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Exact Match:
- pesthole
- a breeding ground for epidemic disease
Synonyms:
- Augean stables,
- ambulatory plague,
- black death,
- black plague,
- bubonic plague,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- defervescing plague,
- dump,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- glandular plague,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- hole,
- hovel,
- larval plague,
- murrain,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- pest,
- pestilence,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonic plague,
- premonitory plague,
- rookery,
- scourge,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- slum,
- stable,
- sty,
- tenement,
- the slums,
- tuberculosis,
- warren,
- white plague
Related Words:
- hovel
collapse - small crude shelter used as a dwelling related words >
- rookery
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- a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks) related words >
- Augean stables,
- birthplace,
- breeding place,
- brooder,
- cradle,
- dump,
- forcing bed,
- hatchery,
- hole,
- hotbed,
- hovel,
- incubator,
- nest,
- nidus,
- nursery,
- pesthole,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- plague spot,
- slum,
- stable,
- sty,
- tenement,
- the slums,
- warren
- warren
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- a colony of rabbits
- an overcrowded residential area
- a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
- United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974)
- United States writer and poet (1905-1989) related words >
- Augean stables,
- Hydra,
- abri,
- antre,
- bunker,
- burrow,
- cave,
- cavern,
- cove,
- dugout,
- dump,
- foxhole,
- grot,
- grotto,
- hole,
- hotbed,
- hovel,
- lair,
- milk cow,
- mustard,
- pesthole,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- plague spot,
- rabbit,
- rich soil,
- rookery,
- seed plot,
- sewer,
- slum,
- stable,
- sty,
- subterrane,
- subway,
- tenement,
- the slums,
- tunnel
- pestilence
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- a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst" related words >
- Black Death,
- affliction,
- ambulatory plague,
- bane,
- black death,
- black plague,
- blight,
- bubonic plague,
- bugbear,
- burden,
- calamity,
- cancer,
- canker,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- death,
- defervescing plague,
- destruction,
- disease,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- evil,
- glandular plague,
- grievance,
- harm,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- infliction,
- larval plague,
- murrain,
- nemesis,
- open wound,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonic plague,
- premonitory plague,
- running sore,
- scourge,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- thorn,
- torment,
- tuberculosis,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- white plague,
- woe
- pandemic
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- an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world
- existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war"
- epidemic over a wide geographical area; "a pandemic outbreak of malaria" related words >
- ambulatory plague,
- average,
- besetting,
- black death,
- black plague,
- bubonic plague,
- catching,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- common,
- communicable,
- contagious,
- current,
- defervescing plague,
- dominant,
- endemic,
- epidemial,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- glandular plague,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- infectious,
- infective,
- inoculable,
- larval plague,
- murrain,
- normal,
- ordinary,
- pandemia,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- pestiferous,
- pestilence,
- pestilential,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonic plague,
- popular,
- predominant,
- predominating,
- premonitory plague,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- rampant,
- regnant,
- reigning,
- rife,
- routine,
- ruling,
- running,
- scourge,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- sporadic,
- spreading,
- standard,
- stereotyped,
- taking,
- tuberculosis,
- usual,
- white plague,
- zymotic
- slum
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- a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
- visit slums for entertainment or out of curiosity related words >
