Cholera w704

Cholera

By pvnorthern

  • origin

    The epidemic of cholera started in Bengal,India
  • Period: to

    timespan

  • Gets carried across the border

    The virus is caught by sailors in the summer of 1832 and moves to Canada.

  • first documentation of cholera

    The first recorded documentation of the disease was in New York,it was recorded when citizens gathered in July at the town hall as the epidemic had reached it's peak, and many were in need of treatment and the streets were bare.

  • contaminates water supply

    after to going to canada and New York it contaminates the water in the city supply

  • Second Outbreak

    A second outbreak happened in St. Louis killing an estimated 4.300

  • Health board

    the health board was built in New York to deal with this epademic

  • Final outbreak

    the final outbreak happened Alabama killing 128 people