Plague
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"Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic organism, or like the cells of a tumour or neoplasm. We have grown in numbers and disturbance to Gaia, to the point where our presence is perceptibly disturbing ... the human species is now so numerous as to constitute a serious planetary malady. Gaia is suffering from Disseminated Primatemaia, a plague of people." --Healing Gaia (1991) by James Lovelock, p. 153 |
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Plague or The Plague may refer to:
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Agriculture, fauna, and medicine
- Plague (disease), a disease caused by Yersinia pestis
- An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural)
- A pandemic caused by such a disease
- A swarm of pest insects such as locusts
- A massive attack of other pests afflicting agriculture
- Overpopulation in wild animals afflicting the environment and/or agriculture
- Plague, collective noun for common grackles
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Historical plagues
- List of epidemics
- 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 Eurasian pandemic beginning in the 14th century
- Great Northern War plague outbreak, a European outbreak in the early 18th century
- 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 BCE
- Plague of Justinian, 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
- Third plague pandemic or Third Plague, a major plague pandemic that began in China in 1855
- The COVID-19 pandemic, often informally referred to as a plague.
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Art, media, and entertainment
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Art
- Plague (painting), by Arnold Böcklin
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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
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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
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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
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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, 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
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Music
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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
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Albums
- Plague (Klinik album)
- Plagues (album), by The Devil Wears Prada
- The Plague, by Demon
- The Plague (Brotha Lynch Hung album)
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EPs
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Songs
- "Plague", 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 that appears on the 2020 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions
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Musicals
- Plague! The Musical, by David Massingham and Matthew Townend
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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
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Religion
- Plagues of Egypt, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus
- The seven plagues poured out from seven bowls in Revelation 15:5-16:21
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Technology
- Capacitor plague, a condition afflicting computer motherboards in which capacitors fail
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