An epidemic of pneumonic plague has hit the Congo among diamond miners recently. |
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Smallpox is among the most contagious, followed by pneumonic plague and perhaps some hemorrhagic fevers, depending on the type. |
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It's World AIDS Day, a time to remember that in some countries today a plague is raging on a scale not seen since the Middle Ages. |
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The number of measles cases is fast rising, and if this continues children could die, and the disease could become the plague it once was. |
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A plague of crickets swarmed through a train in York station, forcing hundreds of passengers to evacuate. |
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As if the people of Darfur, in western Sudan, didn't have enough to contend with, now there's the prospect of a plague of locusts. |
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This fragrance was specially formulated to neutralize malodors, that commonly plague our pets. |
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If anyone could rid the castle of its plague of rats, he would be rewarded with ten sacks of gold and her hand in marriage when she came of age. |
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Australia is battling its biggest plague of locusts in decades as billions of the insects hatch along the central east region. |
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No plague of locusts descends, the oceans don't boil over with frogs, and the apocalypse isn't ushered in because of our discovery. |
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An investigation by environmental health chiefs has failed to find the cause of a plague of flies bringing misery to a Rotherham neighbourhood. |
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The impact of these disasters was worsened by a major earthquake and a plague of locusts that destroyed newly planted crops. |
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He ordered four men to stay behind at the base camp at Cooper's Creek to guard a stock of provisions against a plague of rats. |
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But then an almost biblical plague of insects descended on the crops and began eating them. |
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Experts are warning that Africa is on the brink of its worst plague of the insects for nearly 20 years. |
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Another woman, with early symptoms of Bubonic plague, was told she was malingering. |
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When a plague of locusts and a bad drought struck the country last year, devastating the crops, the prospect of a famine in 2005 loomed large. |
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It seems to have set off a whole plague of linguistic confusion among commentators. |
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Also, the Tartars carried the plague closer to Europe and into other trading ports after sieges in Asia. |
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Doctors' leaders warn the amount of time available to patients with genuine problems is being reduced because of the plague of hypochondriacs. |
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As the recurring plague of election speculation hit the Sunday newspapers again, the Lord Mayor's views on the issue will be of some interest. |
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Nowadays production companies try to avoid such situations like the plague. |
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Catriona Boyle and Joanna Kerr give advice on a plague of wild garlic and barren fruit trees. |
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In truth, the SEC's plan will force corporations to fend off a costly plague of frivolous proxy fights just as they fend off frivolous lawsuits. |
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A worried mum is convinced a mobile phone mast is responsible for the plague of health problems affecting her children. |
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In building a market, though, it may fall victim to the troubles that plague trailblazing companies, analysts said. |
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A warning to Labour and the Liberal Democrats, this is not about confidence, a plague on all your houses. |
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We do feel the creator's anger, in cursing them with a plague on both their houses, as frogs rain from the sky. |
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Perhaps the voters were so turned off by politicians they were saying a plague on both your houses? |
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Other than that, I'd wish a plague on all their houses if I could muster enough spite. |
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So, no awkward adolescents like him, no teenage angst, unrequited crushes or similar problems that plague parents. |
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Although trouble spots still plague the species, U.S. loon numbers appear, on the whole, to be holding steady. |
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Decentralization leads to greater ownership, which in turn overcomes the collective action problems that plague all political campaigns. |
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Unfortunately, the many methodological problems that plague past opinion polls require cautious interpretation of their results. |
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Two specialist teams armed with the latest surveillance technology will target troublemakers who plague estates throughout Bolton. |
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I have none of the guilt that seems to plague many well-intentioned, but frustrated anglophones and francophones. |
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Here, we present the entire nucleotide sequence of the mt genome of the plague thrips, Thrips imaginis. |
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In an effort to keep my sanity, I've avoided his speeches like the plague over the last six months. |
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Many serious dramatic actors seem to avoid romantic comedy like the plague. |
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As early as the fourteenth century Europeans had suspected that rats spread the plague from quarantined merchant ships to the port cities. |
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Lives are being put at risk in a village because of a plague of pigeons, a woman has claimed. |
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I have a dangerously addictive personality, which is why I avoid drugs like the plague. |
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The Persian jird is resistant to infection by the plague whereas Tristram's jird is highly susceptible to plague infection and disease. |
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Abruptly, Shawn realized a reason why Emma had been avoiding him like the plague. |
