chicken cholera

noun

, Veterinary Pathology.

First recorded in 1880–85

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

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

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

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

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

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