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The first cholera pandemic (1817–1824), also known as the first Asiatic cholera pandemic or Asiatic cholera, began near the city of Calcutta and spread throughout South Asia and Southeast Asia to the Middle East, Eastern Africa and the Mediterranean coast.
The cholera outbreak extended as far as China, Indonesia (where more than 100,000 people succumbed on the island of Java alone) and the Caspian Sea in Europe, before receding. In 1821, it is estimated that up to 100,000 deaths occurred in Korea. Second, 1826–1837
Sep 12, 2017 · By 1820, cholera had spread to Thailand, Indonesia (killing 100,000 people on the island of Java alone) and the Philippines. From Thailand and Indonesia, the disease made its way to China in...
Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century. First appearing in Europe and North America beginning in 1831–1832 and presumed to have come from India, epidemic cholera returned and traveled around the world many times through the end of the century, killing many thousands.
The first six pandemics. Cholera became a disease of global importance in 1817. In that year a particularly lethal outbreak occurred in Jessore, India, midway between Calcutta (Kolkata) and Dhaka (now in Bangladesh), and then spread throughout most of India, Burma (Myanmar), and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Aug 16, 2019 · The cholera epidemics of 1817–21 have few, if any, parallels in the history of the Indian subcontinent. Outbreaks of fever and plague periodically killed large numbers in certain localities, but none appear to have engulfed the entire country or left such devastation in their wake.
During the same period the pestilence moved ward, reaching the East African shore in 1820, spreading over potamia and Persia, and in 1823, extending to Tiflis, Baku, khan, the gateway to Russia and the West. This disease showed resemblance to the cholera, or bilious flux, described in works.
