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Kolerakyrkogården Klockskog Traditional Cache

Hidden : 11/6/2010
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

[SWE]
En av koleragravplatserna från 1830-talet.
[ENG]
One of the cholera graveyards from the 1830s.
 


[SWE]
Koleran var 1800-talets "pest". Kolera är en magsjukdom med diarré och kräkningar, orsakad av en liten böjd bakterie, Vibrio cholerae. Den sprids med vatten och livsmedel.
Under perioden 1834–73 drabbades Sverige av nio epidemier. Vid den största av dessa, 1834, insjuknade mer än 25.000 personer, av vilka drygt hälften dog.

[ENG]

Cholera was the 1800s "plague". Cholera is a stomach illness with diarrhea and vomiting, caused by a small curved bacteria, Vibrio cholerae. It is spread by water or food.
During the period 1834-73, Sweden suffered nine epidemics. At the largest of these, in 1834, more than 25,000 people fell ill and roughly 12,000 of them died.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[SWE] Gn v geä. [ENG] Xabpx ba jbbq.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)