Disease outbreaks and epidemics have always affected the daily lives of thousands of people. Numerous literary works are dedicated to them, e.g. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, The Plague by Albert Camus, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz, Kugina kuća by August Šenoa, to name only a few. Writers anchor the experience of disease outbreaks and epidemics in our collective memory.