Cholera in example sentence

They commissioned the first epidemiological surveys to identify the source of cholera outbreaks – which could wipe out half the population of a neighborhood in a matter of weeks – and built new waterworks to stop the spread of the disease from the filthy Thames and tainted local pumps.

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Most of the information that we collected on the cholera outbreak didn't come from testing water; it came from forms like this, which documented all the people we failed to help.

It's used for public health awareness campaigns such as the prevention of cholera.

As an extreme example: the disease cholera is caused by a bacterium that thrives in the ocean.

Ebola seems to be rearing its head with much too much frequency, and old diseases like cholera are becoming resistant to antibiotics.

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