Why do my commanders keep dying of disease?

[Edi]

Oh, boo-hoo!

I've never had a problem with disease, really. It's annoying as hell, but not fatal (other than to units that get it). Just yesterday while playing Abysia (Dom-PPP, not Dom2) I got my prophet diseased around turn 8 or 10. It annoyed the hell out of me, of course, but them's the breaks. Of course, the province he had been in immediately got Dark Knowledged and sure enough, Chillsick Swamp popped up. Inkpot End and Leper Fens are the other two disease sites.

Disease from causes other than starvation is pretty rare, and I don't think it should be nerfed down. If my favorite commander gets it, then I'll be **** out of luck unless I can develop the cures, but them's the breaks. If it's something that happens immediately in the early game to some special hero (such as happened to me in a R'lyeh game where I got Shadul Ummuush from the start), I'm just as liable to start a new game immediately.

Leper Fens and Chillsick Swamp are Death sites, and can actually be pretty nice to have in some inconsequential and otherwise useless backwater provinces, as they have pretty good gem income (2w + 1d & 1d + 1n + 1w, respectively). Inkpot End is just a pain in the *** no matter where it is.

Edi