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Answer for the clue "A breeding ground for epidemic disease ", 8 letters:
pesthole

Word definitions for pesthole in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a breeding ground for epidemic disease

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A place where a pest (contagious disease) is present or likely

Usage examples of pesthole.

Week later chilling stickies in the Shens and then a firefight with the baron of some pesthole ville in the Darks.

Jordon Teague had been the baron of Mocsin, one of the worst pestholes on the entire gaudy-ridden frontier.

Ryan Cawdor had to have passed through hundreds of these stinking little frontier pestholes, with their filthy hovels and their poxed gaudies and brutally dangerous drinking bars.

The Japanese beetle, the citrous scale, the chestnut blight, and the elm borer spread to every corner of the world, and from one forgotten pesthole in Borneo, leprosy, long imagined extinct, reappeared.

The block vote of pestholes like Old Earth will devour the capital approach.

I've lived all my life in Freeport, and that's nothing to judge by, but if there's a more miserable pesthole on the planet than this place, including Durbin, I've never heard of it.

The ones Granth and Vulth brought were tipped upright and placed in waiting pestholes with the rest.

Any camp here, no matter how good the location chosen, no matter how good the weather, has inevitably become nothing less than a pesthole within less than two weeks' time, breeding farms of dysentery, cholera, typhus, typhoid, tetanus, lung infections, poxes, internal parasites, noxious insects, and God alone knows what else.