dec 29, 1849 - New York Cholera Epidemic 1849

Description:

A ship of people running from a epidemic in Europe finds its way to New York; though quarantined, cholera is not possible to keep controlled like that and ends up infecting people in New York City, causing a second epidemic in the city with 300 quarantined on Staten Island and over 5000 dead by the end of the event.

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Disease Through History: Important Points in Human Civilization As Told Through Illness

ByReiko C Usami

14 Dec 2018

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Date:

dec 29, 1849

Now

~ 175 years ago