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

This was the same kind of fatality rate as was seen with the black plague during the Middle Ages.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston