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  • Malarial weather, it would have been once; cholera weather.†  (source)
  • They just announced that there's been an outbreak of cholera at Penn Station.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
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  • But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with Cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.†  (source)
    Cholera = an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food
  • In the early twentieth century, when the laboratory occupied the entire fourth floor of the Biomedical Research Building, crews of technicians worked to eliminate the scourges of yellow fever, malaria, and cholera.†  (source)
  • And when the Count's parents succumbed to cholera within hours of each other in 1900, it was the Grand Duke who took the young Count aside and explained that he must be strong for his sister's sake; that adversity presents itself in many forms; and that if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • For instance, in Jullundhar, instead of moving in with his uncle's family, as the uncle had expected us to—Prakash had lost his parents in a cholera epidemic when he was ten—he rented a two-room apartment in a three-story building across the street from the technical college.†  (source)
  • If it's typhus or cholera or any number of other things, these may help.†  (source)
  • We'd heard that cholera ran rampant because of a nasty water supply.†  (source)
  • "Could have the cholera," said Paul D. "Reckon?"†  (source)
  • Yet cholera doesn't come close to TB in its frequency of literary occurrence.†  (source)
  • The reckless passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash toward a seaside town with her intended.†  (source)
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