Wiktionary
disease-ridden
a. dominated by disease.
Usage examples of "disease-ridden".
What it actually did do, I supposed, was to keep disease-ridden companions at a safe distance—equally satisfactory, from my point of view.
Here was a trading post, Freetown, and behind it an ill-defined, disease-ridden interior.
Paid for, naturally, by taxes extorted from an impoverished, disease-ridden, and half-starved peasantry.