Synonyms for cholera
ˈkɒl ər əcholer·a

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1. cholera, Asiatic cholera, Indian cholera, epidemic choleranoun

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

   Synonyms:
   epidemic cholera

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1. List of paraphrases for "cholera":

   anger, vibrio, cholerae

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1. Clark Spencer Larsen:

   If we found the DNA, we could see how cholera has evolved and compare it to what the bacteria is like today, that's the first step to possibly finding a cure.

2. Steve Schmidt:

   The important thing is to quickly collect as many of the carcasses as possible, to prevent other birds from feeding on the infected birds, biologists observed about 20 eagles in the vicinity of some of the carcasses. Because of a delayed incubation period it is uncertain where these eagles might be located, if and when the avian cholera affects them.

3. Rita Colwell:

   These are interesting organisms and range in scale from massive global epidemics -- cholera -- to infrequent but lethal infections -- Vibrio vulnificus.

4. Jamie McGoldrick:

   As a result of that, organizations who are in areas where cholera has broken out have had to use resources that they would have otherwise programmed for something like food insecurity or malnutrition, what we are doing right now is robbing Peter to pay Paul.

5. Patrick Hamilton:

   And over the next two years we will begin to see in cities like Aleppo potentially the rise of these big health epidemics that we haven't seen in this context until now - typhoid, cholera and so on.