Plague or The Plague may refer to:

Agriculture, fauna, and medicine

Plague (disease) Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium ''Yersinia pestis''. Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. Usually this begins one to seven days after exposure. There are three forms of plague, each affecting a different part ...

, a disease caused by ''Yersinia pestis'' * An

epidemic An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί ''epi'' "upon or above" and δῆμος ''demos'' "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of patients among a given population within an area in a short period of time. Epidemics of infectious d ...

of infectious disease (medical or agricultural) * A

pandemic A pandemic () is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals. A widespread endemic disease with a stable number of i ...

caused by such a disease * A swarm of pest insects such as locusts ** A massive attack of other

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afflicting agriculture ** Overpopulation in wild animals afflicting the environment and/or agriculture * Plague, collective noun for

common grackle The common grackle (''Quiscalus quiscula'') is a species of large icterid bird found in large numbers through much of North America. First described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, the common grackle has three subspecies. Adult common grackles have a ...

Historical plagues

List of epidemics This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large n ...

* Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165–189 CE brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East *

Black Death The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, cau ...

, the Eurasian pandemic beginning in the 14th century *

Great Northern War plague outbreak During the Great Northern War (1700–1721), many towns and areas around the Baltic Sea and East-Central Europe had a severe outbreak of the plague with a peak from 1708 to 1712. This epidemic was probably part of a pandemic affecting an area fro ...

, a European outbreak in the early 18th century *

Great Plague of London The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long Second Pandemic, a period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics that orig ...

, 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 BCE *

Plague of Justinian The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (541–549 AD) was the first recorded major outbreak of the first plague pandemic, the first Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium ''Yersinia pestis''. The dis ...

, a pandemic in 541–542 CE in the Byzantine Empire * Plague Riot, a riot in Moscow in 1771 caused by an outbreak of bubonic plague

Modern plagues

Third plague pandemic The third plague pandemic was a major bubonic plague pandemic that began in Yunnan, China, in 1855. This episode of bubonic plague spread to all inhabited continents, and ultimately led to more than 12 million deaths in India and China (and perha ...

or Third Plague, a major plague pandemic that began in China in 1855 until 1960 **

Manchurian plague The Manchurian plague was a pneumonic plague that occurred mainly in Manchuria in 1910–1911. It killed 60,000 people, stimulating a multinational medical response and the wearing of the first personal protective equipment (PPE). __TOC__ Histo ...

(1910–11): Part of the third plague pandemic *

HIV/AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual ...

, originally referred to as the "gay plague" when it was discovered in the 1980s (see

History of HIV/AIDS AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa. While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times, the present pandemic had its origins ...

)

Art, media, and entertainment

Art

* ''Plague'' (painting), by Arnold Böcklin

Fictional entities

*Plague, Lisbeth Salander's hacker friend and colleague in the Hacker Republic, e.g., see ''The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest#Trial'' * 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 and television

* ''Plague'' (1979 film), a science-fiction film * ''The Plague'' (1992 film), a drama film * ''The Plague'' (2006 film), a horror film * ''Plague'' (2014 film), an Australian horror film * ''La peste'' (TV series), Spanish historical drama series broadcast in the UK as ''The Plague''

Games

* Corrupted Blood incident, a virtual plague that occurred in the video game ''World of Warcraft'' * '' Plague Inc.'', a strategy game for smartphones and tablets by Ndemic Creations * '' Plague!'', a card game about the Black Plague in England *Plague of Shadows (Plague Knight), a character and DLC gamemode for

Shovel Knight ''Shovel Knight'' is a platform game, platform video game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. Development was crowdfunded and the game was released for Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Windows in June 2014. It was ported to OS X and Linux in Se ...

*The Plague, a playable killer character of Babylonian origin from the asymmetrical-survival horror

Dead by Daylight ''Dead by Daylight'' is an asymmetric multiplayer survival horror online game developed by Canadian studio Behaviour Interactive. It is a one-versus-four game in which one player takes on the role of a savage Killer and the other four play as Su ...

Literature

* ''Plague'', a 2000 young adult novel by Malcolm Rose * ''Plague'', a 1977 thriller novel by Graham Masterton * '' Plague 99'', a novel by Jean Ure * ''The Plague'' (novel), a novel by Albert Camus * "The Plague" (''Dragon Prince''), an epidemic which affects both humans and dragons in Melanie Rawn's novel * ''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), a punk rock band * The Plague (New Zealand band), a theatrical punk/art rock band

Albums

* ''Plague'' (Klinik album) * ''Plagues'' (album), by The Devil Wears Prada * ''The Plague'', by

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* ''The Plague'' (Brotha Lynch Hung album)

EPs

* ''The Plague'' (Nuclear Assault EP) * ''The Plague'' (I Hate Sally EP)

Songs

* "

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", by Crystal Castles from the 2012 album III * "The Plague", by Demon from the 1983 album by the same name * "The Plague," an unreleased song by

The Mountain Goats The Mountain Goats are an American band formed in Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. The band is currently based in Durham, North Carolina. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle, despite th ...

that appears on the 2020 live album ''The Jordan Lake Sessions''

Musicals

* '' Plague! The Musical'', by David Massingham and Matthew Townend

Television

* "Plague" (2003 ''Dead Zone'' episode) * "Plague" (2004 ''Deadwood'' episode) * "The Plague" (1994 ''Diagnosis: Murder'' episode) * "The Plague", second episode of the 1966 ''Doctor Who'' serial '' The Ark'' * "The Plague" (1996 ''Father Ted'' episode) * ''The Plague'', English title of 2018 Spanish TV series ''La peste''

Religion

Plagues of Egypt The Plagues of Egypt, in the account of the book of Exodus, are ten disasters inflicted on Biblical Egypt by the God of Israel in order to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting Pharaoh and one of h ...

, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus *The seven plagues poured out from

seven bowls The seven bowls (, ''phialas'', sing. φιάλη ''phialē''; also translated as cups or vials) are a set of plagues mentioned in Revelation 16. They are recorded as apocalyptic events that were seen in the vision of the Revelation of Jesus C ...

in Revelation 15:5-16:21

Technology

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