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Christians") were expelled from the city and their belongings were burnt. In August, due to the spread of the plague, the request to allow people to flee the city was approved, Caragea asking the
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An estimated 60,000 people died of the plague in the two years, 20–30,000 of them in
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People with immunity to the disease were hired as undertakers, and walked from door to door to gather corpses. The corpses were taken to the mass graves in Dudeşti and buried there. Often, dying people were taken also and buried alive, and sometimes beaten to death. An undertaker squad once reported
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Wallachian government show that most of the decrees were related to the plague. Among the restrictions, meetings in pubs and coffee shops were forbidden and alcohol was
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Government clerks and priests had to check each house for plague-infected people, all the foreigners and non-residents were expelled from the city, and the beggars were sent to monasteries outside
Bucharest. The money which came from the counties where the plague was spread (Ilfov, Vlaşca, Teleorman
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The highest mortality was in
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to take care to avoid contact with the villagers. To avoid crowds, markets and schools were closed down, most judicial proceedings were stopped, and the people in the
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1346:Disasters in Bucharest
1326:Second plague pandemic
1229:Sixth cholera pandemic
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584:18th century
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471:(1545, 1576)
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393:Roman Plague
362:(165–180 AD)
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303:and notable
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1279:(2009–2010)
1267:(1977–1979)
1261:(1968–1970)
1255:(1961–1975)
1249:(1957–1958)
1243:(1919–1930)
1237:(1918–1920)
1235:Spanish flu
1231:(1899–1923)
1225:(1889–1890)
1223:Russian flu
1219:(1881–1896)
1213:(1863–1879)
1207:(1855–1860)
1201:(1852–1860)
1195:(1829–1851)
1189:(1816–1826)
1183:(1557–1559)
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1101:(2019–2020)
1095:(2019–2020)
1093:DRC measles
1047:(2018–2020)
1015:(2016–2022)
1003:(2015–2016)
959:(2013–2016)
953:(2013–2014)
951:Chikungunya
917:(2010–2019)
911:(2009–2010)
893:(2008–2017)
887:(2008–2009)
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839:(2002–2004)
821:(1998–1999)
802:(1972–1973)
766:(1910–1911)
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725:(1862–1863)
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689:(1837–1838)
671:(1813–1814)
665:(1812–1819)
635:(1793–1798)
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593:(1707–1708)
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562:(1665–1666)
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538:(1633–1644)
526:(1629–1631)
495:(1592–1593)
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431:(1485–1551)
425:(1346–1353)
423:Black Death
348: 1330
226:Phanariotes
71:and one in
1315:Categories
1045:Kivu Ebola
800:London flu
215:References
195:quoted by
135:Death toll
101:ispravnics
65:quarantine
47:Phanariote
1277:Swine flu
1247:Asian flu
1165:(541–767)
1134:Argentina
419:(735–737)
413:(664–689)
407:(638–639)
401:(627–628)
389:(541–542)
379:classical
368:(250–266)
301:epidemics
297:Pandemics
197:Ion Ghica
129:Plumbuita
113:Cotroceni
85:Văcărești
69:Teleorman
43:Bucharest
39:Wallachia
1283:COVID-19
1271:HIV/AIDS
849:Bird flu
201:a letter
144:See also
35:epidemic
30:) was a
24:Romanian
333:Ancient
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1155:Global
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1107:(2020)
1089:(2019)
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863:(2006)
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845:(2003)
814:(1994)
808:(1974)
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784:(1947)
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743:(1894)
737:(1871)
731:(1870)
719:(1856)
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693:Typhus
683:(1829)
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648:Modern
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550:(1655)
532:(1633)
520:(1623)
514:(1603)
465:(1520)
459:(1510)
442:modern
50:Prince
440:Early
395:(590)
377:Post-
325:Local
156:Notes
1001:Zika
933:MERS
837:SARS
253:Ziua
125:Obor
350:BC)
203:to
199:in
1317::
345:c.
299:,
164:^
75:.
55:.
26::
1289:)
1287:*
343:(
289:e
282:t
275:v
207:.
123:(
22:(
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