[Specialized epidemic brigade during extreme situation].

Information on the main trends in the activity and on the organization of the work of the specialized antiepidemic brigade of the Stavropol Research Institute for Plague Control in Grozny in the first half of the year 2000 is presented. At the initial stage of this activity the specialists of the brigade were entrusted with all functions of the local state sanitary and epidemiological service which had lost its qualified personnel and material resources. At the initial stages of the work the main attention was drawn to the organization of the registration of patients with infectious diseases, to the control of drinking water and to the realization of immunoprophylactic measures, etc. The specialists of the brigade carried out their work in close cooperation with the medical service of the Territorial Head Office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation in the Chechen Republic.