Much more lethal: call it the Red Death. Africans only get a mild fever and rash, anyone with the AKCR1 gene (the rest of humankind) gets a cytokine storm and dies.
[ Sorry China, you weren't even doing slavery, and now only archaeologists can read Chinese... ]
Would there be much healthcare to pay for in 1912 ? Free morphine and plaster casts?
[ ok, I guess hospice care for TB patients ]
EDIT: according to Getzen "The Growth of Health Spending in the USA: 1776 to 2026", health care spending between 1910 and 1920 was about 3% of GDP and grew to 4%...
"You there, sitting lotus-style beside the road! Come here and tell me about this land I'm in the midst of conquering. Especially the local religions."
"Gladly, O great conqueror; but military might is a mere illusion and the desire for it only brings suffering..."