ERADICATION OF TESCHEN DISEASE (TESCHOVIRUS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS) IN FORMER CZECHOSLOVAKIA Prof. MVDr

According to international reporting on Teschen disease (Teschovirus encephalomyelitis) occurrence, the most critical situation was in the territory of former Czechoslovakia where this disease was discovered in the early 1930’s and identified by professor Dr Antonín Klobouk as a virosis initially called „encephalomyelitis enzootica suum non purulenta“. After the Second World War this infection, called also «Klobouk’s disease», was included among national priority diseases to be eradicated. This was achieved in 1973 after the elimination of the last case. The recent report on Teschovirus encephalomyelitis in francophone Haiti, i.e. in Western Hemisphere, inspired the author to present Czechoslovak experience with the control and eradication of this infection what could be for somebody useful information.