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He acknowledged to himself that he viewed Horatio as more than an officer when he was quarantined on that plague ship. |
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Since then, the earl had seen people dying in the great plague, the clergy conspicuous by its absence. |
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He is clearly marketed to win mindshare over the superheroes that plague so much children's programming. |
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Clinical features of pneumonic plague include fever, cough with mucopurulent sputum, hemoptysis and chest pain. |
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The fear of plague necessitated a thorough clean-up operation involving a major task to trap the rats and kill them. |
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Other than that, the world would be a Utopia, void of the overly verbose descriptions of fantasy dreamscapes that plague today's society. |
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Recently, Charles Dempsey observed that this work, an ex-voto painted in response to Rome's plague of 1656, incites fear and pity. |
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The physical exertions would plague him for days, never mind the damage it would wreak on his mental ability. |
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Supply shortfalls could plague China for at least two more years, Liang believes. |
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As the death toll from the plague mounted, so did tensions between the warlike Mongols and Italians plying their trade on the Black Sea. |
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The other powerful ingredient in the deadly mix of black-on-black violence is the plague of gangs and drugs. |
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The plague likely spread to Europe on the backs of shipboard black rats that carried plague-infested fleas. |
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The overall visa problem is really a morass of smaller problems that plague international students and visiting scientists. |
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I do believe Mobile phones makes us more productive, which is why I avoid them like the plague. |
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The clothing and bedding of plague victims are particularly dangerous, as are wooden buildings, earthen floors, rubbish heaps, and dunghills. |
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Mine seem to vanish as though a plague of boojums is lurking in the corner of my hallway. |
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His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today. |
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They could poison us with botulin, or try to infect us with the plague or anthrax. |
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After the ruler's next refusal, a plague of locusts smote the land and Moses brought a darkness for three days. |
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Dr Edmiston explained how anthrax, smallpox variola virus, botulism, and pneumonic plague fit the criteria. |
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There she was attacked by the plague demon, Namtar, smitten with disease from head to foot and kept prisoner by the Queen. |
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When a plague outbreak became really severe it was sometimes necessary to bury the dead in unsanctified ground. |
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He also took to donning a white greasepaint visage, designed to mimic the pallor of 13 th-century plague victims. |
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The library was now open and it was time to find out why Emily was avoiding this place like the black plague. |
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Mankind has become like a plague to the planet, it offers it no ecological benefit, and upsets the existing ecological equilibrium. |
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Drug dealers who plague Swindon's streets are today warned that police are on their tail. |
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The atrabilious maladies to which artists were supposedly vulnerable included lovesickness and plague. |
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A sharp piercing pain struck right through her stomach and, like a deadly plague, spread out through her body. |
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Bubonic plague is characterized by painful, swollen lymph nodes called buboes that are often hot to the touch. |
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Bubonic plague first arrived in the late spring or early summer of that year. |
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After the plague of viruses and worms, the main security issues of 2003 were identity theft, spam, keyboard loggers and social engineering. |
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Pneumonia was prevalent, the bubonic plague was endemic, and doctors were little more than optimistic quacks. |
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Perspectives are the root, the basic fiber, and the foundation of every social plague impoverishing us. |
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In addition to treating tuberculosis, streptomycin was effective against typhoid fever, cholera, bubonic plague and other diseases. |
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Love's a plague again, that's for sure, but this time the sentiment is spoken with an auditor's clarity. |
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The other half shows a flat and grassless prairie, gnawed clean by a recent plague of grasshoppers. |
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Though Americans are notoriously litigious, the plague of lawsuits is largely a myth. |
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Their research can help head off not only the Nipah but also other virulent diseases that break out suddenly to plague man and beast. |
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After men came to terms with the psychological shock of the plague visitations, society adjusted remarkably well, though not without turmoil. |
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Victims of the plague were treated by blood-letting, purging with laxatives and the lancing of the plague-boils. |
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The irritating midges plague outdoor workers at the home of Britain's nuclear deterrent on Gareloch all year round. |
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Those who died were buried in a separate plague cemetery in the grounds, in graves demarcated only by numbers. |
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The plague decimated the working population of Europe, and this left large tracts of land vacant. |
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Two men stricken with the plague were going from merchant to merchant begging. |
