plague-ridden

adjective3

1. •
   Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a place or community)

   • In the plague-ridden England of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, according to the historian Keith Thomas, it was widely believed that “the happy man would not get plague.” — 1978
2. •
   Infected with or suffering from bubonic plague or another epidemic illness. (of a person, animal, body or object)

   • There was a saintly minorite, one Fra Cristofero, who came to tend the plague-ridden, and who himself was miraculously preserved from the contagion. — 1915
3. •
   During which there is an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. (of a time)

   • Russia will be in the midst of the steepest and most protracted population implosion of any major power since the plague-ridden Middle Ages. — 2011