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What's odd about wet weather bringing disease? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

murrain

'disease?' is the definition.
(murrain is a kind of health problem)

'what's odd about wet weather' is the wordplay.
'what's odd' becomes 'rum' (rum can mean strange or dubious).
'about' is a reversal indicator.
'wet weather' becomes 'rain' (rain is wet weather).
'rum' written backwards gives 'mur'.
'mur'+'rain'='MURRAIN'

'bringing' is the link.

(Other definitions for murrain that I've seen before include "Cattle-plague" , "Cattle disease" , "Cattle plague" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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