Pestilence

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A pestilence is any virulent and highly infectious disease that can cause an epidemic or even a pandemic. The word can also be used about parasites causing large scale sickness and death, such as Guinea worm.

Originally the word referred to the bubonic plague, which is called pestis in Latin.

It can also refer to:

In music

• Pestilence (band), a Dutch death metal band
• "Ride the Wings of Pestilence", a song by From First to Last
• "Pestilence", a song by The Faceless

In comics

• Pestilence (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain character in Alpha Flight
• Pestilence (DC Comics), a DC Comics character from 52

In other

• World of Warcraft,The class death knight gets a skill called Pestilence that spreads diseases among units around the unit it was used on.