ThePlagueYear: America in the Time of COVID is a nonfiction book by American journalist Lawrence Wright. The book is written by Pulitzer Prize-–winning...
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...
Theplague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (AD 541–549) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, severely...
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as...
Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. One to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu-like symptoms...
events: in 1665, seventy thousand were killed by the Great Plague of London, and the next year, the Great Fire of London left only Defoe's and two other...
media related to plague doctors.. A plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of bubonic plague during epidemics mainly in the 16th and 17th centuries...
of plague, the other two being septicemic plague and bubonic plague. The pneumonic form may occur following an initial bubonic or septicemic plague infection...
The first plague pandemic was the first historically recorded Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis...
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...
Septicemic plague is one of the three forms of plague, and is caused by Yersinia pestis, a gram-negative species of bacterium. Septicemic plague is a systemic...
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...
Orientalized in such books as Defoe's A Journal of the PlagueYear, Manzoni's The Betrothed, and Camus's ThePlague. In a 2020 article, he wrote that Western observers...
ancient Greece during the second year (430 BC) of the Peloponnesian War when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach. Theplague killed an estimated...
considered an epidemic. Due to the long time spans, the first plague pandemic (6th century – 8th century) and the second plague pandemic (14th century – early...
The term plague cross can refer to either a mark placed on a building occupied by victims of plague; or a permanent structure erected, to enable plague...
600 cases of plague are reported a year. In 2017 and November 2019 the countries with the most cases include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar...
version of the abracadabra spell for an amulet to prevent fever Daniel Defoe. A Journal of thePlagueYear. London, Dent, 1911 (1722) "The ancient—and...
Eyam being promoted as "theplague village". Although the story has been kept alive by a growing number of literary works since the early 19th century, its...
humans via the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis). It causes the disease plague, which caused thePlague of Justinian and the Black Death, the deadliest...
The capacitor plague was a problem related to a higher-than-expected failure rate of non-solid aluminium electrolytic capacitors between 1999 and 2007...