How to Use cholera in a Sentence

cholera

noun
  • He is thought to be the first cholera case in Kingston.
    Jim Downs, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
  • They were sent by the hundreds to fight cholera in Haiti and Ebola in West Africa in the 2010s.
    Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Did all the members of the other team come down with cholera during the game?
    Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 29 July 2019
  • The state accounts for the biggest share of the 653 cholera deaths recorded in the country as a whole by the NCDC.
    Reuters, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Read More Trump didn’t want to give Haiti $11 million for cholera.
    Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, 15 June 2018
  • The children's agency has sent a team to the area to work on limiting the spread of cholera.
    Larry Madowo, Saskya Vandoorne and Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 24 May 2021
  • In 2017, more than a million Yemenis caught cholera, and the disease is again on the rise.
    Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 21 May 2019
  • Macron and Le Pen is like choosing between the plague or cholera.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The lack of toilets has prompted fears of a cholera outbreak.
    New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • The threat of cholera and the risk of death exhilarated him.
    The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • So far no cholera deaths have been confirmed, the report said.
    Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
  • The Quaker City had just come from Italy, where cholera was rampant.
    John J. Miller, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The children's agency is sending a team to the area to work on limiting the spread of cholera.
    Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • Clean water is scarce and the country faces a cholera outbreak.
    Edith M. Lederer, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Rape, cholera and rubble seemed the only things in great supply.
    Jeffrey A. Engel, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
  • The news of cholera spreading from Asia into Russia was the least of his worries.
    The Economist, 6 June 2020
  • April 2017 - A cholera outbreak begins in Yemen amid war.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 19 May 2021
  • John Snow showed that London's cholera outbreak arose from bad water, not the moral failings of the poor.
    Yvette Cabrera, Wired, 2 Jan. 2021
  • In 2011, Cuba was the first country to send doctors to Haiti to fight a cholera epidemic.
    Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020
  • The method has since been used to learn more about other diseases such as malaria, flu, typhoid and cholera.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Their island idyll is cut short by tragedy, which coincides with a cholera outbreak in the city.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • Even the striking outfits and headpieces that symbolize the spread of cholera were drawn from the opera’s setting.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Tuesday’s shutoff comes as the country is still reeling from the worst cholera outbreak in a decade.
    Fox News, 25 Sep. 2019
  • In 1832 the edge of a worldwide pandemic of cholera washed up on the East Coast of the U.S., carried into port cities by ships plying trade routes.
    Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The war has killed tens of thousands of people and has put 10 million people at risk of famine and the world's worst cholera epidemic.
    NBC News, 20 June 2019
  • Some 8 million people are on the brink of famine, and more than 1 million have been infected with cholera.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
  • That year a cholera outbreak in central London killed more than 500 people in just two weeks.
    The Economist, 21 May 2020
  • For decades, scientists have tracked the spread of diseases such as polio and cholera by sampling sewage.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Measles, cholera and other preventable diseases have spread.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 May 2024
  • The contaminants included untreated sewage, which caused cholera and typhoid outbreaks that claimed thousands of lives, and coal tar.
    Rana Hajirasouli, Harvard Business Review, 27 June 2024

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