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The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
| https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK | 07/09/25 |
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Date: July 9th, 2025 1:41 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Regardless of the balance of causes, from the late nineteenth century through to the First World War, India faced multiple epidemics of infectious disease, including of malaria, cholera, influenza, and plague.
For instance, the bubonic plague, which arrived in India in 1896 on the heels of a massive famine, claimed at least ten million lives over the next two decades. Up to 95% of global mortality in this, the third great wave of plague in recorded history, occurred in India, even while the European population in the colony was largely insulated from the disease.
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