CERTAIN EXPERIENCES IN ANTIEPIDEMIC MEASURES IN THE ARMY IN THE GREAT FATHERLAND WAR
Abstract
Epidemic outbursts of diseases among the troops are not the inevitable concomitants of wars, but arise as a result of the unsatisfactory state of the authorized organizational structure of the medical service and the quantitatively inadequate and topically incomplete training of the necessary specialists, especially the administrative personnel in the service. The antiepidemic experience of the past war cannot serve as the necessary basis and peacetime antiepidemic work cannot serve as a sufficient basis for the training of the necessary specialists, unless that experience and that antiepidemic work are systematically supplemented by the conclusions evolving from the achievements of the technical, natural, and especially the biological and medical sciences. The carrying out of planned inoculations among troops in the field is possible when the scheme for immunization with vaccine preparations is one-time, and the method is simple and capable of encompassing large masses of people in short periods of time. But inoculations on the basis of epidemic indications take on greater effectiveness when, in addition to this one-time principle and the simplicity of the method of application of vaccine preparations, the latter possess high immunogenic properties assuring the onset of general and local immunity in short periods of time approaching the length of the incubation period for the corresponding epidemic diseases.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 17, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0835143
Entities
People
- E. I. Smirnov
Organizations
- United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories