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The plague lasted 7 months and killed 60,000 people. [citation needed] The bubonic plague continued to circulate through different ports globally for the next fifty years; however, it was primarily found in Southeast Asia. The 1894 Hong Kong plague had particularly high death rates, 90%. [60]
Seneca nation, North America Measles: Unknown [60] 1592–1593 Malta plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1592–1593 Malta: Bubonic plague: 3,000 [61] 1592–1593 London plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1592–1593 London, England Bubonic plague: 19,900+ [62] 1596–1602 Spain plague epidemic (part of the second ...
Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 inhabitants to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [178] Cairo suffered more than fifty plague epidemics within 150 years from the plague's first appearance, with the final outbreak of the second pandemic there in the 1840s. [115]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. Disease caused by Yersinia pestis bacterium This article is about the disease caused by Yersinia pestis. For other uses, see Plague. Medical condition Plague Yersinia pestis seen at 200× magnification with a fluorescent label. Specialty Infectious disease Symptoms Fever, weakness ...
The outbreak lasted from 1852 to 1860. 23,000 deaths were recorded in Britain alone [99] The outbreak in Britain led to immigrants fleeing their homes and immigrating to America. This started the third significant and most deadly spread of cholera in America. This outbreak spread through the Mississippi River.
The San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 was an epidemic of bubonic plague centered on San Francisco's Chinatown. It was the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. [1] The epidemic was recognized by medical authorities in March 1900, but its existence was denied for more than two years by California's Republican governor Henry ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. Plague or The Plague may refer to: Agriculture, fauna, and medicine Plague (disease), (commonly referred to as bubonic plague or black death), caused by infectious bacteria Yersinia pestis An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural) A pandemic caused by such a disease A ...
The pneumonic plague is the only form of the plague capable of person-to-person transmission, which occurs during droplet-respiration, or breathing, as opposed to other forms of the plague. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] The 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak was the last instance of aerosol transmission of the plague in the United States. [ 12 ]