- Augean stables,
- Bowery,
- Chinatown,
- East End,
- East Side,
- Little Hungary,
- Little Italy,
- West End,
- West Side,
- barrio,
- black ghetto,
- blighted area,
- business district,
- central city,
- city center,
- core,
- downtown,
- dump,
- ghetto,
- greenbelt,
- hole,
- hovel,
- inner city,
- midtown,
- muck,
- outskirts,
- pesthole,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- plague spot,
- red-light district,
- residential district,
- rookery,
- run-down neighborhood,
- shopping center,
- skid,
- skid road,
- skid row,
- slab,
- slums,
- stable,
- stew,
- sty,
- suburbia,
- suburbs,
- tenderloin,
- tenement,
- tenement district,
- the slums,
- uptown,
- urban blight,
- warren
- tenement
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- a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards related words >
- Augean stables,
- acres,
- apartment,
- apartment house,
- chambers,
- chattels real,
- cold-water flat,
- condominium,
- cooperative apartment house,
- demesne,
- domain,
- dump,
- duplex,
- duplex apartment,
- duplex house,
- flat,
- flats,
- garden apartment,
- grounds,
- high-rise apartment building,
- hole,
- honor,
- hovel,
- land,
- landed property,
- lands,
- lodgings,
- lot,
- lots,
- manor,
- messuage,
- parcel,
- penthouse,
- pesthole,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- plague spot,
- plat,
- plot,
- praedium,
- property,
- quadrat,
- railroad flat,
- real estate,
- real property,
- realty,
- rental,
- rookery,
- rooms,
- set of rooms,
- slum,
- stable,
- sty,
- suite,
- tenements,
- the slums,
- toft,
- warren
- epidemic
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- a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
- (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza" related words >
- abounding,
- abundant,
- affluent,
- all-sufficing,
- ambulatory plague,
- ample,
- aplenty,
- average,
- besetting,
- black death,
- black plague,
- bottomless,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- bubonic plague,
- catching,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- common,
- communicable,
- compact,
- contagious,
- copious,
- current,
- defervescing plague,
- diffuse,
- dominant,
- effuse,
- endemic,
- epidemial,
- epigrammatic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- exhaustless,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fat,
- fertile,
- flush,
- full,
- galore,
- general,
- generous,
- glandular plague,
- growth,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- in plenty,
- in quantity,
- inexhaustible,
- infectious,
- infective,
- inoculable,
- larval plague,
- lavish,
- liberal,
- luxuriant,
- many,
- maximal,
- meaty,
- much,
- murrain,
- normal,
- numerous,
- opulent,
- ordinary,
- outbreak,
- overflowing,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- pestiferous,
- pestilence,
- pestilential,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- plenitudinous,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- plenty,
- pneumonic plague,
- popular,
- predominant,
- predominating,
- premonitory plague,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- rampant,
- rash,
- regnant,
- reigning,
- replete,
- rich,
- rife,
- riotous,
- routine,
- ruling,
- running,
- running over,
- scourge,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- sporadic,
- spread,
- spreading,
- standard,
- stereotyped,
- superabundant,
- taking,
- teeming,
- tuberculosis,
- universal,
- upsurge,
- usual,
- wealthy,
- well-found,
- well-furnished,
- well-provided,
- well-stocked,
- white plague,
- wholesale,
- wide-ranging,
- widespread,
- zymotic
- pest
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- any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"
- a persistently annoying person related words >
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- ambulatory plague,
- annoyance,
- annoyer,
- bad news,
- badgerer,
- bane,
- bedevilment,
- besetment,
- black death,
- black plague,
- blast,
- blight,
- bore,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bothersomeness,
- bubonic plague,
- bugbear,
- bully,
- burden,
- buttonholer,
- calamity,
- cancer,
- canker,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- crashing bore,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- death,
- defervescing plague,
- destruction,
- devilment,
- difficulty,
- disease,
- dogging,
- downer,
- drag,
- drip,
- dry rot,
- dryasdust,
