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It is known that 30–40% of people in the world population are sensitized to pollen. This phenomenon is exacerbated in contaminated and urbanized areas. Wormwood is one of the main herbaceous allergenic plants, and its pollen is among the ten global aeroallergens. An allergy to it is a common phenomenon on a global scale. The role of pollen the etiology of pollinosis is usually in tandem with wormwood pollen established in Russia, Central Asia and Kazakhstan, Europe and America. The purpose of this article was to develop a pollen strategy for wormwood and pollen as the leading aeroallergen and assessment of their standardized contribution to the aerobiological situation. The SEM images of the studied pollen of wormwood do not show pronounced changes in the structure and sculpture, since it is tolerant to the effects of pollutants. Different types of deformation and modification of sculptural elements were revealed in pollen from the haze family, since their pollen selectively reacts to various pollutants. The strategy for pollen from wormwood and haze pollen is that, due to its strong, prickly exine, and lipophilicity, weed pollen is a very good biological accumulator of all types of gaseous or solid pollutants. In general, this accumulation depends on the physicochemical processes at the surface or cytoplasmic level, independent of the physiological state of pollen. Many biological agents, such as bacteria and fungal spores, can accumulate on the surface layer of the pollen shell and be used for bioindication.

The epidemiological situation of parasitic diseases in Kyrgyzstan is unfavorable, especially for echinococcosis and alveococcosis, although there is a tendency to reduce the incidence of enterobiasis and ascariasis. Students are a risk contingent, since they do not conduct systematic examinations to identify a particular parasitic pathology, as is done in children and adolescent age groups. In addition, the main problem of the prevalence of parasitic diseases is not resolved – the preventive focus. he purpose of this work was: 1) a survey of first-year students of the medical faculty of KRSU and respondents from the Internet community to assess the level of awareness and risk of infection with parasitic diseases; 2) prevention: the development of a self-help program for parasitic diseases, as well as the publication and distribution of an information leaflet on the most common parasitic diseases (giardiasis, echinococcosis, alveococcosis, ascariasis and enterobiasis). A specially developed questionnaire for assessing the awareness and risk of infection with parasitic diseases included questionnaire data (5 questions) and 15 questions for assessing the risk factors for parasitic diseases among respondents and assessing the level of awareness of the ways they were infected. The comparative sample included: 120 first-year students of adolescent age (18–20 years old) from the medical faculty of KRSU specializing in General Medicine and 202 people aged 18–25 from the Internet community. By gender, among the surveyed students, girls predominated — 60%, boys accounted for 40%. Conversely, male respondents dominated the Internet sample (60%), and 40% belonged to women. The survey involved students living in the city (70%), and only 30% — in the villages. 91% of Internet respondents lived in cities, and 9% of them in villages. The questionnaire of first-year students of the Faculty of Medicine of KRSU and respondents from the Internet community reflected knowledge gaps regarding parasitic diseases transmitted primarily by water, alimentary and contact-household. For the effective prevention of parasitic diseases, we have developed a self-help program addressed to students and information leaflets.

More than 12,000 species belong to the Poaceae family globally; 300 species grow in Kyrgyzstan, anemophilous and releasing a huge amount of pollen into the atmosphere. Poaceae pollen is currently considered the leading airborne biological pollutant (PM10) and the leading cause of pollen allergy worldwide. She is one of the top global aeroallergens. Poaceae pollen has common features: small size, homogeneous morphology, high pollen production and abundance of species. The aim of this work was to study the effect of environmental pollutants on the pollen of Poaceae plants, the classification of identified teratomorphoses and assessment of their specific contribution to the aerobiological situation. The study of Poaceae pollen from various observation points of Kyrgyzstan using scanning electron microscopy revealed teratomorphoses of varying degrees of complexity: 1) deformation; 2) perforation; 3) fragmentation; 4) complex changes in the sculptural elements of the exine surface; 5) combined teratomorphosis, including several types with the transformation of one modification into another. This article summarizes the results of studies reflecting the effects of environmental pollutants on Poaceae pollen, and ultimately on the severity of symptoms and the prevalence of pollinosis.