hog cholera

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. an acute, usually fatal, highly contagious disease of swine caused by an RNA virus of the genus Pestivirus, characterized by high fever, lack of appetite, diarrhea, and lethargy.

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hog cholera British  

noun

1. the US term for swine fever

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Etymology

Origin of hog cholera

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Example Sentences

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hog cholera

Statistics on hog cholera discloses an average loss of $30,000,000 a year for 40 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

With this idea they immunized pigeons against hog cholera.

From Time Magazine Archive

But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths were all attributable to swine fever, or to hog cholera or some other epidemic disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month Rockefeller sent two experts to Brazil with 250,000 cubic centimeters of vaccine to combat hog cholera.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this time, it is said by the old settlers that hog cholera thinned out the nobility a good deal, whether directly or indirectly they do not say.

From Comic History of England by Nye, Bill