Chapter 1545

• Cholera and plague were both serious infectious diseases, with strong infectivity and potential deadliness.
• For example, cholera first showed up in the Indian subcontinent, especially in the Ganges Delta area. The local custom of water burial (which meant throwing dead bodies into the Ganges and letting them float downstream) made it really easy for cholera and other plagues to spread.
• Back then, medicine wasn't that advanced, and for Southeast Asia, there was a huge outbreak that was really hard to control.