Eradication of typhus exanthematicus in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Typhus exanthematicus in Bosnia and Herzegovina held in endemic areas from which especially quickly began spread after 1945. That year, in 1945, one hundred epidemics of typhus fever appeared, with the highest incidence rate in Europe of 215.04 per 1,000. Directions of unique program in the world were to eradicate lice of the body, but also establish monitoring of the recidivism, Brill-Zinsser disease. Since 1971, typhus exanthematicus (classical typhus) hasn't appeared in Bosnia and Herzegovina, so epidemic typhus can considered as an eradicated communicable disease.
Department of Epidemiology and Statics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo, Cekalusa 90, 71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Zlatko
Z
Puvacić
Edina
E
Beslagić
Sukrija
S
Zvizdić
Sandra
S
Puvacić
Jelena
J
Ravlija
Sadeta
S
Hamzić
D000818:Animals; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina / Q000453:epidemiology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000382:microbiology; D008003:Phthiraptera / Q000382:microbiology; D014438:Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission