ANALYSIS OF THE INCIDENCE OF ECHINOCOCCOSIS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

This paper presents the results of the analysis of official reporting data on the incidence of echinococcosis for the last 5 years (2017–2021) and the analysis results of maps of the epidemiological survey of echinococcosis foci in the Russian Federation for the same period. During 2020–2021, a significant decrease in incidence rates for cystic echinococcosis was recorded, as well as in the total number of detected parasitic diseases almost in 1.8 compared to 2018, which is evidently due the limited availability of routine medical care to patients during the pandemic of the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19. But it should be noted that the incidence of alveococcosis remained at the same level over the last 5 years. Rural residents of working age suffer from echinococcosis more often. Despite significant improvements in the methods of instrumental diagnosis of echinococcosis and increased availability of high-tech medical care, echinococcosis-associated lethal outcomes are recorded annually in the Russian Federation. The lethality rate of cystic echinococcosis varied from 0 to 1.1% for the last 5 years, and alveococcosis, from 2.0% to 6.25%.