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chicken cholera

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.
  1. fowl cholera.


Etymology

Origin of chicken cholera

First recorded in 1880–85


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This seems to have been accomplished by a poultry graft ring during the administration of the widely known onetime Mayor Hylan, at which time there also chanced to be an epidemic of chicken cholera.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1880 Louis Pasteur, a French microbiologist, concocted a vaccine against chicken cholera after discovering that weakened cholera organisms, while incapable of making chickens sick, would immunize them against the malady.

From Time Magazine Archive

He successfully combatted cattle anthrax and chicken cholera by vaccination.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is the best known remedy for chicken cholera.

From One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus

There are prepared the vaccines for all those diseases of animals which M. Pasteur has proved can be cured by inoculation, such as chicken cholera, splenic fever, and rouget of swine.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 by Various

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