Editing Plague (section)

== 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 behaviour|swarm]] of pest insects such as locusts
** A massive attack of other [[pest (organism)|pests]] afflicting agriculture
** [[Overpopulation in wild animals]] afflicting the environment and/or agriculture
* Plague, collective noun for [[common grackle]]s

=== 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]])
* [[2007 vole plague in Castile and León|Vole plague]] in Castile and León (Spain), in 2007.