ORGANIZATION@1 was put under quarantine , and the port was blockaded , but in December of that year the disease spread to LOCATION@1 and from there , it rapidly made its way across the country , killing an estimated NUMBER@1 people .

But in December of that year cholera was in LOCATION@1 and it spread across the country killing about NUMBER@1 people PERSON@1 was one of the first to die in the epidemic .
