chicken cholera
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chicken cholera
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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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
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
He successfully combatted cattle anthrax and chicken cholera by vaccination.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Pasteur has discovered two such vaccine viri—one for chicken cholera and the other for charbon.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
Mrs. Beamis sniffed here just as she sniffed in the drawing-room, and she said, one night, something about sentiment, as if she was referring to chicken cholera.
From The Ghost Girl by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
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