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Residents across the country are being urged to take a stand against vandals, thugs and yobs that plague their communities. |
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The equipment is so sophisticated it can even pinpoint some of the hundreds of hoax callers who plague police every year. |
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Ultimately there are no obvious villains in the plague upon our froggy friends, and that is what's most frightening of all. |
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Though researchers are busy working on vaccines for plague and canine distemper, such tools are still a long way off. |
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With no fruits and few vegetables, and in such cramped quarters, I fear the oncoming of plague greatly. |
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Sometimes Phyconos would wonder if the spirits of the plague victims still haunt the town in which the vampires lived. |
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If a novel was riddled with the flat-footed cliches that plague so many science books, the critics would skewer it. |
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It is clear that the capital is the fountainhead of the ills that plague the country. |
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The catastrophic plague losses of the Black Death helped fuel an obsession with the afterlife and to popularize chantries. |
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Epizootics, such as outbreaks of cattle plague or foot and mouth disease, have repeatedly wreaked economic havoc without making people sick. |
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Prohibition led to gangland warfare and a permanent plague of organized crime. |
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Information has been selected to assist with National Curriculum studies in schools and features subjects including the plague at Eyam. |
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Conditions in Australian cities were so poor that Sydney suffered an outbreak of plague at the turn of the century. |
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But I understood that the fall of the Western Roman Empire was preceded by a population collapse due to repeated plague like epidemics. |
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In the Middle Ages the onion was used as a charm against evil spirits, the plague and infection. |
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Cholera, plague, smallpox, malaria, kalaazar, leprosy and venereal diseases are the others considered. |
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Barlow also prefers writing songs about issues that currently plague the world, rather than hokey love songs. |
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The legend of the notable Saint Anton is connected to plague victims and all diseases. |
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Mice in near biblical plague numbers crowd my abode, also pack rats and kangaroo rats. |
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Cool nights and streets that are free of the traffic snarls and pollution which plague Bangkok mean it's the ideal place to chill out and relax. |
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Mr. Lorry asks if the retention of the thing might not lead to the retention of the ideas that plague him and cause his shock. |
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What was once a world icon is now stipulated to be left for dead in the wake of the devastating plague. |
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Moreover, the only diseases that members are required to report are yellow fever, plague and cholera. |
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Residents worry that they will be further harmed when coal and coke are added to the mix of emissions and dust that already plague the area. |
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The problem does not plague Shanghai alone, although Shanghai faces the biggest one in China. |
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What seems to plague both of these films and so many like them is their patent insincerity. |
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It has become an accepted part of our daily lives, like so many of the ills that plague our society. |
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Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades. |
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I don't have answers, but I do have the deep, imponderable questions that plague the world of business. |
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His beat is the woebegone parts of the planet most people avoid like the plague. |
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To talk about an epidemic of obesity is like talking about a plague of inactivity or a contagion of overeating. |
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He created a low-budget, effectively fatalistic horror film about a man-made plague that wipes out humanity. |
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The endless favelas in the major cities are a daily reminder to Brazilians of the tremendous social ills that plague their country. |
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There, a Genoese colony was under siege from a khan of the Golden Horde named Yannibeg, when his army was decimated by an outbreak of plague. |
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While cakes and confectionery should be avoided like the plague in Spain, Portuguese sweets and chocolate are of the highest quality. |
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In this way, they spread disease, plague, leprosy, typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, and so on. |
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Crime, fear and grinding poverty plague some of the inner-city regions of Leeds as the gap between rich and poor grows ever wider. |
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But the eviction is just the first step towards rebuilding community spirit, which has been ruined by a plague of anti-social behavior. |
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The pneumonic plague would be the form most likely implicated in the event of an intentional attack. |
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If pneumonic plague is suspected, local and state health departments must be notified immediately. |
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The only way to escape the ravages of the plague is to find a place the zombies can't reach. |
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Bubonic and septicaemic plague are caused by the flea bites, while pneumonic plague can be passed directly between people. |
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The high level of mortality and infectivity of pneumonic plague is the driving force for the development of new and more effective vaccines. |
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Bubonic and pneumonic plague had killed between one-third and one-half of the rural population, causing a severe labor shortage. |
