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During World War II in 1940, Japan bombed Ningbo with ceramic bombs full of fleas carrying the bubonic plague.

Random FactsCuriousOneJune 11, 2016bombed, bombs, bubonic, carrying, ceramic, during, fleas, Japan, ningbo, Plague, War, worldComment

During World War II in 1940, Japan bombed Ningbo with ceramic bombs full of fleas carrying the bubonic plague.[20] According to Daniel Barenblatt, Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda received, with Prince Mikasa, a special screening by Shiro Ishii of a film showing imperial planes loading germ bombs for bubonic dissemination over Ningbo in 1940.[21]"It has been said of the Ningbo fishermen that, 'no people in the world apparently made so great an advance in the art of fishing; and for centuries past no people have made so little further progress.'"[22]

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