Although this revelation is a little overdue, I just realized that in the popular movie and book The Secret Garden an outbreak of cholera is what kills Mary Lennox's parents and ultimately forces her to move to England. I found a clip on Youtube from the 1987 version of the movie which shows Mary's parents becoming infected and the people of India trying to flee the disease.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgqwyFqx6oE
The clip cuts off before it is shown, but Mary's mother, father, and a majority of her servants die the morning after contracting the disease, illustrating cholera's high virulence; Mary goes to sleep with parents and wakes up the next morning an orphan.
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