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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
The haunting history of plague doctors and their beaked masks
However the most distinctive part of the outfit was the headgear. Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a beak-like ...