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First cholera pandemic.

1817

EPD

After mass exposure resulting from the destruction of wetlands for industrialization by British colonists, the morphology of cholera changes, making it more contagious and dangerous to humans. The first pandemic originates in Bengal. Bengalis name this new disease "ola," or "the purge."