FUNDAMENTAL ANTITULAREMIA MEASURES AND TRENDS IN THE WORK OF TULAREMIA CONTROL STATIONS

The fundamental measures of control which are discussed include: (1) vaccination of the people against tularemia; (2) study of regional epidemiology of tularemia, counting rodent populations, establishing outbreaks of epizootic among them, preparation of epizootological and epidemiological forecasts of tularemia; (3) increasing the knowledge of medical personnel on matters of diagnosis, clinical course, treatment, and prophylaxis of tularemia; (4) organization and implementation of measures for the eradication of rodents in the fields and in settlements; (5) implementation of general sanitation measures; (6) educational work among the people on the questions of sanitation and personal prophylaxis against tularemia; (7) strengthening of tularemia control stations with personnel, improving professional qualifications of specialists of stations, supplying them with proper facilities and laboratory equipment. Trans. of Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii (USSR) v26 n1 p92-97 1955.