9 thoughts to “ The Plague ”

1. Jul 23,  · Plague is a disease that affects humans and other mammals. It is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an animal infected with plague. Plague is infamous for killing millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages.

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2. Aug 26,  · Storyline. In the s, a South American city is rocked by the imminent outbreak of a plague. While many attempt to flee the city, Dr. Bernard Rieux sends his sick wife away and does his best to care for the plague's victims. The plague means different things to different people: to the doctor, it's a disease to be cured/10().

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3. Aug 06,  · Plague, infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas. Plague was the cause of some of the most-devastating epidemics in history. It was the disease behind the Black Death of the 14th century, when as much as one-third of Europe’s population died.

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4. Sep 17,  · The plague is a life-threatening condition that requires urgent care. If caught and treated early, it’s a treatable disease using antibiotics that are commonly available. With no treatment.

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5. Aug 20,  · Plague is a known worldwide killer of men, women, and children. It takes three forms: pneumonic, bubonic, and septicemic. Plague causes a painful, relatively quick death that often involves.

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6. Apr 16,  · Called the Great Mortality as it caused its devastation, this second great pandemic of Bubonic Plague became known as the Black Death in the .

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7. Modernity nor morality do not spare 21st century Americans from this plague. No amount of vaccines, functional democracies, nor technology spare us the horrors of plague: shelter in place orders, economic depression, unemployment, isolation, separation from loved ones, nor /5(K).

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8. The Plague. A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral 4/5(K).

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9. Plague is an ancient disease that was described during Classical times as occurring in North Africa and the Middle East. It is sometimes presumed to be the disease behind several historic epidemics, such as the pestilence described as striking the Philistines in the biblical book of 1 Samuel. Unequivocal evidence for its early existence comes from the discovery of genomic traces of Y. pestis in the teeth of Neolithic .

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