It's also very important to remove faded flowers, because those blousy old blooms can breed disease.
He worked with drainage specialists to eradicate swamps where insects bred disease.
The death of Pompey Strabo had brought home a lesson; that so many men temporarily crowded around such a large city bred frightful disease.
They breed disease and parasites.
Cities breed disease to remove the old and the infirm, and cities decrease the farmer's sense of place and family.
It gave him the willies not because he cared about bodies themselves, but because he knew they bred disease.
Open space would bring in light and fresh air, eliminating the congestion that bred disease.
The precision with which the Spacers had bred disease out of their societies was well known.
Salmon farms often draw environmental criticism because of the way the caged fish cover bay bottoms with excrement and sometimes breed disease.
The slums were believed to breed disease, crime, intemperance and immorality, external costs borne by wider society rather than the landlords and tenants of these properties.