- dusty,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- evil,
- exasperation,
- flat tire,
- frightful bore,
- fungus,
- gadfly,
- glandular plague,
- grievance,
- harasser,
- harassment,
- harm,
- harrier,
- harrying,
- headache,
- heckler,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- hounding,
- humdrum,
- infliction,
- irritant,
- larval plague,
- mildew,
- mold,
- molestation,
- moth,
- moth and rust,
- murrain,
- must,
- nag,
- nemesis,
- nudnik,
- nudzh,
- nuisance,
- open wound,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- persecution,
- persecutor,
- pester,
- pesterer,
- pesthole,
- pestilence,
- pill,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- plaguer,
- pneumonic plague,
- premonitory plague,
- problem,
- proser,
- rot,
- running sore,
- rust,
- sadist,
- scourge,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- smut,
- tease,
- teaser,
- thorn,
- torment,
- tormentor,
- trial,
- trouble,
- tuberculosis,
- twaddler,
- vexation,
- vexatiousness,
- visitation,
- wet blanket,
- white plague,
- woe,
- worm,
- worriment,
- worry
- sty
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- a pen for swine
- an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid related words >
- Augean stables,
- Sodom,
- abscess,
- amaurosis,
- aposteme,
- bed sore,
- birthmark,
- blackhead,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blemish,
- blepharitis,
- blister,
- boil,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- cataract,
- cesspit,
- cesspool,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- check,
- chilblain,
- choroiditis,
- cicatrix,
- cold sore,
- comedo,
- conjunctivitis,
- crack,
- crater,
- craze,
- cross-eye,
- defacement,
- defect,
- defective vision,
- deformation,
- deformity,
- den,
- detached retina,
- disfiguration,
- disfigurement,
- distortion,
- dump,
- eschar,
- esotropia,
- eye defect,
- fault,
- felon,
- fester,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fistula,
- flaw,
- freckle,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- gathering,
- glaucoma,
- gumboil,
- gutta serena,
- hemangioma,
- hemorrhoids,
- hickey,
- hole,
- hovel,
- iritis,
- keloid,
- keratitis,
- kibe,
- kink,
- lentigo,
- lesion,
- milium,
- mole,
- needle scar,
- nevus,
- optic neuritis,
- pandemonium,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- pesthole,
- petechia,
- pigpen,
- pigsty,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pink eye,
- pit,
- plague spot,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- polyp,
- port-wine mark,
- port-wine stain,
- pustule,
- retinoblastoma,
- rift,
- rising,
- rookery,
- scab,
- scar,
- scratch,
- sebaceous cyst,
- slum,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- split,
- stable,
- stigma,
- strawberry mark,
- suppuration,
- swelling,
- tenement,
- the slums,
- trachoma,
- track,
- tubercle,
- tumbledown shack,
- twist,
- ulcer,
- ulceration,
- uveitis,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- wale,
- walleye,
- warp,
- warren,
- wart,
- weal,
- welt,
- wen,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitehead,
- whitlow,
- wound
- scourge
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- a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
- punish severely; excoriate related words >
- adversity,
- afflict,
- affliction,
- ambulatory plague,
- bane,
- baste,
- bastinado,
- beat,
- belabor,
- belt,
- birch,
- black death,
- black plague,
- blacksnake,
- blister,
- bubonic plague,
- buffet,
- bugbear,
- bullwhack,
- bullwhip,
- burden,
- calamity,
- cane,
- castigate,
- castigation,
- cat,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- chastening,
- chastise,
- chastisement,
- club,
- condign punishment,
- correction,
- cowhide,
- crop,
- crushing burden,
- cudgel,
- curse,
- cut,
- death,
- defervescing plague,
- depredate,
- desecrate,
- deserts,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- destruction,
- devastate,
- disciplinary measures,
- discipline,
- disease,
- drub,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- evil,
- excoriate,
- ferule,
- flagellate,
- flagellum,
- flail,
- flay,
- flog,
- frail,
- fustigate,
- give a whipping,
- give the stick,
- glandular plague,
- grievance,
- harm,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- hide,
- hit,
- horsewhip,
- infliction,
- judgment,
- judicial punishment,
- knout,
- kurbash,
- lace,
- larval plague,
- lash,
- lather,
