First cholera pandemic

Name: First cholera pandemic
Start: 1817
End: 1824
Location: Jessore, Bengal

1817–1824 · Jessore, Bengal · Asia · Nature

A Ganges delta disease follows trade routes all the way to Russia

In 1817 cholera, long endemic to the Ganges delta, broke out along trade routes and with British troops. It swept South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East, reaching Astrakhan in Russia by 1823. It was the first of seven cholera pandemics.

State: British Empire, British Empire

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