Second cholera pandemic

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The second cholera pandemic also known as the Asiatic Cholera Pandemic was a Cholera pandemic from 1829-1851 reached Europe, London and Paris in 1832. In London, the disease claimed 6,536 victims; in Paris, 20,000 succumbed (out of a population of 650,000) with about 100,000 deaths in all of France.^[1] The epidemic reached Russia (see Cholera Riots), Quebec, Ontario and New York in the same year and the Pacific coast of North America by 1834.

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This pandemic began, like the first, with outbreaks along the Ganges River delta. From their the disease spread along trade routes to cover most of India. By 1828 the disease had traveled to China and was at the sourthern tips of the Ural Mountains in 1829.

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