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Europe Fears Cholera Pest
London, England—With cholera epidemic throughout Russia and Southern Italy and with scattered cases in Austria, Germany, Holland and Finland and Asia, from Southern India to the Chinese frontier, British health authorities view the situation with alarm.
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International Sanitary Conferences
The twelfth International Sanitary Conference opened in Paris on 7 November 1911 and closed on 17 January 1912 with 41 countries being represented. This was the first conference to be held after the creation of the Office international d'hygiène publique in 1907-1908.
Wikipedia →First Balkan War
The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan states' combined armies overcame the initially numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ott
Wikipedia →1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak
The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak was a cholera outbreak the Romanian Army suffered during the Second Balkan War of 1913 against the Kingdom of Bulgaria. The first case of an infected Romanian soldier occurred on 13 July 1913. A week later, on 20 July, the cases were 2,000. This number rose so
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