Plague

Not to be confused with Plaque.

Plague or The plague is a disease that has a high mortality rate or a calamity with widespread and serious consequences for its victims. The terms plague or the plague may specifically refer to:

Agriculture and medicine

• Plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis. There are three major manifestations:
  • Bubonic plague
  • Pneumonic plague
  • Septicemic plague
• An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural)
• A pandemic caused by such a disease
• A swarm of pest insects such as locusts
  • A massive attack of other pest (organism)s afflicting agriculture
  • Overpopulation in wild animals afflicting the environment and/or agriculture

Religion

• Plagues of Egypt, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus

Birds

• Plague, collective noun for Common Grackles

Historical plagues

• List of epidemics
• Plague of Athens, a devastating epidemic which hit Athens in ancient Greece in 430 BC
• Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165–189 AD brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East
• Plague of Justinian, a pandemic in 541–542 AD in the Byzantine Empire
• The Black Death, the Eurasian pandemic beginning in the 14th century
• Great Plague of London, a massive outbreak in England that killed an estimated 20% of London's population in 1665–1666
• Plague Riot, a riot in Moscow in 1771 caused by an outbreak of bubonic plague
• Third Pandemic, a major plague pandemic that began in China in 1855

Media and entertainment

Art

• Plague (painting), a painting by Arnold Böcklin

Fictional characters

• Plague (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• The Plague (G.I. Joe), a Cobra special forces team in the comic book G.I. Joe: America's Elite
• The Plague, a duo of demonic assassins in the movie Hobo with a Shotgun

Films

• Plague (1978 film), a science-fiction genre film depicting a genetic engineering accident
• The Plague (film), a 2006 horror film

Games

• Corrupted Blood incident, a virtual plague that occurred in the video game World of Warcraft
• Plague Inc., a 2012 strategy game for smartphones and tablets by Ndemic Creations

Literature

• Plague, a 2000 novel by Malcolm Rose
• Plague 99, a 1989 novel by Jean Ure
• The Plague, a 1947 novel by Albert Camus
• The Plague (Dragon Prince), an epidemic in Melanie Rawn's fantasy novel Dragon Prince
• The Plague (magazine), New York University's comedy magazine

Music

Artists

• The Plague (American band), a hardcore punk band from Cleveland
• The Plague (English band), an English punk rock band
• The Plague (New Zealand band)

Albums

• Plagues (album), a 2007 album by The Devil Wears Prada
• The Plague, a 1983 album by Demon
• The Plague (Brotha Lynch Hung album), 2002

EPs

• Plague (Klinik album), a 1987 album by Klinik
• The Plague (EP), a 1987 EP by Nuclear Assault
• The Plague EP, a 2005 EP by I Hate Sally

Musicals

• Plague! The Musical, a 2008 musical by David Massingham and Matthew Townend

Television

• "Plague" (Dead Zone), a 2003 episode of Dead Zone
• "Plague" (Deadwood episode), a 2004 episode of Deadwood
• "The Plague" (Diagnosis Murder Episode), a 1994 episode of Diagnosis Murder
• "The Plague", second episode of the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Ark
• "The Plague" (Father Ted), a 1996 episode of Father Ted

Technology

• Capacitor plague, a condition afflicting computer motherboards in which capacitors fail