chicken cholera

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. fowl cholera.

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Etymology

Origin of chicken cholera

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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

While working on the bacilli of splenic fever, Pasteur had isolated the bacillus of chicken cholera, had cultivated it and had inoculated chickens with it, developing the disease.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

To prevent and cure chicken cholera, renovate the coops thoroughly then saturate the apartments with kerosene oil.

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