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Latest revision as of 08:47, April 20, 2009
Plague is a term used to describe an epidemic contagious disease, particularly in Biblical and medieval times. The Great Plagues of Egypt included afflictions other than disease; other notable plagues include the Bubonic plague or Black Death, which killed one-third of the population of Europe in the 1340s, and the Great Plague of London of 1665.