Mice carry the plague.

Rats carry the plague.

Athenian Plague begins in Athens.

It has been called the white plague .

In that period there were also plague outbreaks.

In 1650, a plague epidemic killed half its population.

The Third Plague Pandemic started in China in the middle of the 19th century, spreading plague to all inhabited continents and killing 10 million people in India alone.

Plague immunization Since human plague is rare in most parts of the world, routine vaccination is not needed other than for those at particularly high risk of exposure, nor for people living in areas with enzootic plague, such as the western United States.

The plague reached Europe in October 1347.

He became king in 1433 when his father died of the plague.

Now, everywhere in my neighborhood, all the looks bore into me like I m the plague, he said.

The plague of 1710 killed the greater part of the inhabitants of Helsinki.

In 1656, a plague broke out in the city, killing a thousand inhabitants.

In April 1819 the work stopped due to plague.

The outbreak of bubonic plague in 1894 became a concern to the Hong Kong Government.

The population of Estonia increased steadily until the outbreak of the plague in 1657.

All attempts by London public health officials to contain the disease failed, and the plague spread rapidly.

The country suffered occasional outbreaks of acute diseases (such as plague in 1994).

The plague was carried by fleas on sailing vessels returning from the ports of Asia, spreading quickly due to lack of proper sanitation the population of England, then about 4.2 million, lost 1.4 million people to the bubonic plague.

It was also hit by frequent outbreaks of plague, and by floods, particularly that of 1736, which destroyed most of the suburban buildings.

December Late December A form of pneumonic plague spreads through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.

The death toll reached a peak of 7,000 in the week of 17 September.

During late 1896, a Bubonic plague spread from Bombay to Pune, and by January 1897, it reached epidemic proportions.

From 1896 1918 the plague swept through India, taking the lives of over 12.5 million people.

Rinderpest, which is caused by a virus closely related to measles virus, is a disease of cattle known since Roman times.

However, due to the wars of Charles XII of Sweden and bubonic plague epidemics, the population dropped to 1,500 by 1727.

Early diseases that spread from Asia to Europe were bubonic plague, influenza of various types, and similar infectious disease.

In January 1791, a terrible plague raged in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt, to which Ismail Bey and most of his family fell victims.

After the great plague in 639, Umar paid a visit to Syria and was again persuaded by Amr for the invasion of Egypt.

Fear of inflation, when viewed in the context of a possible global depression, is like worrying about getting the measles when one is in danger of getting the plague.

As with the pneumonic form of bubonic plague, it was associated with breakdown of lung tissue which would cause blood to appear at the lips.

Bubonic plague, or the Black Death, originated in Asia, but its spread killed a quarter to a third of Europe s population in the fourteenth century.

The Spanish Muslims defeated the Byzantine commander Theodotus in July and August of that year, but a plague once again forced them to return to Mazara and then to Africa.

But its economy collapsed again when war broke out in 1672 and the plague decimated the city in 1673, even affecting the pipe industry.

The survivors of the plague found not only that the prices of food were cheaper but also found that lands were more abundant, and that most of them inherited property from their dead relatives.

In the first instance, the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the 14th Century caused a shortage of labour and this had led to a breakdown in the feudal system.

But look what happened in Europe after the plague rising wages, land reform, technological innovation, birth of the middle class and after that, forward looking social movements like the Renaissance, and later the Enlightenment.

The demographic decline due to the plague had some economic consequences the prices of food dropped and land values declined by 30 to 40 in most parts of Europe between 1350 and 1400.

Until June 2007, plague was one of the three epidemic diseases specifically reportable to the World Health Organization (the other two being cholera and yellow fever).

On his return home, he stopped for a while in Marrakech, which was almost a ghost town following the recent plague and the transfer of the capital to Fez.

They talk about Western liberties, including freedom of speech, but Wilders wants to ban the Koran and the burqa, and a Danish member of parliament has called Islam a plague upon Europe.

What does it say to the country and the world if a court convened to mete out justice flouts the law? Isn t lawlessness the plague we are finally trying to eradicate in Cambodia?

The development of TB chemotherapy from the 1940 s through the 1970 s transformed the once deadly white plague into a curable disease.

Adding to London's woes, but marking the end of the plague, was what later became known as the Great Fire of London, which started on 2 September 1666.

Other names have been used to describe this disease, such as The Black Plague and The Black Death the latter is now used primarily by scholars to describe the second, and most devastating, pandemic of the disease.