Plague

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Plague or The Plague may refer to:

(Not to be confused with plaque)

Contents 1 Medicine 2 Art and literature 3 Popular culture 4 See also

[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] Art and literature

• Plague (Böcklin), a painting by Arnold Böcklin
• Plague (2000 novel), a novel by Malcolm Rose
• Plague 99, a 1989 novel by Jean Ure
• The Plague, a 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

[edit] Popular culture

• Plague, a 1987 LP by the band Klinik
• Plague (1978 film), a science-fiction genre film depicting a genetic engineering accident
• Plague (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Plagues (album) the second album by The Devil Wears Prada
• The Plague (American band), a hardcore punk band from Cleveland
• The Plague (New Zealand band)
• The Plague (comics), a Cobra special forces team in the comic G.I. Joe: America's Elite
• The Plague (English band), an English punk rock band
• The Plague (film), a 2006 horror film
• "The Plague" (Father Ted), an episode of Father Ted
• The Plague (Brotha Lynch Hung album)
• The Plague EP, an EP by I Hate Sally
• The Plague (EP), an EP by Nuclear Assault
• The Plague (song), a song by Diary of Dreams

[edit] See also

• List of historical plagues
• Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165–189 AD brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East
• Black Death, also known as The Black Plague: the Eurasian pandemic beginning in the 14th century
• 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
• Great Plague of London, a massive outbreak in England that killed an estimated 20% of London's population in 1665-1666
• Plague of Athens, a devastating epidemic which hit Athens in ancient Greece in 430 BC
• Plague of Justinian, a pandemic in 541–542 AD in the Byzantine Empire
• Plague Riot, a riot in Moscow in 1771 caused by an outbreak of bubonic plague
• Plagues of Egypt, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus
• Third Pandemic, a major plague pandemic that began in China in 1855
• Widespread influx of an animal species afflicting the environment and/or agriculture
• Plague is a term for a large group of grackles

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