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an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food

So far, 21 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in a remote southern Philippine township.

I carried the infection of crime with me, and she has caught it as she would the typhus fever, the cholera, the plague!
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Yet cholera doesn't come close to TB in its frequency of literary occurrence.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
A guard said something to Louie that stuck in his head: Hiroshima had been hit by cholera.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
Many had died in a cholera epidemic and they'd been buried in haste in wooden boxes and the boxes were rotting and falling open.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
Her parents died of cholera.
Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
He died of cholera in 1831, but not before 'He-gelianism' had gained an enormous following at nearly all the universities in Germany.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
When you get settled in your next place, you will be a vegetarian caring for dogs with the mange, cats with the cholera and cows with the epizootic.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
This was the soil on which my great-grandfather had married his third wife a year before dying in the cholera epidemic that hit Kabul in 1915.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
In these winds one felt the breath of the cholera.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Enoch said, "You mean things other than rats and cholera and whatever sorts of mad trolls live beneath crypts?"
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
Can't we start rumors about cholera or something?
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
Oxygen! nobody knows what that may be—is it any wonder the cholera has got to Dantzic?
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
I lost him the first cholera season.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
Officials were concerned about the spread of E. coli, the risk of typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
Their impulse is to go at this thing like a Mafia button man ... or a scared relative burying a cholera victim.
Stephen King -- Cujo
Something always comes along, cholera duty in India and things like that.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
But there was no clean water and people started dying from cholera.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
"If it's typhus or cholera or any number of other things, these may help.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
But cholera choke him anyway!
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep

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