Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. Usually this begins one to seven...

the disease progresses, the lymph nodes can hemorrhage and become swollen and necrotic. Bubonic plague can progress to lethal septicemic plague in some...

individual outbreaks, such as the Plague of Justinian (first pandemic) and the Black Death (second pandemic). Infectious diseases with high prevalence are listed...

Outbreaks of the plague recurred around the world until the early 19th century. European writers contemporary with the plague described the disease in Latin as...

from an international meeting on plague cited a Chinese government disease expert as saying that most cases of the plague in China's northwest occur when...

The plague is named for the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565), who according to his court historian Procopius contracted the disease and recovered...

plague is a systemic disease involving infection of the blood and is most commonly spread by bites from infected fleas. Septicemic plague can cause disseminated...

up plague or plagues in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plague or The Plague may refer to: Plague (disease), (commonly referred to as bubonic plague or...

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...

of the plague was in Smyrna (in Roman Anatolia) in 165 where the orator Aelius Aristides almost died from the disease. From the east the plague spread...

plague epidemics that originated in Central Asia in 1331 (the first year of the Black Death), and included related diseases such as pneumonic plague and...

pneumonic plague, so live, attenuated vaccines and recombinant protein vaccines have been developed to prevent the disease. The first plague vaccine was...

The clothing worn by plague doctors was intended to protect them from airborne diseases during outbreaks of bubonic plague in Europe. It is often seen...

struck by disease several times before Camus published his novel. According to an academic study, Oran was decimated by the bubonic plague in 1556 and...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to plague doctors.. A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of bubonic plague during epidemics mainly in the 16th...

of 1994" to the government of India. The report concluded that the disease was plague, but did not identify the origin. Other sources identify the ultimate...

Mediterranean also saw an outbreak of the disease, albeit with less impact. The war, along with the plague, had lasting effects on Athenian society. Short-term...

The first plague pandemic was the first historically recorded Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis...

The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed...

The Manchurian plague was a pneumonic plague that occurred mainly in Manchuria in 1910–1911. It killed 60,000 people, stimulating a multinational medical...

and the Plague Prayers of Mursili II describe an outbreak of a disease among the Hittites. The First Book of Samuel describes a possible plague outbreak...

of cases transmitted person-to-person as pneumonic plague, the most dangerous form of the disease. The death toll of 124 by 20 October exceeded that of...

At the end of the plague of 1580, the people at Marseille took some measures to attempt to control the future spread of disease. The city council of...

themed Shadow Plague, and the customizable Disease X from the 1.18.6 "The Cure" In addition to these disease types, there are scenarios. Plague Inc gives...

Sylvatic plague is an infectious bacterial disease caused by the plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis) that primarily affects rodents, such as prairie dogs...

It causes the disease plague, which caused the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. Plague takes three main...

Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration. In most cases, symptoms include fever, chills, loss of appetite, nausea, muscle pains—particularly...

there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as smallpox. The Black Death, caused by the Plague, caused the deaths of up to half of the population...

Rinderpest (also cattle plague or steppe murrain) was an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and many other species of even-toed ungulates...

BioWare, released an online disease resembling the Corrupted Blood plague. Characters infected with the Rakghoul Plague would develop a signature cough...