- Common illness - Contagious ailment - Contagious disease - Epidemic disease - Far-flung source of illness - Illness brought back from gulf mostly - Illness found among affluent
- Awful silence, pet! It's a plague! - Awful silence, pet! It’s a plague! - Epidemic disease - Plague - Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence,
any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and
devastating. - Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious
to the moral character of great numbers.
- Contagious outbreak - Fast-spreading disease - Outbreak of an infectious disease - PIague - Plague - Rapid spread of an epic about a crooked dime - Widespread disease
- Annoyance - Annoying person or thing - Cane toad, cockroach, eg - Nuisance - A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. - Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is
troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.