Plague 71054 226178427 2008-07-17T04:50:41Z The Wednesday Island 1481035 considered by whom? {{Wiktionarypar|plague}} '''Plague''' may refer to: In '''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 In '''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 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]] In '''art''' and '''literature''': * [[Plagues of Egypt]], the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus * ''[[The Plague]]'', a novel by Albert Camus * [[The Plague (magazine)|''The Plague'' (magazine)]], New York University's comedy magazine * ''[[A Journal of the Plague Year]]'', a novel by Daniel Defoe * ''[[The Plague (Dragon Prince)]]'', an epidemic in Melanie Rawn's fantasy novel Dragon Prince * ''[[Plague (2000 novel)]]'', a novel by [[Malcolm Rose]] * ''[[Plague 99]]'', 1989 novel by Jean Ure * ''[[The Scarlet Plague]]'', 1912 novel by Jack London In '''popular culture''': * [[The Plague (film)|''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)|Plagues (album)]] by The Devil Wears Prada * [[Plague (wrestler)]], the stage name of a U.S. professional wrestler * [[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. '''Other''': * [[Overpopulation (animals)#Wild animal overpopulation|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]], a virtual plague that occurred in the video game World of Warcraft {{disambig}} [[cy:Pla]] [[de:Plage]] [[fr:Plague]]