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Cholera, 1912. Death, the grim reaper, decimating a column of Turkish soldiers During the First Balkan War (1912-1913) between Turkey and the Balkan League (Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro), the Turkish army was ravaged by a cholera epidemic, which caused 100 deaths a day. Illustration from Le Petit Journal. (Paris, 1 December 1912).