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It was intended to keep the rabbits, that were in plague proportions, on one side, and the pasturelands on the other, preserving them for farming. |
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A plague of March flies, which lasted about a week, worried us very much. |
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In 1695, still under an imposed silence, she died in a plague sweeping the capital. |
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Or perhaps the plague of strawberry Quick-flavored meth that was luring children into a life of addiction and penury. |
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Continued banditry and firefights plague many of the provinces. |
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With kamala Khan, Marvel is smashing the tired stereotype by showing the universality of issues that plague teenagers. |
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Nonetheless they showed Andersen a way to write stories with unhappy endings while avoiding the sentimentality and melodrama that plague his novels. |
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Popular legend would have it that the cause of the plague was traced to an old beggar man, who was buried under a heap of stones by the infuriated populace. |
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Violence against women continues to plague Turkey, and a pioneering new female political party blames Erdogan's machismo. |
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That here is an athlete of such power, skill and bloody-minded determination that victory is accepted quietly, as if expected, and defeat like a plague on his house. |
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Binge drinkers and booze-fuelled brawlers who plague Kingston town centre at night face on-the-spot fines in a police crackdown on loutish behaviour. |
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The upset father said he was not only worried about the physical injuries but also the mental trauma that would probably plague the boy for years to come. |
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But Lebanon was a tiny country where the fighting could be contained like a plague in a petri dish. |
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The bubonic plague typically presents two to eight days after exposure, with sudden onset of fever, chills, weakness, and acutely swollen lymph nodes called buboes. |
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Both pneumonic plague and bubonic plague are caused by the same organism. |
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Rest assured that only on rare occasions do epidemics such as bubonic plague in India and diphtheria in Russia present a much more widespread threat. |
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As you may already know, I work on my Heart Smarts goodwill program full time, helping people fight off vices that plague their lives, like gambling and genocide. |
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Were the Socialists in London responsible for the problems that later came to plague the fledgling state of Pakistan and continue to haunt it to this day? |
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In a sandy field of half-grown cassava plants, a group of 30 farmers were fighting a plague of locusts with long-handled weeding hoes and improvised brushes. |
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The growing national plague of oxy addictions, overdoses, and deaths was caused by the illegal activity of some doctors, pharmacists, and patients. |
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Why did my body have to plague me with this perpetual horniness? |
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There can be up to 40 billion locusts in one swarm. During one plague in Somalia, the locusts devoured enough food to feed 400,000 people for a whole year. |
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We are currently suffering a plague of monster house spiders. |
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Now, blessed be God, all our fears are over for none have died of the plague since the eleventh of October and the pest-houses have long been empty. |
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The country has been hit by a plague of Colorado beetles that poses a serious danger to potato and tomato crops, according to a report reaching here today. |
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While growing succeeded there for decades, a plague of the plant louse phylloxera, followed by Prohibition and then the Depression, set the region back for years. |
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This is how this type of misinformation spreads throughout the Air Force and infects every level with a plague of bad practices that are perpetuated internally. |
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If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. |
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Asymptomatic people exposed to plague aerosol or people with suspected pneumonic plague may be given antibiotics for the duration of the risk of exposure plus one week. |
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The conquest of major epidemic diseases such as the plague and smallpox was an important contribution, but vulnerability to disease had persisted as a result of poor health. |
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Traffic was affected not only by the vicissitudes of the business cycle and the Panic of 1873 but also by flour mill explosions and even a plague of locusts. |
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Whole streets were blocked off by vegetable sellers, litter grew out of control, there was a plague of giant rats, whites fled and murder and other crimes soared. |
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To some parents, accustomed to the security of child-friendly TV schedules, the advent of the internet seemed like a plague of indecency intruding into the family home. |
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Even at this distance, just at the edge of the system, the planet's plague of electrical storms was just about visible as tiny blue and white flashes all across its surface. |
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By removing the exchange rate and interest rates from the direct control of Italian authorities, the plague of high inflation and high interest rates disappeared. |
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Scammers plague people who are buying a new car for the first time. |
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I mean if you take plague, for example, plague was more a conjunction of circumstances to do with natural patterns in wild animals and natural disasters, wasn't it? |
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The recycling feature that plagues the graphics and sound also plague the gameplay, considering that most of the style moves are virtually cribbed from the original title. |
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He died of the plague between June and September 1596, after having declared in his testament that he wished to be buried in the church of the Franciscans of Laon. |
