A historian with a personal connection to plague duty writes on the parallels between the 19th century bubonic plague and covid-19 On 23 September 1896, the first “official"case of the bubonic plague in India was reported by an Indian physician named A.G.
Viegas from a house near Masjid Bridge in Mandvi district, Bombay Presidency. The patient was suffering from high fever and large tumours.
Other symptoms included swollen lymph glands and eventual gangrene in the extremities, such as toes, fingers, lips and nose.
Without treatment, the patient would succumb within days. Originating in Yunnan, China, the plague—caused by the bite of infected fleas in rodents, or contact with the carcass of an infected rodent in humans—travelled across the