The extraordinary XXI Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union approved the plan for the development of the national economy of our country for 1959-65.

Endemic goiter is a disease of the body, accompanied by an enlargement of the thyroid gland, observed in some areas and associated with the geological and geochemical features of the structure of the area, namely with a lack of iodine in soil, water, air and food.

Our report is based on observations of 100 patients with alveolar echinococcus of the liver who passed through the therapeutic clinics of the Tomsk Medical Institute. There were 49 women and 51 men, that is, alveolar echinococcus was equally frequent in women and men

A pandemic wave of influenza, which began in the spring of 1957 in Southwest Asia, during the spring and summer months covered most of the countries of the world. In some regions of the USSR, epidemic outbreaks of influenza in May - June 1957 did not spread widely, and only in late September and early October the incidence of influenza in the USSR increased sharply.