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Last summer's fires to push up disease rates - chief therapist.
MOSCOW, September 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Last summer's forest and peat
fires have already had a negative impact on the health of those who had to inhale smoke from them for days on end, and they will continue to manifest themselves for about half a year, the chief therapist of the Health and Social Development Ministry, Alexander Chuchalin, told a news conference this week.
"The effects (of heat and smoke) are normally felt for a period of 3-6
months," he said, explaining that due to forest fires, "people were
practically breathing carbon monoxide."
"We conducted some research to have found out that the air people
exhaled was cleaner than the one they inhaled," Chuchalin said. He
explained that in fact every person "practically took over the function of
a tree, which absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen."
Chuchalin said that the multiple excess of carbon monoxide tolerance
limits in the air last summer caused the rate of cardiovascular diseases
and number of sudden deaths to surge up. In addition, many survivors of
this negative environmental situation developed emotional depression,
apathy and sleep disturbance, because, as Chuchalin explained, carbon
monoxide affects the higher parts of the nervous system."
However, he said, despite the fact that last summer many experienced a
terrible blow, "all these are situational things" and "they do not affect
the human genome."
In general, the impact of the environmental situation this summer will
be considered by experts in greater detail.
"Now these materials are being studied," Chuchalin said.
.Russia to support any decision by people of southern Sudan-Margelov.
UNITED NATIONS, September 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia will support any
outcome of the referendum on the self-determination of southern Sudan in
January 2011, regardless of the decision still to be made, the Russian
president's special envoy for Sudan, Mikhail Margelov, told Itar-Tass. On
Friday, he attended a high-level meeting on Sudan, which was held on the
sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
"Currently, Sudan is witnessing undoubtedly positive developments," he
said. "This is an achievement of the government in Khartoum, international
mediators, the government of the south, as well as the UN and the African
Union."
"In general, the country complies with the provisions of the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement, an integral part of which is holding a
referendum in January 2011," Margelov said. "No matter what decision the
people of southern Sudan may take, Russia will support their choice. The
same position is shared by other members of the UN Security Council, the
African Union and the European Union and other influential international
organizations."
"It's clear that nobody wants to see the emergence of a new failed
state in the heart of Africa," he said. "Somalia's experience is terrible
nobody wants its repetition."
"It is clear that the north and south Sudan are so interdependent and
linked by close economic, political and other ties, that there is no way
of breaking them either now or in the future," Margelov said. "The
referendum will give a unique chance to the African political elites and
international organizations to show that Africa can and knows how to solve
its political problems through peaceful means and with reliance on the
experience of the world community," he added.
At the same time in his statement at the high level meeting, Margelov
stressed that "it is important not to pre-determine the outcome of the
referendum from the outside." In his opinion, "that may be perceived as
interference in Sudan's internal affairs, which would call the results of
the referendum in question."
The Russian presidential representative stated that it would be of
special importance to ensure the voting should be held "in due time - in
January 2011, because a disruption of the plebiscite would have very
negative consequences."
"Besides, one should not forget that one of the central provisions of
the CPA is the obligation of all parties to act in a way that would
increase the attractiveness of maintaining the unity of the country,"
Margelov said.
"Problems that have been accumulated there are many, but, as
experience of the passed general elections shows, they are surmountable,"
he said. The special representative also praised the fact that "Khartoum
and Juba are working together to solve the "suspended" issues, including
the development of a mutually acceptable pattern of distribution of
revenues from natural resources."
"In his opinion, it is important and that "the parties have reached
agreement on establishing mechanisms of negotiations to discuss all
contentious issues with an view to any outcome of the referendum."
.Soyuz spacecraft with crew of three undocks from ISS.
MOSCOW, September 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's manned spacecraft Soyuz
with a crew of three on board undocked from the International Space
Station after a second attempt at 06:00 Moscow time and began the flight
back to Earth, Mission Control outside Moscow told Itar-Tass.
"The descent capsule of the Soyuz TMA-18s spacecraft, carrying Russian
cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and NASA's astronaut
Tracy Caldwell Dyson, is due to land about 34 km south of the town of
Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 09:22 Moscow time," Mission Control recalled.
