Word: kosovo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fulfill their religious obligations, a group of well-to-do Yugoslav Moslems made a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina and then visited Baghdad before returning to the Serbian province of Kosovo. Most brought gifts from Iraq. Yugoslav health officials suspect that some also brought back variola major, the most virulent form of smallpox. Two weeks after their homecoming -variola's incubation period-several of the travelers came down with smallpox, triggering an epidemic that has infected 155 and killed at least 28 in just a month. Only now is the outbreak being brought under control...
Postponed Politics. To fight the threat of contamination, hospital visiting privileges were suspended in some parts of the country and a joint session of the federal and Serbian Parliaments was postponed. Foreign tourism fell off sharply. Kosovo was placed under a strict quarantine, and travel from the province was forbidden to all who had not been successfully immunized. When Vuko Dragasevic, Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, tried to enter Macedonia from Kosovo, he was stopped at the border even though he had a vaccination certificate. He is an official in charge of the nationwide immunization program...
Meanwhile, German officials called a smallpox alert after a Yugoslav worker from Kosovo, newly arrived in Hannover, came down with the disease. He was immediately put in isolation, and officials rounded up 665 people known to have had some contact with him. They were being held in quarantine while the search went on for the 666th and last person believed to have been exposed...