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People: Xie He
Topic: cholera pandemic, 1826–1837
Location: Eceabat Canakkale Turkey

cholera pandemic, 1826–1837

Years: 1826 - 1837

The second cholera pandemic (1826–1837), also known as the Asiatic cholera pandemic, is a cholera pandemic that reaches from India across western Asia to Europe, Great Britain, and the Americas, as well as east to China and Japan.

Cholera cause more deaths, more quickly, than any other epidemic disease in the ninetenth century

The medical community now believes cholera to be exclusively a human disease, spread through many means of travel during at the time, and spread through warm fecal-contaminated river waters and contaminated foods.

During the second pandemic, the scientific community varies in its beliefs about the causes of cholera.

“History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”

—Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral ... (2004)