More Recent Asian Plague Outbreaks
- In 1855, the so-called "Third Pandemic" of bubonic plague broke out in Yunnan Province, China.
- Another outbreak happened in China in 1910. It went on to kill more than 10 million, many of them in Manchuria.
- A similar outbreak in British India left about 300,000 dead from 1896 through 1898. This outbreak began in Bombay (Mumbai) and Pune, on the country's west coast.
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