[Total and allergic morbidity trends in the population residing in the area of microbiological industry].

Due to exposure to emissions from a protein-vitamin concentrate-manufacturing enterprise, the total and allergic morbidity rates remained high in the Blagoveshchensk population during a follow-up, the incidence of asthma and atopic dermatitis being on the rise and that of pollen disease on the decrease. The findings show the need for a further follow-up of the health status of the population of this area, the living conditions in which are risk factors for allergic and toxic allergic diseases even after microbiological industry closure.

[The health status of a pediatric population at the site near a Bashkir biochemical plant].

Qualitative immunological changes in children from an old age group who have clinical manifestations of immunological deficiency and in apparently healthy children, who reside at the site in vicinity of a Bashkir biochemical plant may suggest the negative impact of emission from the plant on their health and require differential measures aimed at correcting the immune system.