8 févr. 1829 - The second Cholera Pandemic

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1829 that another serious outbreak of cholera reached all the way into Europe and the Americas. Cholera emerged in the major cities of Russia, Moscow and St. Petersburg, and spread to Finland and Poland along various trade routes. Using these routes, it made its way to Germany and England. By 1832, cholera had spread to Canada and the United States, where 5,000 people died in New Orleans alone. The outbreak continued to spread south to Mexico and Cuba from there.

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