# 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, media, and entertainment
### 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
* "A Plague Tale: Innocence" and "A Plague Tale: Requiem", survival horror games set in 14th century France

### 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

### Music
#### 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