Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague,1894-1901 - Myron Echenberg - Google Books

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"The 1800s were, from Jenner to Pasteur to Koch, the years in which more progress was made in controlling infectious disease than in the previous 10,000, yet at the end of that century Plague swept round the world and killed multitudes as if to admonish us…