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/^t/The end of twentieth century, in which we all live, is the period characterised by the highly developed technology and quite advanced medicine. Today, thanks to great medical knowledge people are not affraid of such illnesses as bubonic plague or other epidemic cases, which in the past used to cause a great number of deaths and deteriorated human population. However, although the specialists at present are able to make use of their knowledge and experience and can apply it in medical treatment of epidemic outbreaks, such cases should by no means be neglected. On the contrary they should be picked up and controlled as soon as the first symptoms appear, and whenever there is a danger of epidemic outbreak the preventive procedures must be taken in order not to let the disease spread out and to protect other people from other countries from the epidemic attack.