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The third cholera pandemic (1852–60) was the third major outbreak of cholera originating in India in the nineteenth century that reached far beyond its borders. In Russia more than one million people died of cholera. In 1853–54 the epidemic in London claimed over 10000 lives and there were 23000 deaths for all of Great Britain. This pandemic was considered to have the highest fatalities of the 19th-century epidemics.

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