On Friday, Soyuz failed to undock from the ISS for technical reasons.
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fires have already had a negative impact on the health of those who had to inhale smoke from them for days on end, and they will continue to manifest themselves for about half a year, the chief therapist of the Health and Social Development Ministry, Alexander Chuchalin, told a news conference this week.
"The effects (of heat and smoke) are normally felt for a period of 3-6
months," he said, explaining that due to forest fires, "people were
practically breathing carbon monoxide."
"We conducted some research to have found out that the air people
exhaled was cleaner than the one they inhaled," Chuchalin said. He
explained that in fact every person "practically took over the function of
a tree, which absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen."
Chuchalin said that the multiple excess of carbon monoxide tolerance
limits in the air last summer caused the rate of cardiovascular diseases
and number of sudden deaths to surge up. In addition, many survivors of
this negative environmental situation developed emotional depression,
apathy and sleep disturbance, because, as Chuchalin explained, carbon
monoxide affects the higher parts of the nervous system."
However, he said, despite the fact that last summer many experienced a
terrible blow, "all these are situational things" and "they do not affect
the human genome."
In general, the impact of the environmental situation this summer will
be considered by experts in greater detail.
"Now these materials are being studied," Chuchalin said.
.Russia to support any decision by people of southern Sudan-Margelov.
UNITED NATIONS, September 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia will support any
outcome of the referendum on the self-determination of southern Sudan in
January 2011, regardless of the decision still to be made, the Russian
president's special envoy for Sudan, Mikhail Margelov, told Itar-Tass. On
Friday, he attended a high-level meeting on Sudan, which was held on the
sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
"Currently, Sudan is witnessing undoubtedly positive developments," he
said. "This is an achievement of the government in Khartoum, international
mediators, the government of the south, as well as the UN and the African
Union."
"In general, the country complies with the provisions of the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement, an integral part of which is holding a
referendum in January 2011," Margelov said. "No matter what decision the
people of southern Sudan may take, Russia will support their choice. The
same position is shared by other members of the UN Security Council, the
African Union and the European Union and other influential international
organizations."
"It's clear that nobody wants to see the emergence of a new failed
state in the heart of Africa," he said. "Somalia's experience is terrible
nobody wants its repetition."
"It is clear that the north and south Sudan are so interdependent and
linked by close economic, political and other ties, that there is no way
of breaking them either now or in the future," Margelov said. "The
referendum will give a unique chance to the African political elites and
international organizations to show that Africa can and knows how to solve
its political problems through peaceful means and with reliance on the
experience of the world community," he added.
At the same time in his statement at the high level meeting, Margelov
stressed that "it is important not to pre-determine the outcome of the
referendum from the outside." In his opinion, "that may be perceived as
interference in Sudan's internal affairs, which would call the results of
the referendum in question."
The Russian presidential representative stated that it would be of
special importance to ensure the voting should be held "in due time - in
January 2011, because a disruption of the plebiscite would have very
negative consequences."
"Besides, one should not forget that one of the central provisions of
the CPA is the obligation of all parties to act in a way that would
increase the attractiveness of maintaining the unity of the country,"
Margelov said.
"Problems that have been accumulated there are many, but, as
experience of the passed general elections shows, they are surmountable,"
he said. The special representative also praised the fact that "Khartoum
and Juba are working together to solve the "suspended" issues, including
the development of a mutually acceptable pattern of distribution of
revenues from natural resources."
"In his opinion, it is important and that "the parties have reached
agreement on establishing mechanisms of negotiations to discuss all
contentious issues with an view to any outcome of the referendum."
.Soyuz spacecraft with crew of three undocks from ISS.
MOSCOW, September 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's manned spacecraft Soyuz
with a crew of three on board undocked from the International Space
Station after a second attempt at 06:00 Moscow time and began the flight
back to Earth, Mission Control outside Moscow told Itar-Tass.
"The descent capsule of the Soyuz TMA-18s spacecraft, carrying Russian
cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and NASA's astronaut
Tracy Caldwell Dyson, is due to land about 34 km south of the town of
Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 09:22 Moscow time," Mission Control recalled.
On Friday, Soyuz failed to undock from the ISS for technical reasons.
-0-str
