Russia: Specialists look into pneumonia outbreak among recruits

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Source: http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=13463792&PageNum=0

Specialists look into pneumonia outbreak among recruits

12.01.2009, 14.04

YEKATERINBURG, January 12 (Itar-Tass) - The military prosecutor?s office is looking into hospitalisation with suspected pneumonia of 95 servicemen in Russia?s Sverdlovsk region, an aide to the military prosecutor of the Volga-Urals military district told Tass on Monday.

According to Sergei Bogomolov, specialists of the sanitary-epidemiological service participate in checks. Checks were also organized at the recruiting offices, from where recruits arrived at the Yelan training centre, he added.

The first recruits with pneumonia symptoms from the training centre were hospitalised on December 20. All in all, 95 servicemen have been hospitalised with similar symptoms. At present 58 patients remain in hospital.

According to the Volga-Urals military district press centre?s head Konstantin Lazutkin, there are about several thousands newly enlisted military men in the aforementioned training centre. He also said that such big incidence ratio, although far from a critical epidemiological threshold, is connected with the fact that many recruits already arrive with symptoms of the disease. ?This year, medics have already fixed 300 cases of suspected pneumonia among the recruits. About 100 of them were hospitalised,? he added.

 

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Source: http://www.uralinform.ru/armnews/news109942.html

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28.08.2009 - 17:09
Russia's conscripts will no longer "stick" vaccine
Ekaterinburg. Military medical malpractice refused to put recruits in several vaccines at once. Change the method of vaccination, they decided after the epidemic of pneumonia in Elanskii training divisions in the winter of 2009.

As told to "UralInformByuro" Sverdlovsk Ombudsman Tatiana Merzlyakov, the decision to abandon the barbaric to the human organism is caused by injections of the investigation of the emergency. In autumn 2008 the influx of "SCHOOL" recruits placed at the same time 3 doses, including pneumonia (French vaccine "Pneumo-23") and influenza.

As a result of this "attack" on the immunity, worsened by cold weather, get sick more than 1 000 people - slightly less than a third of the garrison. Most severe patients - about 100 people - were evacuated to the district military hospital in Yekaterinburg, where he died of pneumonia draftee from Snezhinsk Anton Yumatov. Less severe were treated in hospitals, which were converted into barracks.

The death of a young man inspired the military to change the approach. "Already this year, during the last call in Yelan, vaccinations do not make" wholesale ", and can withstand a certain interval between them for the adaptation of the organism", - explained V. Merzlyakov. According to her, the same practice will be circulated among the troops everywhere - an indication of this came from the Ministry of Defense.

Meanwhile, the criminal investigation into the death of A. Yumatova continues. Parallel investigation by another case brought up on charges of mass illness of soldiers under Article 236 of the Criminal Code "violation of sanitary-epidemiological norms and rules. In case more than six months carrying out an assessment. Defendants in both investigations yet. However, the commander Elanskogo Training Center, Colonel Viktor Bizyaev as a result of official investigations had been dismissed from military service.