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An estimated scope of measures, aimed at the prevention of Ebola virus disease importation and transmission in the territory of the Russian Federation, targets the maximum level of hazard to the population. It has a complex interagency character, whereby the Federal service for surveillance in the sphere of consumers rights protection and human welfare functions as coordinator and principal executing agency. The measures affect the following areas: regulatory compliance and methodological support, sanitary-quarantine control reinforcement at the entry points on the state border of the Russian Federation, strengthening of anti-epidemic preparedness of the Rospotrebnadzor and public healthcare institutions and authorities, including operational preparedness of the laboratory facilities, information support within the framework of epidemiological surveillance, and involvement in the activities under the international collaboration for epidemic response and control. Practices have been completed as regards series of actions conducted from the time of the case identification and further on; evacuation of the infected and suspected individuals, procedures for sanitary disinfection, interventions in the relation to contact persons, and readiness for anti-epidemic measures performance.

Discussed is the build-up of a term “sanitary protection of the territories”. Regardless of commonly accepted definition of sanitation as a discipline that studies issues of public hygiene, sanitary protection of the territories, being for the most part an epidemiological phenomenon and an element of epidemiology, has maintained historically developed attribute “sanitary”. Demonstrated is the fact that variations in interpretation of the terms in the sphere of sanitary protection of the territories in various contexts of international intercourse (WHO and SIC) do not affect general concept of the issue and choice of ways for handling a problem as regards provision of sanitary-epidemiological welfare of the population. Objectives and content of the two notions formalized in IHR (2005), – “global epidemiological surveillance” plus “response measures” – predetermine their equivalence (in reference to the situations covered in the document), to the definitions “epidemiological surveillance” plus “sanitary protection”, applied to in the territory of CIS counties.

Considered are the changes introduced into the list of infections, which require implementation of measures for the provision of sanitary protection of the territories, formalized in the international and state regulatory documents. Analyzed are the basic criteria for assigning infections to the category of – “requiring sanitary control”. Distinguished are the two groups of criteria for assigning infectious diseases to the group of infections that require implementation of measures for the provision of sanitary protection of the territories, either on the country-wide level or within the frames of interstate alliances.