[Model experiments on sorption properties of beet-root fiber].

Model experiments provided results of determining sorbate properties of beet-root fiber in respect of copper, plumbum and zinc in diary foods. It was determined that this fiber makes possible the absorbing of the above mentioned heavy metal, which increases the hygienic safety of the studied diary foods.

Importation of malaria into the USSR from Afghanistan, 1981-89.

Between 1981 and 1989, a total of 7683 cases of Plasmodium vivax [corrected] malaria were imported into the USSR from Afghanistan, mainly by demobilized military personnel. For 23.8% of these cases the clinical manifestations appeared within a month of returning to the USSR, for 22.