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The risk of an epidemic outbreak in southern Ukraine
Małgorzata Marchelek-Myśliwiec1, Jevhen Garan2, Katarzyna Mańkowska3
1Clinic of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.
Abstract:
The humanitarian crisis that followed the military aggression against Ukraine is getting worse. The war which has continued since February 2022 has already caused irreparable health damage in the local community, which is affected by such acts of Russian terror as the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River. As a result of the explosion and destruction of the dam, which occurred on 6 June 2023, over 2,500 square kilometres of land were flooded and around 17,000 residents had to be evacuated.
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