Game Mechanics: Plague huts in EC outside Nektulos should give some plague/disease on proximity

[Ropethunder]

I remember on live that if you ran through the middle of where these huts were you would get some kind of plague/disease debuff. There is a big flag next to it identifying a plague.

Does anyone else remember this?

[Kuron]

I remember this, but it's not classic. I'm pretty sure it came way later, sometime after Velious.

[Omnimorph]

I spent my life in EC and this is the first i've heard of it...