1903 World Island plague

The 1903 World Island Morphinia epidemic, also known as the World Island plague, was an outbreak of disease caused by the Morphinia bacterium. Morphinia, which is typically found living in tropical ocean climates and affects populations of fish, transferred to humans in spring of 1903 due to poor water treatment in Perrennia. It spread throughout World Island over the course of the next eighteen months, infecting as much as 15% of the population of World Island at the time. The Morphinia bacterium disease in humans typically has a survival rate of just 25%.

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