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2 unusual facts about Third plague pandemic


Third plague pandemic

At this time, British health officials began to press for widespread vaccination using Waldemar Haffkine’s plague vaccine, although the government stressed that inoculation was not compulsory.

The British colonial government in India pressed medical researcher Waldemar Haffkine to develop a plague vaccine.


Peak District Reservation Ordinance, 1904

In 1894, the deadly Third Pandemic of Bubonic plague spread from China to Hong Kong, causing 100,000 deaths in Canton alone within two months.


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