- lay on,
- misery,
- misfortune,
- murrain,
- nemesis,
- open wound,
- pains,
- pains and punishments,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- pay,
- payment,
- penal retribution,
- penalty,
- penology,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- pestilence,
- pillage,
- pistol-whip,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonic plague,
- pommel,
- premonitory plague,
- pummel,
- punish,
- punishment,
- punition,
- quirt,
- rawhide,
- razor strap,
- retribution,
- retributive justice,
- running sore,
- sack,
- scarify,
- scathe,
- scorch,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- sjambok,
- slash,
- smite,
- spank,
- spoliate,
- strap,
- stripe,
- swinge,
- switch,
- thong,
- thorn,
- thrash,
- thump,
- torment,
- trounce,
- truncheon,
- tuberculosis,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- wallop,
- waste,
- wear out,
- well-deserved punishment,
- whale,
- what-for,
- whip,
- whiplash,
- white plague,
- whop,
- woe
- plague
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- an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal related words >
- afflict,
- affliction,
- aggravate,
- aggravation,
- ail,
- ambulatory plague,
- anguish,
- annoy,
- annoyance,
- apply pressure,
- badger,
- bait,
- bane,
- be at,
- be the matter,
- bedevil,
- beleaguer,
- beset,
- besiege,
- bevy,
- bitch,
- black death,
- black plague,
- blandish,
- blight,
- bother,
- bristle,
- brown off,
- bubonic plague,
- bug,
- bugbear,
- bullyrag,
- burden,
- burn up,
- buttonhole,
- cajole,
- calamity,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- chafe,
- charm,
- chevy,
- chivy,
- cloud,
- coax,
- complicate matters,
- concern,
- covey,
- crawl with,
- creep with,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- death,
- defervescing plague,
- destruction,
- devil,
- discommode,
- discompose,
- disease,
- distemper,
- distress,
- disturb,
- dog,
- drag,
- dun,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- evil,
- exasperate,
- exercise,
- exert pressure,
- fash,
- flight,
- flock,
- fret,
- gaggle,
- gall,
- get,
- glandular plague,
- gnaw,
- grievance,
- gripe,
- harass,
- harm,
- harry,
- hassle,
- haunt,
- headache,
- heckle,
- hector,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- hive,
- hound,
- importune,
- inconvenience,
- infest,
- infestation,
- infliction,
- invade,
- invasion,
- irk,
- irritate,
- irritation,
- larval plague,
- lousiness,
- miff,
- molest,
- murmuration,
- murrain,
- nag,
- nag at,
- needle,
- nemesis,
- nettle,
- nudzh,
- nuisance,
- open wound,
- overrun,
- overrunning,
- overspread,
- overspreading,
- overswarm,
- overswarming,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- peeve,
- perplex,
- persecute,
- perturb,
- pest,
- pester,
- pesthole,
- pestilence,
- pick on,
- pique,
- plague spot,
- pluck the beard,
- ply,
- pneumonic plague,
- pother,
- premonitory plague,
- press,
- pressure,
- provoke,
- push,
- put out,
- put to it,
- puzzle,
- ravage,
- ride,
- rile,
- roil,
- ruffle,
- running sore,
- scourge,
- septicemic plague,
- siderating plague,
- skein,
- spring,
- swarm,
- swarm with,
- swarming,
- tease,
- teeming,
- thorn,
- torment,
- torture,
- trouble,
- try the patience,
- tuberculosis,
- tweak the nose,
- urge,
- vex,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- watch,
- wheedle,
- white plague,
- woe,
- work on,
- worry
- black death
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- the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe related words >
- African lethargy,
- Asiatic cholera,
- Chagres fever,
- German measles,
- Haverhill fever,
- acute articular rheumatism,
- ague,
- alkali disease,
- ambulatory plague,
- amebiasis,
- amebic dysentery,
- anthrax,
- bacillary dysentery,
- bastard measles,
- black fever,
- black plague,
- blackwater fever,
- breakbone fever,
- brucellosis,
- bubonic plague,
- cachectic fever,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- cerebral rheumatism,
- chicken pox,
- cholera,
- cowpox,
- dandy fever,
- deer fly fever,
- defervescing plague,
- dengue,
- dengue fever,
- diphtheria,
- dumdum fever,
- dysentery,
- elephantiasis,
- encephalitis lethargica,
- enteric fever,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- erysipelas,
- famine fever,
- five-day fever,
- flu,
- frambesia,
- glandular fever,
- glandular plague,
- grippe,
- hansenosis,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- hepatitis,
