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Coral bleaching and disease outbreaks are often inter-related phenomena, since many coral diseases are a consequence of opportunistic pathogens that further compromise thermally stressed colonies. Yet, most coral diseases have low prevalence (&lt;5%), and are not considered contagious. By contrast, we document the impact of an extremely high-prevalence outbreak (61%) of white-plague disease at 14 sites off southeastern Florida. White-plague disease was observed near Virginia Key, Florida, in September 2014, and after 12 months had spread 100\u2009km north and 30\u2009km south. The disease outbreak directly followed a high temperature coral-bleaching event and affected at least 13 coral species.\n                    <jats:italic>Eusmilia fastigiata, Meandrina meandrites,<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Dichocoenia stokesi<\/jats:italic>\n                    were the most heavily impacted coral species, and were reduced to &lt;3% of their initial population densities. A number of other coral species, including\n                    <jats:italic>Colpophyllia natans, Pseudodiploria strigosa, Diploria labyrinthiformis,<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Orbicella annularis<\/jats:italic>\n                    were reduced to &lt;25% of their initial densities. 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