1915 typhus and relapsing fever epidemic in Serbia

Epidemic hist February 2022 In the early stages of the First World War, Serbia suffered an epidemic of typhus and relapsing fever.https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2015/03/the-serbian-typhus-epidemic-100-years-on.html The Serbian Typhus Epidemic - 100 years on - European studies blog blogs.bl.uk 2020-04-13 The epidemic first appeared in the late autumn of 1914, after the second Austrian offensive.Fine Brother Miller Louise Alma Books 2018 978-0714545493 Flora Sandes, who started as a volunteer British nurse, recalled the conditions at the hospital in Kragujevac and meeting Dr. Sondermajer for the first time: The hospital, on the outskirts of Kragujevac, was overflowing with patients, both Serbs and POWs. Surgeon Dr. Roman Sondermeyer, the immaculately dressed head of the Military Medical Service of the Serbian army, stepped forward smartly to meet us (...) "Twelve hundred patients, two surgeons, eight nurses, and some five hospital orderlies!" wrote Emily of her shock upon realising how many patients there were and how few staff Louise Miller A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes https://books.google.com/books?id=O4TRmAEACAAJ 16 January 2014 Bloomsbury USA 978-1-84688-245-6 British Military Sanitary Committee to Serbia In 1915, the British military doctor William Hunter headed the British Military Sanitary Committee to Serbia tasked with stopping the epidemic. The epidemic was stopped by June 1915 by introduction of several movement restriction measures and by introduction of two new disinfection methods, the "railway van disinfector", and the "barrel disinfector" now known as the Serbian barrel.https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/william-hunter-0 William Hunter RCP Museum history.rcplondon.ac.uk 2020-04-13Hunter William 1918 New Methods Of Disinfection For The Prevention And Arrest Of Lice-Borne Diseases (Typhus, Relapsing, And Trench Fevers) The British Medical Journal 2 3008 198–201 20310811 0007-1447 In 1920, Hunter published a detailed account on the epidemic in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine.Hunter William 1920 The Serbian Epidemics of Typhus and Relapsing Fever in 1915: Their Origin, Course, and Preventive Measures employed for their Arrest Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 13 Sect Epidemiol State Med 29–158 10.1177/003591572001301502 0035-9157 2152681 19981291 References Category:1915 health disasters Category:1915 in Serbia Category:1910s epidemics Category:Epidemic typhus Category:Disease outbreaks in Serbia Category:Serbia in World War I