Prevalence of epilepsy in Croatia: a population-based survey.

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of active epilepsy in Croatia.

Material And Methods: Patient data collected by means of questionnaires completed by primary healthcare physicians; epilepsy was previously confirmed in the patients by neurologists or neuropaediatricans.

Results: One hundred and twenty-seven of 180 (71%) physicians provided the requested information.

[Current results and methods in eradication of typhus fever on the Serbian territory excluding autonomic provinces].

Since 1969 Serbia has been conducting the programme of eradication louse-borne typhus. To this effect of Law on the eradication of communicable diseases has been passed. In addition to Republic Commission, as well as 6 regional commissions, and 18 communal commissions in whose territory the disease is being eradicated, have been formed.