Plague

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Plague may refer to:

Contents 1 Medicine 2 History 3 Art and literature 4 Popular culture 5 Other

[edit] Medicine

• Plague (disease), a specific disease caused by Yersinia pestis. There are three major manifestations:
  • Bubonic plague
  • Septicemic plague
  • Pneumonic plague
• Any bubo-causing disease
• A pandemic caused by such a disease
• Any pestilence, a virulent and highly infectious disease

[edit] History

• Black Death, also known as The Black Plague: the Eurasian pandemic thought to have been caused by bubonic plague, beginning in the 14th century killing half of Europe's population, with repeated outbreaks until the 18th century
• Plague of Justinian, a pandemic in 541–542 AD in the Byzantine Empire
• Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165–189 AD brought back to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East
• Third Pandemic, a major plague pandemic that began in China in 1855, spread via trade routes around the world. This episode was considered active until 1959, when worldwide casualties dropped to 200 per year.
• List of historical plagues

[edit] Art and literature

• Plagues of Egypt, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus
• A Journal of the Plague Year, a novel by Daniel Defoe
• Plague (Böcklin), a painting by Arnold Böcklin
• The Scarlet Plague, 1912 novel by Jack London
• The Plague, a novel by Albert Camus
• The Plague (magazine), New York University's comedy magazine
• The Plague (Dragon Prince), an epidemic in Melanie Rawn's fantasy novel Dragon Prince
• Plague 99, 1989 novel by Jean Ure
• Plague (2000 novel), a novel by Malcolm Rose
• Company of liars - a novel of the plague, 2008 novel by Karen Maitland
• The Stand, a novel by Stephen King
• Plague Year (2007) and its sequel Plague War (2008), novels by Jeff Carlson

[edit] Popular culture

• The Plague (American band), a hardcore punk band from Cleveland
• The Plague (film), a 2006 horror film
• The Plague (Father Ted), an episode of Father Ted
• The Plague (band), a New Zealand band
• The Plague (English punk rock band), an English band
• Plagues (album) by The Devil Wears Prada
• The Plague (comics), a Cobra special forces team made up of a specialist from each viper division in the G.I. Joe: America's Elite comic.
• Pray For Plague : By Bring Me The Horizon

[edit] Other

• Widespread influx of an animal species afflicting the environment and/or agriculture
• Capacitor plague, a condition afflicting computer motherboards in which capacitors fail
• Corrupted Blood incident, a virtual plague that occurred in the video game World of Warcraft

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