Review of Epidemiological Situation on Brucellosis in the Russian Federation in 2014, and Prognosis for 2015

Abstract

Represented is the analysis and assessment of epidemiological and epizootiological situation on brucellosis in the Russian Federation in 2014. Human morbidity rates in 2014 exceed the indexes of 2013 by 7.7 %. Negative trend in the live-stock animal incidence (cattle and small ruminants), as well as in the numbers of registered index potentially hazardous territories, as regards brucellosis, remains. The highest brucellosis morbidity rates are in the North-Caucasian, Southern and Siberian Federal Districts. The quantity of brucellosis cases among the population has increased in Central and Far-Eastern Federal Districts. Put forward is the prognosis on the human brucellosis morbidity rates for 2015.

Keywords

• бруцеллез
• заболеваемость
• эпидемические проявления
• эпизоотический процесс
• brucellosis
• morbidity
• epidemic manifestations
• epizootic process