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'''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
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