Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King

What "blights" has the kingdom been suffering?

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A plague besets the city of Thebes, and Oedipus enters to find a priest and crowd of children praying to the gods to free them from the curse. A blight, the priest tells Oedipus, has destroyed their crops and livestock - and even rendered their women sterile, unable to have children.

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