Plague

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

Historical plagues

 * 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

Modern plagues

 * 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.

Art

 * Plague (painting), by Arnold Böcklin

Fictional entities

 * 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

Films and television

 * 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

Games

 * 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

Literature

 * 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

Artists

 * The Plague (American band), a hardcore punk band from Cleveland
 * The Plague (British band), a punk rock band
 * The Plague (New Zealand band), a theatrical punk/art rock band

Albums

 * Plague (Klinik album)
 * Plagues (album), by The Devil Wears Prada
 * The Plague, by Demon
 * The Plague (Brotha Lynch Hung album)

EPs

 * The Plague (Nuclear Assault EP)
 * The Plague (I Hate Sally EP)

Songs

 * "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

Musicals

 * Plague! The Musical, by David Massingham and Matthew Townend

Television

 * "Plague" (2003 Dead Zone episode)
 * "Plague" (2004 Deadwood episode)
 * "The Plague" (1994 Diagnosis: Murder episode)
 * "The Plague", second episode of the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Ark
 * "The Plague" (1996 Father Ted episode)
 * The Plague, English title of 2018 Spanish TV series La peste

Religion

 * 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

Technology

 * Capacitor plague, a condition afflicting computer motherboards in which capacitors fail