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1812 Cholera in Jessore, India.
1826 Cholera epidemic begins in India
1831 Cholera in Hamburg.
1848 Cholera epidemic in New York kills 5000.
1854 An epidemic of cholera in London kills 10,000. Dr John Snow traces the source of one outbreak (that killed 500) to a single water pump, validating his theory that cholera is water-borne, and forming the starting point for epidemiology.
1854 An epidemic of cholera in London kills 10,000. Dr John Snow traces the source of one outbreak (that killed 500) to a single water pump, validating his theory that cholera is water-borne, and forming the starting point for epidemiology.
1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.
showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854]].
1883 Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (German bacteriologist) discovers the cholera bacillus.
1892 Cholera in Hamburg, Germany
1970 A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul.
1970 A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia.
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