[noun] [U] - a serious infection of the bowels caused by drinking infected water or eating infected food, causing diarrhoea, vomiting and often deathSanitary conditions in the camps are non-existent and cholera, typhoid and other epidemics could break out any day.
CHOLERA
Meaning of CHOLERA in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012