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Cholera Pandemic II
In the muddy lanes of nineteenth-century Bengal, an invisible threat was already moving. People fetched water, traded goods, and prayed, unaware that the very river that gave them life was quietly carrying something deadly. The warning signs were there, but almost no one recognized them.Before cholera swept across continents, it thrived in the meeting place of water and crowd, in a world certain it understood the rules of sickness and safety. Picture the Ganges delta: a place shaped by monsoon floods, dense villages, and endless movement. Here, survival depended on the river, but so did…
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