If you don't get vaccinated you don't get bread! This is how Serbia combated typhus epidemic in 1914

Photo: Tanjug/Zoran Zestic, Facebook

A photo with a clipping from a newspaper article, which shows how our areas advocated for vaccination against typhus, which ravaged Serbia from 1914 until 1915, has now surfaced on social networks.

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The article originated in the town of Cuprija, dated October 11, 1914, and the text states that vaccination against this disease is compulsory.

"Vaccination is compulsory for citizens of both sexes from 5 to 45 years of age," announced the article.

It continues to say that the municipality had warned citizens about the need to get vaccinated in a proclamation, so a decision was made not to allow any household to obtain bread, unless their shopping card was certified by a doctor, stating that they had been immunized.

The typhus epidemic was one of the most severe in our country during the First World War, and most of those who contracted this disease ended up dying.

This photo emerged at a time when Serbia is fighting coronavirus in its third wave, and when all eyes are on getting as many people as possible vaccinated.

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Precisely at this time, a message with this article was sent to member of the Crisis HQ for the fight against Covid 19 Professor Dr. Branislav Tiodorovic.

"You know, I got a message this morning... No one will get bread unless they get vaccinated!," Professor Tiodorovic said while he was on Prva TV's morning program, and then immediately revealed that this was some very old news out of Cuprija:

"It concerned vaccination against typhoid fever... Vaccination was a topic then as well, and it always is when a vaccine exists - whether or not we will get vaccinated."

(Telegraf.rs)