01190nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001653001100042653001100053653001300064653001200077653001200089653002600101100002000127245012200147856007600269300001400345490000700359050002100366520059700387       2013                            d10aSerbia10aPlague10aMedieval10aleprosy10aHistory10aCommunicable Diseases1 aPetruševski AB00aHistory of infectious diseases development in the old and the Middle Ages with the emphasis on the plague and leprosy  uhttp://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0042-8450/2013/0042-84501307704P.pdf  a704–7080 v70  aPETRUSEVSKI 20133 aFor centuries branded as enigma infectious diseases are
as for the common man, and the scientific community, the
largest item of interest. Their contagiousness, number, as
well as increasing diversity, led to the appearance of enormous
challenges in finding the cause for a more effective
control. Mass infectious diseases such as leprosy and plague
were witnesses and causes of horrific suffering throughout
the ages. The valuable data available to us, recorded by the
physicians and historians, are the best proof of undisputed
reign of illness that marked the old and middle ages.