How to Use cholera in a Sentence

cholera

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• Millions of Yemenis are at risk of starving or are in the clutches of a cholera epidemic.
  — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2018
• Public health officials fear cholera and typhoid outbreaks.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• For instance, bacteria that cause cholera, botulism, and dysentery all do so with the help of toxins encoded by prophage.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2018
• But thousands have died from a cholera epidemic catalyzed by malnourished people streaming into camps, and famine still stalks a large part of Africa.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• And there was still the possibility of some devastating epidemic as cholera running unchecked through the population.
  — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
• When the cholera epidemic hit in 1873, the scramble to get out of deadly Birmingham led people to the clear streams of Shades Creek.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Sixteen years and six kids later, in mid-July, Harriett succumbed to cholera while visiting her sisters and her mother in Cincinnati.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Sanitation and water treatment largely ensure that diseases like typhoid and cholera, which spread through drinking water, are virtually non-existent in many parts of the world.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• The town had previously suffered from typhoid, malaria and cholera outbreaks while using the river and acequias, dating to the 1700s, for water.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Polk died from cholera, just three months after leaving the White House.
  — CBS News, 11 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Mr Baher does not recall an outbreak of cholera in the past ten years.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• April 2017 - A cholera outbreak begins in Yemen amid war.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 19 May 2021
• In the United Kingdom, cholera swept away thousands in just hours.
  — David Rosner, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2020
• The British public linked the appearance of cholera to other crises overtaking the country.
  — David Rosner, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024