black plague

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But first, they had to survive phylloxera — a kind of black plague for wine grapes, probably carried west from resistant East Coast vines.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2022

The black plague, drought, famine, Cholera, MERS, and Ebola, have all prompted intervention by Hajj officials.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2020

“It’s not as if the black plague or the Spanish flu managed to change our nature.”

From Washington Post • May 15, 2020

Incurable diseases provoke more cures than curable ones: when the black plague reigned, leaves and ritual burnings proliferated to protect you, even if none could.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 22, 2019

Dr. Isaacson did everything she could to save Mayinga, but she was as helpless before the agent as medieval doctors had been in the face of the black plague.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston