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Jeremy Laurance, Health Services Correspondent: "12,000 at Risk From Brain Disease May Never Be Traced"; first paragraph is THE TIMES introduction] [Text] A new alert started over Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease as women trying to call a helpline found the switchboard jammed. Up... |
FBIS3-41815_0 | Concern Over Transmission of Spongiform Encephalopathy | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Nigel Hawkes, Science Editor: "Zoo Antelope Catch Mad Cow Disease"] [Text] Scientists at London zoo have discovered that a strain of "mad cow disease" affecting a type of antelope can be transmitted much more easily than was thought. The finding uncovers a threat to breedi... |
FBIS3-41816_0 | Cattle Tested for AIDS-Like Illness | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Michael Hornsby, agriculture correspondent: "Cattle Are Tested for AIDS-Like Illness"] [Text] Scientists are investigating what they think may be an AIDS-like disease of cattle in Britain. Samples of blood from the sick animals are being tested for signs of a virus that is... |
FBIS3-41817_0 | Unknown Disease Blights Alder Trees, Plague Feared | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Michael Hornsby, countryside correspondent: "Unknown Disease Blights Alder Trees"] [Text] Britain's riversides and wetlands are threatened by a disease which may be killing the alder trees that grow there. Scientists fear the plague may prove as devastating as that which w... |
FBIS3-41821_0 | Government, Academic Joint HIV Research Program | Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Text] The Science and Technology Agency (STA), the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery (MAFF), in conjunction with universities, have embarked on the development of basic technologies to control the infection and outbreak of the... |
FBIS3-41823_0 | Rare Earth Cutting Ability for DNA, RNA Useful in AIDS Research | Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Text] Recently, a research group headed by Professor Shin Komiyama of the industrial chemistry division of Tokyo University's Engineering Department discovered that cerium and other lanthanide ions and lanthanide complexes very rapidly hydrolyze DNA and RNA phosphodiester bonding un... |
FBIS3-41825_1 | EP Requests General Prohibition of Cloning of Humans | urgent debates at its session at the end of October, Parliament adopted a resolution denouncing the cloning of human beings for any reason, including research, as a serious violation of fundamental human rights and an act that violates respect for the individual, is morally detestable and ethically unacceptable. The EP... |
FBIS3-41829_0 | Typhus Outbreak; President Calls For International Medical Assistance | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pristina, January 24 (ATA) -- There was a boom of typhus in Kosova last week. Thirty Albanian patients infected by typhus were sent to the infective clinic of Pristina. The physicians warned there are other patients infected by typhus, but this number is not yet made evident. A... |
FBIS3-41831_0 | Report Submitted to UN General Assembly on U.S. Blockade | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] United Nations, 15 Oct (PL) -- A group of experts has estimated that, since it began, the U.S. unilateral blockade has cost Cuba $40.8 billion. The figure, considered preliminary by Cuban economists, appears in a letter and annex sent by Fernando Remirez de Estenoz, Cuban a... |
FBIS3-41833_0 | Resurgence of Cholera, Leprosy, Other Dread Diseases | Language: Portuguese Article Type:CSO [Article by Chico Otavio: "Diseases of Poverty"] [Text] The lack of basic sanitation in over 90 percent of Brazil's municipalities has caused the return of cholera and leprosy, which would have been prevented with clean water. The dream has ended. A year after having served as the ... |
FBIS3-41833_2 | Resurgence of Cholera, Leprosy, Other Dread Diseases | They claimed that the high perinatal and infant mortality rate could be explained by the difficulty in gaining access to quality preventive and remedial health services. The cholera epidemic is another example of this relationship. Studies show that most of the 8,000 cases reported this year affected the population gro... |
FBIS3-41835_0 | Health Minister Reports Incidence of AIDS | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Judy Siegel] [Excerpt] Peace could promote the spread of AIDS here, as open borders and casual sex with foreigners are liable to increase the risk of infection, Health Minister Hayim Ramon said yesterday. He was speaking to reporters in advance of World AIDS Day, which will... |
FBIS3-41868_0 | Regime Reportedly Hiding Chemical Weapons in Oil Pipes | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] In its Monday issue, the newspaper AL-MU'TAMAR reported that news coming from the areas under the Iraqi regime's control indicate that the regime is hiding its chemical weapons in the oil pipes located between al-Fallujah City and the Jordanian border. This is the last desperate... |
FBIS3-41873_1 | Energy Official Details Nuclear Achievements, Capabilities | of funds to impede their work. They have built locally several major parts for a nuclear power plant that were previously imported, and have not let external impediments stand in the way of the smooth operation of their program. Pakistan's first nuclear power plant was supplied by Canada some 20-22 years ago, but due t... |
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