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Where did the first cholera pandemic begin?
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A woman with cholera being treated by nurses at St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint-Marc, Haiti, 2010.
The first cholera pandemic began in 1817 in the Ganges delta region of India. Specifically, a lethal outbreak occurred that year in Jessore, located between Calcutta and Dhaka, before spreading across India and eventually reaching Southeast Asia, China, Japan, the Middle East, and eastern Africa via trade routes.12