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Captain treated initially for disease (6)

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I believe the answer is:

blight

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'for disease' is the definition.
(blight is a kind of disease)

'captain treated initially' is the wordplay.
'captain' becomes 'bligh' (I've seen this before).
'treated initially' becomes 't' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'bligh'+'t'='BLIGHT'

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(Other definitions for blight that I've seen before include "Fungal plant disease" , "Disease or fungus that withers plants, say potatoes" , "Disease of plants etc" , "Affliction" , "Spoil - plant disease" .)

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