Manchurian plague
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Oct 12, 2026
Jessica StahlHOST
So still Yersinia pestis, but not pneumonic plague.
Jessica StahlHOST
Then we have the Great Manchurian Plague of 1910 to 1911, which occurred in northeastern China, not terribly far from the region we're discussing today.
Jessica StahlHOST
Unlike the Black Death or the two other pandemics we just covered, which were predominantly bubonic plague, this outbreak was primarily pneumonic plague, spreading directly from person to person through respiratory droplets.
Jessica StahlHOST
It killed an estimated 60,000 people in just a few months with an extraordinarily high fatality rate.
Sean AylmerHOST
Hasn't happened much in recent times.
Sean AylmerHOST
The biggest outbreak kind of in the last couple of hundred years was the Manchurian Plague in 1910.
Sean AylmerHOST
60,000 people were killed.
Sean AylmerHOST
But it's not surprising.
Don QHOST
you ever notice the sentence they reach for is always the same sentence pneumonia of an unknown ideology unknown like the cause of death clocked out and left its badge on the desk Yakutsk, Siberia.
Don QHOST
A woman named Daria Shipilova, 28 years old, lab tech at the Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia in the Far East, hospitalized around the 29th of September, dead around the 2nd of October.
Don QHOST
The building she worked in was founded in 1934 to deal with the plague.
Don QHOST
The pathogen on the shelves is Yersinia pestis.
Don QHOST
A Thailand trip.
Don QHOST
Hmm.
Don QHOST
A swing toward the Mongolian border where Plague sits in Marmont.
Don QHOST
The watchdog rejected the tube.