The front page of French newspaper Le Petit Parisien, on February 2, 1897, showing Alexandre Yersin vaccinating Chinese patients against the plague. Photo: Getty Images
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China has been plagued, and shaped, by epidemics – it has also overcome them
Historians calculate there have been almost 300 serious epidemics in China, some of which devastated populations and altered the course of history
The front page of French newspaper Le Petit Parisien, on February 2, 1897, showing Alexandre Yersin vaccinating Chinese patients against the plague. Photo: Getty Images
