Organization of infection control in the Orenburg region in 1941– 1945: article dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory

Abstract

Risk of the spread of acute contagious infections at the front has sharply increased with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, as a result of which the problem of ensuring sanitary and epidemic wellbeing, including the home front, has been put forward. The issue of preventing the spread of infectious diseases was developed in the war period on the home front, by a group of scientists from the city of Chkalov as well. An important role was given to solving the problem of production of bactericides, improving the production of vaccines and serums, research to increase their immune properties, reduce reactivity, etc. Three institutes of epidemiology and microbiology functioned in the city of Chkalov (now Orenburg) in wartime: Smolensky, Chkalovsky and Ukrainian institute named after I. I. Mechnikov.