Yersin identifies the plague bacterium
The Black Death's microbe is found in a straw hut
The third plague pandemic spread from China's Yunnan province and in 1894 reached Hong Kong, from where shipping carried it around the world. In June 1894 the Swiss-French doctor Alexandre Yersin, working in a hastily built hut, isolated the bacterium later named Yersinia pestis. By estimates the pandemic killed more than 12 million people, most of them in India.
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