Cholera is a disease spread mostly by water and food that has been contaminated with faeces that contain cholera-causing bacteria. It breaks my heart just thinking about this.
For someone to be said to be suffering from cholera, they must have ingested human excrement. It means one way or another, you have been ingesting somebody's feaces.
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