chicken cholera

noun

, Veterinary Pathology.

1. fowl cholera.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chicken cholera¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Pasteur hastened to apply his discovery of the attenuation of the virus of chicken cholera to the virus of splenic fever.

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The particular disease experimented with was that infectious malady of poultry known familiarly as "chicken cholera."

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It took considerable time and trouble to procure fresh cultures of the chicken-cholera microbe.

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Other fowls promptly died, exhibiting all the characteristic symptoms of chicken cholera.

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Then, working on the same lines as for chicken cholera, he proceeded to elaborate vaccine material for anthrax.

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