Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century
Plague
The third plague pandemic was a major bubonic plague pandemic that began in Yunnan, China in 1855. This episode of bubonic plague spread to all inhabited continents in the 1890s and first years of the 1900s, and ultimately led to more than 12 million deaths in India and China, with about 10 million killed in India alone.
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