Spreads Far and Wide: On January 23 the first case of cholera was reported in Lima, Peru, after which the epidemic spread rapidly. Within the short space of two weeks it had spread 2,000km along the coast, and every country in Central America had been affected.
今年元月廿三日，秘魯首都利馬出現首例霍亂病人，之後疫情急速擴散，短短兩星期內，便沿海岸線傳佈了兩千公里之遠，中南美各國多已被波及。