Disease was just an unfortunate fact of life in the ancient world, and Egypt had some malae ariae on the Nile Delta. So when records reported diseases under Akhenaten, historians naturally connected these with the turbulent in-and-out of the new capital at Tel Amarna.
New reports would disconnect these plagues. They might have been ill down north, but not in the dry land - not much, anyway; tuberculosis did affect some, and others suffered from the effects of hard manual work. In fact that was likely good motive for the 18th Dynasty to stick with the lands of Amen away from the delta of Ra: it was just healthier up there.
Plagues would be a better suspect for the failings of Dynasty XIX which followed the Amarna Age.
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