Love in the Time of Cholera (film) average score of 44 out of 100, based on 27 reviews. "Time" rated it "D" and described it as "a serious contender [for] the worst movie ever made from a great novel ... Skip the film; reread the book." In her review in "Entertainment Weekly", Lisa Schwarzbaum also rated it "D" and called it a "turgid and lifeless movie adaptation", opining that "those who have read Gabriel García Márquez's glowing and sexy 1988 novel about one man's grand love for a woman who marries another are bound to be peevishly disappointed ... those who haven't read the book will now
Cholera Hospital nearly 5,000 reported in 1849. Dr. Valey and Dr. Gull, who treated New York City cholera patients at this time, reported that cholera was only contagious when persons came in contact with those who are sick already. They believed that the disease was transmitted when people breathed the air which cholera victims exhaled. The physicians recommended an airy environment for those suffering from the illness. Victims should be kept away from marshes, garbage, and dirty water. They recommended the ill be quarantined at Cholera Hospital. It was selected by the New York City Board of Health to provide the care