According to
Leonard Rogers, following an outbreak of cholera at the
Haridwar Kumbh Mela, the epidemic spread to Europe via
Punjab, Afghanistan, Persia, and southern Russia. The last cholera outbreak in the United States was in 1910–1911 when the steamship
Moltke brought infected people to New York City from
Naples. Vigilant health authorities isolated the infected on
Swinburne Island, built in the nineteenth century as a quarantine facility. Eleven people died, including a health care worker at the island hospital. In 1913, the
Romanian Army, while invading
Bulgaria during the
Second Balkan War, suffered
a cholera outbreak that provoked 1,600 deaths. == See also ==