354 years later, to the day, officials in Portland, Oregon, are practicing for a plague outbreak. It's no wonder that Pepys and his neighbors trembled at the first appearance of plague in London. Another plague outbreak started in rural southwest China and reached Hong Kong in 1894. In San Francisco, it kicked off a 1907 outbreak that left the western U.S. with its own endemic plague reservoir today. The plague reached London by September 1896, when two sailors died aboard ships from Mumbai docked in the Thames.

Source: Forbes May 01, 2019 01:52 UTC