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French newspapers report on cholera, imposing xenophobic ideas by calling it an "Asian disease."
Date: 1831
Xenophobia
Asian/Pacific Islander
Epidemics & disease
Public health
By 1832, cholera will have reached pandemic levels in France, killing half of those it infects.
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