smallpox

184862_fortepan_82459_budapest_fovaros_leveltara._leveltari_jelzet_hu.bfl.xv.19.d.1.07.135_klosz_1900.jpg Reporting infectious patients was ordered 140 years ago in Budapest Diseases and epidemics are part of our history, as we have seen in the last year and a half. In the XIX. century people began to recognize how each disease spreads and how to prevent them. The new epidemiological rules came into force in Budapest 140 years ago, on 1 July 1881. The obligation to report, and quarantine still helps to control epidemics today.

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