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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 ...
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Bubonic plague hits San Francisco
Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout ... On March 6, 1900, a city health officer autopsied a deceased Chinese man and found organisms in the body that looked like plague.