US EditionYugoslav virologist who isolated smallpox virus dies
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, despite her retirement, she became active and used her advice to emphasize the importance of vaccination and epidemiological measures.
Renowned Serbian virologist Ana Gligić died in Belgrade at the age of 92.
Ana Gligić, a renowned virologist whose work contributed greatly to the fight against infectious diseases, including the 1972 smallpox epidemic in Yugoslavia, when she managed to isolate the virus, has died at the age of 91.
The famous virologist Dr. Ana Gligić, head of the laboratory of the Institute “Torlak” at the time of the 1972 smallpox epidemic, died this morning in Belgrade, at the age of 91, reports RTS.
The famous virologist Dr. Ana Gligić, head of the laboratory of the Torlak Institute at the time of the 1972 smallpox epidemic, died this morning in Belgrade, at the age of 91. During the epidemic, she was able to isolate the variola vera virus, and her scientific work on the detection of the marburg virus and muscle fever is world famous. When Serbia and the world were hit by the coronavirus pandemic, she activated from retirement and warned th…
She was one of the heroines of the fight against the last European smallpox epidemic, which hit the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, mostly Kosovo and Metohija, and Serbia in the winter and spring of 1972.
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