[Biological, chemical, and radiation factors in the classification of medical waste].

The current classification of medical waste does not consider the sanitary-and-chemical hazard of epidemiologically dangerous and extremely dangerous medical waste (classes B and C). According to the results of the studies performed, the authors propose the improved classification of medical waste, which makes it possible to take into account not only infectious, radiation, and toxicological, but also sanitary-and-chemical hazards (toxicity, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, and biological activity) of medical waste.

[Control of industrial waste consumption residues: ecological and hygienic aspects].

The problem in the provision of safe handling of industrial waste and consumption residues is relatively current. According with the United Nations Organization's data, 25 to 33% of the world's notified diseases are directly associated with the low quality of the human environment. Up to now, a list of chemicals encountered in the waste and residues is unavailable in Russia and foreign countries. By keeping in mind the ubiquitous spread of industrial waste and consumption resides due to human vital activity, their huge formations and their very wide diversity in composition, type, and pattern of a possible dangerous effect, it is important to consider the problem associated with waste handling, by evaluating their environmental and hygienic hazard.

[The environmental-and-hygienic risk of industrial waste and consumption].

How to safely handle production and consumption residues is a relatively recent problem. According to the data of the United Nations Organization, 25 to 33% of the diseases notified in the world are directly related to the poor human environment. In Russia and foreign countries, there has been no list of chemicals so far. By taking into account the general spread of human vital activity-induced production and consumption residues, the substantial scale of formation and a great variety of the latter's in their composition, types, and the pattern of their possible deleterious action, it is important to consider the problem of handling the residues, by assessing the risk of their hazard.

[Topical problems of society's waste handling].

The fact that the volume of waste steadily grows, makes its handling one of the most topical scientific, technical, and socioeconomic problems in the world. The article covers important ecological and hygienic problems of waste handling and the effects of waste of human health.

[Human dirofilariasis in the Moscow region]. / Difiliarioz cheloveka v Moskovskom regione.

Dirofilaria repens Railliet et Henry, 1911 was for the first time studied in the Moscow Region where 11 patients (6 males and 5 females) aged 4-72 years were recorded in 2000-2002. The geographical distribution (the southern and south-eastern parts of the region) of local cases of dirofiliriasis, was observed. There was a relatively high rate of D. repens in the male genitalia of the infected patients as compared with that reported by other authors. In accordance with the current terminology, D. repens in the Moscow Region is proposed to be regarded as emerging infection. The authors show it necessary to obligatorily record all autochtonous cases of D. repens infection, to make epidemiological surveillance and analysis in order to early detect and prevent dirofilariasis-associated complications.

[Clinical and parasitological diagnosis of human dirofilariasis]. / Klinicheskii i parazitologicheskii diagnoz dirofiliarioza cheloveka.

The paper reports two new cases of human dirofiliriasis (its causative agent is Dirofiliria repens) with a rare clinical diagnosis of funiculitis of the right scrotal spermatic cord in a 12-year-old boy from the Tambov Region and of erysipelatous inflammation of the outer side of the right leg in a 68-year-old woman who resides in Moscow and lives in her country house in the Shakhovsky District, Moscow Region, in summer. Both cases of invasion are regarded as local. The bodies of the D. repens females detected measured 110 x 0.476-0.48 and 135 x 0.56-0.60 mm, respectively, and the females were identified as impubertal and pubertal, but infecund. In the former case, dirofiliriasis was an etiological factor of spermatic cord funiculitis. In the latter case, the location of Dirofiliria provoked prolonged (7-month) erysipelatous inflammation. Emphasis is placed on the implication of dirofiliriasis in human pathology. To have a more intimate knowledge of parasitic etiology will help physicians in making a differential diagnosis of dirofiliriasis and in elaborating a correct treatment policy after a clinical and parasitological diagnosis is established.