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Sep 12, 2017 · The first cholera pandemic emerged out of the Ganges Delta with an outbreak in Jessore, India, in 1817, stemming from contaminated rice. The disease quickly spread throughout most of India, modern ...
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- Plague of Justinian—No One Left to Die. Yersinia pestis, formerly pasteurella pestis, was the bacteria responsible for the plague. Here it's seen under optical microscopy X 1000.
- Black Death—The Invention of Quarantine. The people of Tournai bury victims of the Black Death circa 1353. The plague never really went away, and when it returned 800 years later, it killed with reckless abandon.
- The Great Plague of London—Sealing Up the Sick. Scenes in the streets of London during the Great Plague of 1665. London never really caught a break after the Black Death.
- Smallpox—A European Disease Ravages the New World. Smallpox was endemic to Europe, Asia and Arabia for centuries, a persistent menace that killed three out of ten people it infected and left the rest with pockmarked scars.
Feb 27, 2019 · 1817: First Cholera Pandemic. The first of seven cholera pandemics over the next 150 years, this wave of the small intestine infection originated in Russia, where one million people died ...
Apr 8, 2020 · The worst of the outbreak tapered off in the fall of 1666, around the same time as another destructive event—the Great Fire of London. ... The first of seven cholera pandemics over the next 150 ...
Apr 27, 2020 · It only took a matter of weeks for cholera to claim the lives of more than 3,500 of the city’s 250,000 citizens (at a similar death rate, the fatalities in New York City would top 118,000 in 2020).
Mar 3, 2020 · Historians now believe that the fatal severity of the Spanish flu’s “second wave” was caused by a mutated virus spread by wartime troop movements. When the Spanish flu first appeared in ...
Oct 5, 2018 · Wire service reports of a flu outbreak in Madrid in the spring of 1918 led to the pandemic being called the “Spanish flu,” even though it originated elsewhere. Cities scrambled to contain the ...
