Abstract
The article presents the rationale for the use of hydro-epidemiology in assessing the risk of spreading water-related in-fectious diseases of animals. The authors distinguish six hydro-epidemiological groups of diseases: 1) water is the medium of pathogen accumulation; 2) water is the medium for transmission of the infection pathogen without its biological accumula-tion; 3) the development cycle of the causative agent is directly related to water and aquatic organisms; 4) diseases transmitted by insects having water-related development cycle; 5) diseases transmitted by aquatic and near-water vertebrates; 6) diseases of reservoir inhabitants. At the same time, it is shown that the aquatic filter-feeding bivalves (mollusks) accumulate in them-selves various pathogenic microorganisms, which are the causative agents of infectious diseases of both man and animals. Thus, mollusks can serve as a test object for hydro-epidemiological study in assessing the risk of infectious diseases dissemi-nation in water area and near-water complex as well as in using them directly for food.
Highlights
The article presents the rationale for the use of hydro-epidemiology in assessing the risk of spreading water-related infectious diseases of animals
It is shown that the aquatic filter-feeding bivalves accumulate in themselves various pathogenic microorganisms, which are the causative agents of infectious diseases of both man and animals
Mollusks can serve as a test object for hydro-epidemiological study in assessing the risk of infectious diseases dissemination in water area and near-water complex as well as in using them directly for food
Summary
The article presents the rationale for the use of hydro-epidemiology in assessing the risk of spreading water-related infectious diseases of animals. Однако при этом роль акваторий и населяющих их организмов как в качестве объектов индикации контаминации водной среды, так и непосредственного механизма передачи возбудителя остается слабо изученной. Гидроэпидемиология – новая отрасль знания, изучающая возникновение и распространение инфекционных болезней человека и животных, непосредственно или опосредовано связанных с водоемами [8, 9, 10].
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