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He believes, however, that the funicular will plague the Westminster government and the Scottish Executive for years to come, particularly at election times. |
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While the first recorded catapulting of plague victims' bodies into a besieged city is by the Mongols, Mayor reveals that the ancients also made use of primitive germ warfare. |
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The constant plague of dreams had desensitized him to its images, and so he now only saw the visions fly past his eyes without actually feeling anything. |
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Among the more traditional remedies for plague fever were the various organic purgatives, including phlebotomy, diaphoretics, diuretics, emetics, and laxatives. |
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That is, epizootics, such as outbreaks of cattle plague or foot and mouth disease, repeatedly have wreaked economic havoc without making people sick. |
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The Stag was conceived originally as a traditional drop-top but early prototypes suffered from the dreaded body-wobbles that tend to plague convertibles. |
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Now Antonius being a fair young man and in the prime of his youth, he fell acquainted with Curio, whose friendship and acquaintance was a plague unto him. |
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The plague made a brief appearance in China earlier this year and continues in the U.S. with a few cases annually. |
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Where better to test cultures of anthrax, typhoid, plague and tularemia than on an island in a sea in the middle of the desert? |
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A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 40 people so far, and due to antibiotic resistance, it could kill many more. |
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Why is violence against women central to so many of the conflicts that plague the planet today? |
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As I described in an article over the summer when the fatal case in China was diagnosed, plague has three distinct clinical forms. |
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Last November, a series of fires began to plague the small California city of Brawley. |
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In it, Mather the Elder gave special thanks to God for the devastating plague of smallpox which wiped out the majority of the Wampanoag Indians who had been their benefactors. |
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After all, plague is one of the diseases that can be weaponized. |
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Nor was it ignorance that spurred him to fashion numerous additional devices that ensured his plague picture would kindle its audience's most painful passions. |
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As is the wont with all our film heroes who wax eloquent on the plague of video piracy only when their films are slated for a release, Chiranjeevi too was no exception. |
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Without that response the endangered yellowhead, which lives in that valley, will be in grave danger if rat numbers continue to rise and reach plague proportions. |
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Similar stories plague many parts of Latin America, Africa, and eastern Asia. |
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The symptoms of plague were swollen lymph nodes in the armpits and groin known as buboes, hence Bubonic Plague, and death followed within hours or a few days at the most. |
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A futuristic Goth musical, Repo is set in a time when the human race is afflicted by a plague of organ failures. |
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Although we may tend to laugh at the flagellants and read them off as lunatics, they did help medieval men and women cope with the ravages of the plague. |
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The hot weather is baking the already miserable townspeople, and the summer that used to be for sunbathing and holidays is now given to the plague. |
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Otherwise we are merely callow modernizers or cavalier avant-gardists, who in seeking to eradicate the past will discover that it returns with a vengeance to plague us. |
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Once you apologize, you should avoid the subject like the plague. |
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In the 14th century during a siege of Kaffa, which is now the Ukraine, the Tartars catapulted bodies infected with the plague over the town walls. |
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The Tartars used such a method against the Genoese in Crimea in 1346 and the fleeing Genoese tragically spread the black plague from Asia to Europe. |
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One is able to regard the country as very healthy, despite the regrettable maladies that frequently afflict it in the form of plague, dysentery and small pox. |
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The book ends with the haunting observation that although the plague bacillus can go into hiding for years and years, it never dies or disappears for good. |
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It is an old enemy, the lethal form of a familiar virus, and a threat that has recurred down the centuries with animals the carriers, as the plague was spread by rats. |
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For as long as causes of plague were subjects of debate, less attention, quite reasonably, was given to hypochondria. |
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The plague in Wales and the Marches were as pitiless as elsewhere. |
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Biographers believe that Bacon was educated at home in his early years owing to poor health, which would plague him throughout his life. |
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Eadulf, a Saxon noble, was appointed to organise the defence of Sussex but died from the plague before much could be done. |
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After the plague, many farms lay idle while the population slowly increased. |
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Bubonic plague and warfare reduced population numbers throughout Europe during this period. |
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The population of England was reduced by 20 to 33 percent due to plague in the same period. |
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In 1665, Muddiman produced the Oxford Gazette as a digest of news of the royal court, which was in Oxford to avoid the plague in London. |
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Further problems were caused by a notorious hooligan element among the support, which was to plague the club throughout the decade. |
