1.   Extreme poverty breeds disease and shortens life expectancy.

2.   He worked with drainage specialists to eradicate swamps where insects bred disease.

3.   Salmon farms often draw environmental criticism because of the way the caged fish cover bay bottoms with excrement and sometimes breed disease.

4.   They say these overcrowded conditions breed diseases and threaten public health.

5.   Hayes acknowledged that using the streets as a toilet is a problem, saying it breeds disease and pollutes the ocean when raw sewage is washed down storm drains.

6.   The good news is that the expected drought means less water environments in which disease carriers could breed.

7.   Then the El Nino weather phenomenon brought heavy rains and flooding to many parts of the county that bred disease, killed livestock and rotted crops in the fields.