Plague

Not to be confused with Plaque.

Plague or The Plague may refer to:

Medicine

• Plague (disease), a specific disease caused by Yersinia pestis. There are three major manifestations:
  • Bubonic plague
  • Septicemic plague
  • Pneumonic plague
• An epidemic of infectious disease
• A pandemic caused by such a disease

Art and literature

• Plague (Böcklin), a painting by Arnold Böcklin
• 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

Film and television

• Plague (1978 film), a science-fiction genre film depicting a genetic engineering accident
• The Plague (film), a 2006 horror film
• "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
• "Plague" (Dead Zone), a 2003 episode of Dead Zone
• "Plague" (Deadwood episode), a 2004 episode of Deadwood

Music

• The Plague (American band), a hardcore punk band from Cleveland
• The Plague (English band), an English punk rock band
• The Plague (New Zealand band)
• Plague! The Musical, a 2008 musical by David Massingham and Matthew Townend
• Plagues (album), a 2007 album by The Devil Wears Prada
• The Plague, a 1983 album by Demon
• The Plague (Brotha Lynch Hung album), 2002
• The Plague (EP), a 1987 EP by Nuclear Assault
• The Plague EP, a 2005 EP by I Hate Sally
• Plague (Klinik album), a 1987 album by Klinik

Other

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

See also

• List of epidemics
• 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
• Overpopulation (animals)#Wild animal overpopulation afflicting the environment and/or agriculture
• A massive attack of Pest over agriculture
• Plague is a term for a large group of common Grackles
• Plaque (disambiguation)