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By May, with plague rampant in his army and no sign of success against the city, Napoleon was forced to retreat into Egypt. |
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Waldemar Haffkine, who mainly worked in India, became the first microbiologist to develop and deploy vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague. |
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In 1785 around one sixth of the Egyptian population died from plague and Aleppo saw its population reduced by twenty percent in the 18th century. |
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This lack of understanding between the flak and flying branches of the defence would plague the Luftwaffe throughout the war. |
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On 24 June 2009 it was reported that no traces of anthrax or bubonic plague had been found on human bone fragments discovered during tunnelling. |
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The plague is thought to have returned every generation with varying virulence and mortalities until the 18th century. |
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Other diseases lent themselves to the practice of quarantine before and after the devastation of the plague. |
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In 1467, Genoa followed the example of Venice, and in 1476 the old leper hospital of Marseille was converted into a plague hospital. |
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The convention covers cases of Asiatic cholera, oriental plague and yellow fever. |
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The British regulations of 9 November 1896 applied to yellow fever, plague and cholera. |
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Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. |
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However, the English were less affected by this plague as they had far fewer trading contacts with the continent at this time. |
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Maelgwn eventually died in 547 from the plague leaving a succession crisis in his wake. |
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However, the period from 1350 to 1400 was difficult, with recurrences of the plague and heavy taxation to pay for the war with France. |
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It suffered a severe blow in 1349 when almost half the townspeople died of plague when the Black Death arrived in the town. |
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In 1348, the Black Death, a lethal plague which had ravaged Europe, took hold in Dublin and killed thousands over the following decade. |
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Just a few years before the latter earthquake, the island was struck by a ferocious plague. |
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It's easy to overromanticize the Middle Ages, but they were full of plague and poverty. |
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Fisher obliged, but sent only yellow and black flags signifying plague and quarantine. |
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The weakening of the economic system combined with the effects of plague left Egypt vulnerable to foreign invasion. |
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Brown rats are sometimes mistakenly thought to be a major reservoir of bubonic plague, a possible cause of the Black Death. |
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However, brown rats may suffer from plague, as can many nonrodent species, including dogs, cats, and humans. |
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This theory has, however, been deprecated, as the dates of these displacements do not match the increases and decreases in plague outbreaks. |
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Chryses prays for Apollo's help, and Apollo causes a plague to afflict the Greek army. |
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After nine days of plague, Achilles, the leader of the Myrmidon contingent, calls an assembly to deal with the problem. |
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Odysseus takes a ship and returns Chryseis to her father, whereupon Apollo ends the plague. |
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At the beginning of the 16th century Labourd saw the emergence of the plague. |
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The plague also returned in 1647 and the registers again show an increase of from 22 burials to 217 in one year. |
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However, Dorset was devastated by the bubonic plague in 1348 which arrived in Melcombe Regis on a ship from Gascony. |
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Gregory was elected by acclamation to succeed Pelagius II in 590, when the latter died of the plague spreading through the city. |
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Until the arrival of bubonic plague in northern Norway in 1349, the Sami and the Norwegians occupied very separate economic niches. |
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Of all the states in the region, Norway suffered the most from this plague. |
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In Thor's case, he continues, these sacrifices were done when plague or famine threatened. |
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The plague known as the Black Death, which started in the Mongol dominions and spread to Europe, added to the confusion. |
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Eight hundred years after the Plague of Justinian, the bubonic plague returned to Europe. |
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The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean from 14th through 17th centuries. |
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Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis. |
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It may also result from exposure to the body fluids from a dead plague infected animal. |
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Prevention is through public health measures such as not handling dead animals in areas where plague is common. |
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Because the plague killed so many of the working population, wages rose due to the demand for labor. |
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Buboes associated with the bubonic plague are commonly found in the armpits, upper femoral, groin and neck region. |
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Bubonic plague symptoms appear suddenly a few days after exposure to the bacterium. |
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The plague is also known to spread to the lungs and become the disease known as the pneumonic plague. |
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People who have had contact with anyone infected by pneumonic plague are given prophylactic antibiotics. |
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In late 1346, plague broke out among the besiegers and from them penetrated into the town. |
