Plagues of India
Fig: Quarantine area, during bubonic plague outbreak, Karachi, India. India has unfortunately experienced 2 large plague pandemics: The third plague pandemic and the plague pandemic of 1994. Third plague pandemic(1855-1945) Fig: victims of plague in manchuria The third plague pandemic was a major bubonic plague pandemic that began in Yunnan, China, in 1855 during the fifth year of the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing dynasty. This episode of bubonic plague spread to all inhabited continents, and ultimately led to more than 12 million deaths in India and China, with about 10 million killed in India alone. According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic was considered active until 1981, when worldwide casualties dropped to 200 per year. Plague deaths have continued at a lower level for every year since. The bubonic plague was endemic in populations of infected ground rodents...
