Six people have died of tick-born encephalitis in Primorye this year, krai health officials report. Deaths occurred in Spassk, Vladivostok, Artem, Kavalerovo, and Lesozavodsk. The krai sanitary center said 69 people have been diagnosed with the disease this year, and all have been hospitalized.
Doctors expect an increase in infections by the end of the month, when temperatures rise.
Facing fell from apartment buildings on Nekrasovskaya and Stoletiya Street on Sunday, though no one was injured. Lotuses began flowering on Central Primorye's lakes and rivers a week earlier than usual, thanks to heavy rain in May and unusually high summer temperatures, biologists report. The delicate flower had stopped growing on Kazenny Lake in the Anuchinsky region due to the incorrect use of pesticides for growing rice nearby, but lotuses returned thanks to local biologists' recultivation efforts. Vandals ruin coral exhibits Vandals destroyed a number of coral exhibits at Far Eastern State University biological museum July 21, resulting in hundreds of millions of rubles in damage. The vandals also stole exhibit descriptions, making it impossible to identify when or where the specimens were found, or who discovered them.