Editing Ningbo (section)

=== World War II ===
During WWII in 1940, between 80% and 90% of Ningbo's population fled Ningbo, leaving primarily the elderly behind.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=waklDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|title = Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China|isbn = 9780520254459|last1 = MacKinnon|first1 = Stephen R.|date = 21 May 2008| publisher=University of California Press }}</ref> The Japanese bombed Ningbo with ceramic bombs full of [[flea]]s carrying the [[bubonic plague]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1135368.stm|title=Japan bombed China with plague-fleas |website=news.BBC.co.uk |date=25 January 2001 |access-date=26 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603122452/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1135368.stm|archive-date=3 June 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> An outbreak of bubonic plague followed. Bacteriologist Huang Ketai reported that at least 109 people died from the plague in Ningbo in November and December 1940.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2001-01-25 |title='Japan bombed China with plague-fleas' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1135368.stm |access-date=2024-10-04 |language=en-GB}}</ref> According to Daniel Barenblatt, imperial planes loading germ bombs for bubonic dissemination over Ningbo was recorded on film in 1940.<ref>Daniel Barenblatt, ''A Plague upon Humanity'', 2004, p. 32</ref>