Serbia-the autopsy report

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Meanwhile in the dimension of collective narcissism, aloplastic defense and magical thinking...

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Oh, by the way, I am 5th day in quarantine for covid 19. So far...no symptoms.

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It appears that the state of emergency will be declared tomorrow in Serbia. Nice.

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+30 minutes till lock down and counting. Already stores are half empty.

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And that is it. State of emergency has been declared.

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MP's patrolling Belgrade.

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Tomorrow a new measure will be implemented...an curfew.

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Serbia, today, courtesy of nova.rs aka Petraeus TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLPDbvk4mNo

Rage is rising.

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Up to this day the statistics are:

9,362 active cases, 189 dead, 1426 recovered.

Government officials are announcing the weakening of the quarantine measures gradually, while remaining on alert. Mass testing are scheduled to start in the next two weeks.

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It appears that we here have another biological hazard at hand. Due to quarantine, city services were out of function and that lead to the increase in biodiversity. Unfortunately that lead to the reduced insecticide treatment of parks and other "green oasis" in the city. The direct consequence of that is the population explosion of ticks and with them the outbreak of Lyme disease. Extensive surveys are underway as of this week and they already show grim result, 1 in 5 ticks are the carriers of Lyme.

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After losing 200 kg of cocaine, the war of Montenegro clans gets more bloodier in Belgrade. This is the hit of Davoriin Baltic, that happened on January 1st 2020. At that time, with him was a police officer, his relative. He was killed while she was left unharmed.

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Tomorrow, the govt will vote on ending the state of emergency, which is the highest level of its functioning in the crisis situation. Than the level will drop to emergency situation, which is a normal life but under surveillance or monitoring measures. People are pretty pissed off and the political game continues as the elections are getting near. There is an unease in the air so thick that you can almost touch it.

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And its done. We are clear, the lock down ended today.

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It is amazing how things can't change. The favourite Balkan thing is back, the art of drawing and re drawing borders. Past is the future, future is the past while the present is wasted on the dreams of the future and the memories of the past. This last Orban's post, pissed off Croatia pretty bad.

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On December 20th 1971, Ibrahim Hoti, than an 35 year old Albanian Muslim from Kosovo was in the waiting room of the Skopje’s clinic, waiting to get his shoot, before his journey to the Middle East. As an devoted Muslim, he was getting ready for a Hajj and was thrilled about it. He was a part of a group of 24 men, pilgrims from former Yugoslavia that got the chance to fulfill the dream of visiting the most important Islamic sites, such as Baghdad, Karbala,Najaf, Mecca and Medina and other holy places in Iraq, Iran and Syria. By the mid January 1972 they were on their way. The bus that was transporting them was from the carrier “Transkop” whom had an headquarters in Bitola, a city in today’s Northern Macedonia.

His hajii went really well and Ibrahim returned to Yugoslavia on February 15th 1972.

On that same day, he arrived at his hometown of Danjane, in Kosovo. He was greeted by his family,
family friends and many other residents. He was talking about his trip, all the places that many Muslims dream of visiting. After all, Ibrahim Hoti fulfilled one of the five pillars of Islam and that deed earned him instant respect among his neighbors. It was an indeed an extraordinary event.

On February 21st Hoti went to the marketplace in Djakovica, Kosovo where he meet a teacher Latif Mumjic, whom was also a Muslim, and with him he shared his experience. They parted and on that same day Hoti felt exhausted and a bit weak but he attributed that to the long trip from the Middle East.

However, the chain of catastrophic events that will be set from that day, show that Ibrahim Hoti, brought a lot more from the Middle East, than his own spiritual fulfillment.

The history will remember him as the patient zero for the 1972 smallpox outbreak in Yugoslavia.


Latif Mumjic felt ill 12 days later, whom went to see a doctor in the city of Novi Pazar, Serbia. The doctor couldn’t identify the smallpox and gave Latif an penicillin therapy for the throat inflammation. He stayed at his brother Najeb’s house in order to receive the treatment. However, his condition became worse overnight and he was transported via ambulance to the city of Cacak, on March 8th 1972, where he was placed at the dermatology department of the local hospital. The rash on his skin was identified than as an allergic reaction to the penicillin. His health was rapidly deteriorating so the next day he was transported to Belgrade and placed in the trauma room.
The next day, March 9th, Latif felt a bit better. However, this fact lead to another tragic decision. He was brought to the study room and was presented as a case study to more than 200 students of the Belgrade University.

Latif died the next day, on his birthday, February 10th at 21:15 , and was the first fatality of the epidemic that was about to unfold.

At that same moment, the disease was already spreading in Kosovo and after six cases with unusual symptoms were reported, two doctors, MD. Svetislav Zonic and MD Komnen Tmusic, from the department of virology and infectious diseases, located at Pristina’s main hospital, examined the infected and had a little doubt with what they are dealing with and informed the authorities.

Belgrade dispatched on that same night two virologists from the Belgrade Medical University,MD Miomir Kecmanovic and MD Vojislav Suvakovic, both of them WHO specialists whom previously worked in India on smallpox eradication, together with two more specialists from the “Torlak” virology institute whom took the samples from the patients. The next day, the smallpox was confirmed and quarantine was imposed in Kosovo.

However, the connection with the Latif wasn’t established, until his brother Najef developed the same symptoms. But, since the news already were in the papers, the doctor from Novi Pazar informed the authorities and the same team from Kosovo was sent to the city. Latif’s brother Najef, was mad at the doctors and blaming them for his brother’s death, so when first signs of the disease appeared, he didn’t want to go. Najef was a employed at the textile factory and he reported sick on March 19th .

It was than,March 22th 1972, when the virologists from Belgrade, realized the scope of the horror that was in front of them. The disease was circulating for almost a month among population.

Government reacted swiftly, imposing quarantine and deploying military. Borders were closed, all non essential travels were canceled and emergency centers were established. Leading experts from the US, Donald Henderson and Don Francis were flown in.

Parallel with those measures, one of the most massive and fastest vaccination and re vaccination of the entire population of Yugoslavia (than 18 million) took place.

Some 10.000 people were quarantined, 184 contracted the smallpox and 38 of them died.

The epidemic ended in the late May of 1972.


Ibrahim Hoti survived the smallpox and as the later investigation showed, he got the vaccine against smallpox before he went to Hajj. However, there was another person in the waiting room whom told him that the vaccine could cause him to develop rash on his face and body, so Hoti, after receiving the shoot, went to the bathroom and washed the spot with the pure alcohol, neutralizing the vaccine full effect. So after he got infected, he didn’t develop the full scale symptoms of the disease but was infectious to others and that is how the disease spread.


After going to the CDC website regarding the smallpox history, not a single trace of this outbreak was found.

https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html