- herpes,
- herpes simplex,
- herpes zoster,
- histoplasmosis,
- hookworm,
- hydrophobia,
- infantile paralysis,
- infectious mononucleosis,
- inflammatory rheumatism,
- influenza,
- jail fever,
- jungle rot,
- kala azar,
- kissing disease,
- larval plague,
- lepra,
- leprosy,
- leptospirosis,
- loa loa,
- loaiasis,
- lockjaw,
- madness,
- malaria,
- malarial fever,
- marsh fever,
- measles,
- meningitis,
- milzbrand,
- mumps,
- murrain,
- ornithosis,
- osteomyelitis,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- paratyphoid fever,
- parotitis,
- parrot fever,
- pertussis,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- pestilence,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonia,
- pneumonic plague,
- polio,
- poliomyelitis,
- polyarthritis rheumatism,
- ponos,
- premonitory plague,
- psittacosis,
- rabbit fever,
- rabies,
- rat-bite fever,
- relapsing fever,
- rheumatic fever,
- rickettsialpox,
- ringworm,
- rubella,
- rubeola,
- scarlatina,
- scarlet fever,
- schistosomiasis,
- scourge,
- septic sore throat,
- septicemic plague,
- shingles,
- siderating plague,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleepy sickness,
- smallpox,
- snail fever,
- splenic fever,
- spotted fever,
- strep throat,
- swamp fever,
- tetanus,
- thrush,
- tinea,
- trench fever,
- trench mouth,
- tuberculosis,
- tularemia,
- typhoid,
- typhoid fever,
- typhus,
- typhus fever,
- undulant fever,
- vaccinia,
- varicella,
- variola,
- venereal disease,
- viral dysentery,
- white plague,
- whooping cough,
- yaws,
- yellow fever,
- yellow jack,
- zona,
- zoster
- tuberculosis
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- infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) related words >
- African lethargy,
- Asiatic cholera,
- Chagres fever,
- German measles,
- Haverhill fever,
- TB,
- acute articular rheumatism,
- aerogenic tuberculosis,
- ague,
- alkali disease,
- ambulatory plague,
- amebiasis,
- amebic dysentery,
- anthrax,
- bacillary dysentery,
- bastard measles,
- black death,
- black fever,
- black plague,
- blackwater fever,
- breakbone fever,
- brucellosis,
- bubonic plague,
- cachectic fever,
- cellulocutaneous plague,
- cerebral rheumatism,
- cerebral tuberculosis,
- chicken pox,
- cholera,
- colliquation,
- consumption,
- cowpox,
- dandy fever,
- deer fly fever,
- defervescing plague,
- dengue,
- dengue fever,
- diphtheria,
- disseminated tuberculosis,
- dumdum fever,
- dysentery,
- elephantiasis,
- encephalitis lethargica,
- enteric fever,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- erysipelas,
- famine fever,
- five-day fever,
- flu,
- frambesia,
- glandular fever,
- glandular plague,
- grippe,
- hansenosis,
- hemorrhagic plague,
- hepatitis,
- herpes,
- herpes simplex,
- herpes zoster,
- histoplasmosis,
- hookworm,
- hydrophobia,
- infantile paralysis,
- infectious mononucleosis,
- inflammatory rheumatism,
- influenza,
- jail fever,
- jungle rot,
- kala azar,
- kissing disease,
- larval plague,
- lepra,
- leprosy,
- leptospirosis,
- loa loa,
- loaiasis,
- lockjaw,
- lupus vulgaris,
- madness,
- malaria,
- malarial fever,
- marsh fever,
- measles,
- meningitis,
- milzbrand,
- mumps,
- murrain,
- ornithosis,
- osteomyelitis,
- pandemia,
- pandemic,
- paratyphoid fever,
- parotitis,
- parrot fever,
- pertussis,
- pest,
- pesthole,
- pestilence,
- phthisis,
- plague,
- plague spot,
- pneumonia,
- pneumonic plague,
- polio,
- poliomyelitis,
- polyarthritis rheumatism,
- ponos,
- premonitory plague,
- psittacosis,
- pulmonary tuberculosis,
- rabbit fever,
- rabies,
- rat-bite fever,
- relapsing fever,
- rheumatic fever,
- rickettsialpox,
- ringworm,
- rubella,
- rubeola,
- scarlatina,
- scarlet fever,
- schistosomiasis,
- scourge,
- scrofula,
- scrofuloderma,
- septic sore throat,
- septicemic plague,
- shingles,
- siderating plague,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleepy sickness,
- smallpox,
- snail fever,
- splenic fever,
- spotted fever,
- strep throat,
- swamp fever,
- tetanus,
- thrush,
- tinea,
- trench fever,
- trench mouth,
- tuberculosis cutis,
- tuberculosis luposa,
- tuberculous meningitis,
- tularemia,
- typhoid,
- typhoid fever,
- typhus,
- typhus fever,
- undulant fever,
- vaccinia,
- varicella,
- variola,
- venereal disease,
- viral dysentery,
- white plague,
- whooping cough,
- yaws,
- yellow fever,
- yellow jack,
- zona,
- zoster
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