About the epidemic of King Gia Long and the death of poet Nguyen Du

Currently, all of us are having a headache dealing with the corona virus epidemic. At the beginning of the 19th century there were many calamities similar to those of today. How did the epidemic break out, how did it affect the past, and how did it affect the history that we are inheriting? Europe is also an opportunity to look back.

King Gia Long's Vietnam at that time suspected more than 200,000 deaths from the disease. To overcome the consequences, the Hue court issued public funds for distribution of diagnosis and burial. The population of Vietnam at that time was about 10 million, calculating the total loss of life was 2% (some sources say 4%), a dizzying number, even with a population of 90 million today. .

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