Plague is a serious, infectious disease usually transmitted by the bites of rodent fleas. It was the scourge of our early history. There are three major forms of the disease: bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic. Plague has been responsible for three...

The bubonic plague is a highly infectious and fearsome disease that attacks the lungs and lymph nodes. It is also called the Black Death or black plague. The bubonic plague is caused by Pasteurella pestis, a bacteria which resides within infected fleas...

Bubonic plague is a disease that is typically passed from rodents to other animals and humans via the bite of a flea. The flea acquires the bacterium that causes the disease as it lives on the skin of the rodent. Humans can also acquire the disease by...

The word "plague" means different things to different people. To a medical professional, it conjures visions of gruesome diseases. To a farmer, it may represent disastrous crop blights that lead to financial ruin and, perhaps, starvation. To a govern-...

The bubonic plague or bubonic fever is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis (Pasteurella pestis). The epidemiological use of the term plague is currently applied to bacterial infections...

Bubonic plague fails to conquer community By DANIELLE NIEVES Colorado Springs Gazette Sunday, July 1, 2001 The sense of panic among residents of the Colorado Centre neighborhood in southeast Colorado Springs, Colo., has given way to a grim determination to...

ATTACK AFTERMATH GERM WARFARE Bubonic plague genome mapped Blueprint could lead to vaccines to prevent its use as a weapon By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA Associated Press Sunday, October 7, 2001 British scientists have deciphered the genetic blueprint...

Officials have tried poison, gassing and euthanasia to control a breeding frenzy among squirrels in a city park here. Now, they plan to give birth control a shot.Under a new program to start this summer, squirrels in Palisades Park will be injected with an immuno-contraceptive...

Mexicans have long been taught to blame diseases brought by the Spaniards for wiping out most of their Indian ancestors. But recent research suggests things may not be that simple.While the initial big die-offs are still blamed on the Conquistadors who started arriving in 1519,...

In the following essay, Achinstein observes that the publication of ballads in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England was closely associated in the public mind with the dissemination of plague.

In the following essay, Stephanson elucidates the differing symbolic functions served by the plague in two novels: Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Albert Camus's The Plague.

In the following essay, Kurman perceives common elements in six works in which a plague is prominently featured in the narrative.

Essay provides information about the plagues in Europe.