Nearly 70 burial grounds are affected by flooding

Nearly 70 burial grounds are located in the flood-affected areas of the Far East, said the agency "Interfax" the head of Epidemiology, the chief state sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko. "Of the 68 burial grounds - six disadvantaged anthrax," - said Gennady Onishchenko. "In the Amur region into a zone of flooding hit five disadvantaged communities that are disadvantaged in the inventory on anthrax localities in Russia. In these settlements, two cattle burial ", - said the head of Epidemiology. He said that in the burial grounds as the water left the forces of organized sanitation team Irkutsk Plague Epidemiology. "After 56 studies on the indication of anthrax in soil samples. The results, thankfully, negative, "- said Gennady Onishchenko. In the Jewish Autonomous Region Water logging is one of the three localities, where in 1953-1954. Dispose of animals that have died of anthrax. "Research ulcers in the Jewish Autonomous Region also gave a negative result," - said Gennady Onishchenko. According to Onishchenko, the affected areas of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai selected and studied the molecular-genetic and bacteriological methods dozens of soil samples, the results so far give no reason for alarm. "An electronic map of sampling soil for anthrax in the Khabarovsk Krai and the Jewish Autonomous Region" - said Gennady Onishchenko.

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