It wasn’t until the work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch in the 1800s that it was discovered germs are the cause of disease. The plague bacteria was finally discovered by Alexandre Yersin in 1894.
But this didn’t wipe it out. Two more deadly waves of the plague hit in the 1500s and 1800s. In fact, scientists think that it may have been around before the 1300s, as there are records of a ...
The third major plague pandemic started in the Yunnan region of China in the mid-1800s and spread along trade routes, ...
The third major plague pandemic started in the Yunnan region of China in the mid-1800s and spread along trade routes, arriving in Hong Kong and Bombay about 40 years later. It eventually reached ...