Plague

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Plague or The Plague may refer to:

Agriculture, fauna, and medicine

Plague (disease), (commonly referred to as bubonic plague or black death), caused by infectious bacteria 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

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, also known as "The Plague"
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 until 1960
- Manchurian plague (1910–11): Part of the third plague pandemic
HIV/AIDS, originally referred to as the "gay plague" when it was discovered in the 1980s (see History of HIV/AIDS)
Vole plague in Castile and León (Spain), in 2007.

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

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

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

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

"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

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