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For example, in 1940, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service bombed Ningbo with fleas carrying the bubonic plague. |
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Soon after he was named Prince of Asturias, Isabella's younger brother Alfonso died in July 1468, likely of the plague. |
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A similar problem would plague the Bruges branch of the bank when managed by the third Portinari brother, Tommaso. |
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In Elizabethan times, because nutmeg was believed to ward off the plague, demand increased and its price skyrocketed. |
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Along with the Jesuit missions later came disease among the natives, among them plague and smallpox. |
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The resulting cholera, anthrax, and plague were estimated to have killed around 400,000 Chinese civilians. |
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A common use is in disaster films, where the protagonists must avoid the effects of the plague, for example zombies. |
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Conditions under Oprichnina were worsened by the 1570 epidemics of plague that killed 10,000 people in Novgorod. |
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Eurasian diseases such as influenza, bubonic plague and pneumonic plagues devastated the Native Americans who did not have immunity to them. |
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It is likely that Cruz returned to Portugal in 1565, returning to Lisbon in 1569, where he was documented helping victims of the plague. |
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Meanwhile, Castile was ravaged by a plague that had arrived by ship from the north, losing half a million people. |
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This was partially due to plague outbreaks, and partially due to the huge casualties caused by almost continuous warfare. |
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Like most of Europe, Spain had suffered from famine and plague during the 14th and 15th centuries. |
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The price of food rose during the years of the plague, and then began to fall as the population of nations decreased. |
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In August 1519, Zurich was struck by an outbreak of the plague during which at least one in four persons died. |
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This seems to be a recrudescent strain of the plague rather than a wholly new disease. |
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A plague hit southern Norway in the 6th century, with hundreds of farms being depopulated. |
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Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal. |
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Here his time was ended by a bronchial disease of the kind that was to plague him throughout his long life. |
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A bad temper does seem often favourable to health. The man who has been a Turk all his life lives long to plague all about him. |
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On Borgen, grandstanding and deceit still plague the political process. |
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You may find that upcroppings of guilt can plague you for months after a pregnancy loss. |
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Weaponized anthrax is a biological terror weapon, whereas anthrax found in the wild is unlikely to cause a plague. |
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And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem. |
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The illustrious Bruce and others imagine, that in the zimb of Abyssinia they recognize the fly plague which afflicted the Egyptians. |
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The story brings to life the food chain of glass shrimps, wrigglers, plague minnows, and of course water scorpions. |
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The Yersinia species of pathogens can cause the bubonic plague and serious gastrointestinal infections in humans. |
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An experimental study of the possibility for the preservation of the causative agent of plague in the nest substrate of the long-tailed suslik. |
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Orphaned by a worldwide plague of vicious, zombielike vampires, a teenager is rescued by a rogue vampire-hunter. |
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Therefore, the odds of you getting the plague from a flea in your home is about one in a skillion jillion. |
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This restriction avoided comparing rural to urban CBGs because plague tends to occur in rural to lightly suburbanized areas. |
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But in west Belfast, where the plague of joyriding is at its worst, thousands of people have signed up and been counted. |
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Flea, rodent, and plague ecology at Chuchupate Camp ground, Ventura County, California. |
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The country was hit by a plague of natural disasters that year. |
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As a tool of social activism, plague functions as a double-edged sword. |
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The goal is to help farmers avoid the blights that plague the industry, like leaf rust fungus. |
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Compounding the low rainfall is the spread of water-hogging salt cedar, a plague throughout Texas. |
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After the plague struck in 1967 entry to huge areas was forbidden and disinfectant footbaths were placed at the entrance to every farm. |
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No, it isn't anthrax or smallpox or bubonic plague or some other deadly germ brewed by bioterrorists. |
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Also, measuring the output force via the motion of an inertial mass avoids resonance problems which plague rigid fixture tests. |
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After all, what epistemological problem could plague a eugenicist of the twenties and thirties more than the essential unknowability of the gene? |
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These observations suggest that in Lushoto District human fleas may play a role in plague epidemiology. |
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Decomposing corpses led to a rampant plague so severe it spread to Syria. |
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Tick-borne encephalitides, dengue fever and plague are predicted to increase. |
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He explains why many diseases that plague us today, including sickle-cell anemia and hemochromatosis, actually helped our ancestors survive. |
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