Third plague pandemic
1855–1945 · Event
Plague breaks out of Yunnan, reaches Hong Kong's docks in 1894 and rides the steamship routes to every continent — twelve million dead, most in India.
On these timelines: Pandemics & Plagues, Master, Medicine & Public Health, India, China
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