fever-ridden

adjective3

1. •
   Experiencing an epidemic of one of the diseases known as fever (such as yellow fever).

   • Rain and illness turn the camp into a fever-ridden mudbath. — 2007
2. •
   Suffering from fever.

   • Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished. — 1936
3. •
   Harbouring the virus that causes one of the diseases known as fever.

   • Twenty long years in that fever-ridden swamp, all day at work under the mangrove-tree, all night chained up in the filthy convict-huts, bitten by mosquitoes, racked with ague, […] — 1890