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but in the long-term, that argument runs, its legacy was small,
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and clearly nowhere near the order of magnitude of plague and smallpox.
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Well, we'll be deciding among those conflicting views.
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But before we can assess them properly,
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we should look in our usual way at the etiology of cholera,
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at its epidemiology, its symptoms and its course in European
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and North American history.
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Then we'll be in a better position to judge its impact.
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There were seven pandemics of Asiatic cholera,
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the first in 1817 to '23, which was an Asian event.
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The second pandemic was in the 1830s and affected Asia,
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but also Europe for the first time, and North America.