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ECDC: CDTR, 11-17 August, week 33

ECDC has published Communicable disease threats report, 11-17 August 2019, week 33. The summary:

This issue covers the period from 11 to 17 August 2019 and includes updates on Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, chikungunya virus disease and dengue, monitoring environmental sustainability of Vibrio growth in the Baltic Sea, the mass gathering of the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, tularaemia in Sweden and West Nile virus infection.

Russia: 900 cases of tularemia

Many thanks to Dr. Anne De Groot for sending me the link to this September 13 post in ProMED-mail, which I completely missed (well, I was in Helsinki!). Excerpt:

According to the Department of healthcare of Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, 900 inhabitants have contracted tularemia. Among them, 858 people are residents of Khanty-Mansiysk; 33 live in Khanty-Mansiysk district; the remaining cases were recorded in Nizhnevartovsk. 

It is established that several of the patients in Nizhnevartovsk are employees of the oil industry and contracted tularemia in the field. 

In Khanty-Mansiysk and Khanty-Mansiysk district, work on measures against rodents and mosquitoes, which are the sources and carriers of disease, is continuing. 

According to the Department of Rospotrebnadzor [The Federal Service for Protection of Consumers' Rights and Well-Being] in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the 1st cases were reported on 19 Aug 2013. Due to the significant deterioration of the epidemiological situation regarding the incidence of tularemia in Khanty-Mansiysk, an emergency situation has been declared.

I can't seem to find any follow-up reports; if anyone can point me to them, I'd be grateful.