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The plague may, in fact, represent typical attributes of human life and mortality.
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Often the relatives plead with him not to do this, since they know they may never see the person again .</ br > Rieux works to combat the plague simply because he is a doctor and his job is to relieve human suffering.
The plague comes unannounced and may strike down anyone at any time.
Paneloux may argue that the plague is a punishment for sin, but how does he reconcile that doctrine with the death of a child?
EW may employ insects in a direct attack or as vectors to deliver a biological agent, such as plague or cholera.
Lymphatics ultimately drain into the bloodstream, so the plague bacteria may enter the blood and travel to almost any part of the body.
The Etruscans coming from northern Anatolia also worshipped Apollo, and it may be that he was originally identical with Mesopotamian Aplu, an Akkadian title meaning " son ", originally given to the plague God Nergal, son of Enlil.
In 167 CE, troop depletions by plague and desertion may have prompted Marcus Aurelius to draft gladiators at his own expense.
In 1847 the privy council ordered all arrivals with clean bills from the Black Sea and the Levant to be admitted to free pratique, provided there had been no case of plague during the voyage ; and therewith the last remnant of the once formidable quarantine practice against plague may be said to have disappeared.
For instance, one may want to know whether a high intake of carrots causes humans to develop the bubonic plague.
His army was probably laden with booty from plunder ; a plague broke out in northern Italy ; food shortages may also be responsible for Attila ´ s withdrawal, as well as military actions of the Eastern Emperor Marcianus on the Danube frontier.
This test can be performed when the plumbing is brand new, but more often it is used to find sewer gas leaks that may plague a building or an area.
* A plague that may be related to anthrax spreads across the Roman Empire, causing a drastic decline in the population.
However, brown rats may suffer from plague, as can many nonrodent species, including dogs, cats, and humans.
The first work of modern apocalyptic fiction in English may be Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man, the story of a man living in a future world which is slowly emptied of humanity by a plague.
( Later on in the book Masen again theorises that both the ' meteor shower ' and subsequent plague may have been an orbiting government weapons system that was triggered accidentally.
There may have been interaction with Ireland at this time, perhaps partly brought about by a very severe plague in Ireland in 548 / 9, only a few years after the extreme weather events of 535 – 536.
Since 2002, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) has reported seven plague outbreaks, though some may go unreported because they often happen in remote areas.
* An outbreak of a plague hits Athens and the disease ravages the densely packed city ( modern DNA analyses of material from ancient cemeteries suggest the mortal disease may have been typhus ).
Oedipus became nervous as he realized that he may have murdered Laius and so brought about the plague.
Curiously enough his date is entirely different from that given above:, 1376 ; this may suggest that two events, a migration in 1284 and a plague of rats in 1376, have become fused together.
[...] erious problems continue to plague the CNMI's administration of its immigration system, and we remain concerned that the CNMI's rapidly deteriorating fiscal situation may make it even more difficult for the CNMI government to devote the resources necessary to effectively administer its immigration system and to properly investigate and prosecute labor abuse.
While this may have been the result of the fact that Haarlem was then at the height of an outbreak of bubonic plague, within days panic had spread across the country.
While the existence of the plague may have helped create a culture of fatalistic risk-taking that allowed the speculation to skyrocket in the first place, this particular outbreak might also have been a contributing factor that helped burst the bubble.
plague and fact
Food shortages and rapidly inflating prices were a fact of life for as much as a century before the plague.
Indeed, Claire Tomalin writes that ' the most notable fact about Pepys's plague year is that to him it was one of the happiest of his life.
In fact, it is in 664 that he suddenly appears in Northumbria, to take over from his brother Cedd, also stricken by the plague.
The dispute was complicated by the fact that the theatres endured one of their longest enforced closings due to plague in this period ; they were closed almost continuously from 10 May 1636 to 2 October 1637.
The fact that Ayiana was infected with the Ancients plague when she was revived would seem to confirm Jackson's conjectures.
Based upon striking descriptive similarities with recent outbreaks in Africa, as well as the fact that the Athenian plague itself apparently came from Africa ( as Thucydides recorded ), Ebola or a related viral hemorrhagic fever has been considered.
The fact that the Russians had armed ICBMs with both plague and smallpox is revealed.
plague and represent
The years 1656, 1688 and 1694 represent sorrowful dates for Salerno: the plague and the earthquake which caused many victims.
In the Biblical fourth plague of Egypt, flies represent death and decay.
plague and typical
Parishes became strained ; one example, the records of St. Bride on Fleet Street during the London 1665 plague, shows typical methods employed by the parishes.
This is typical, as many cities have high ash populations because of their ability to tolerate urban stress and survive poor planting practices that plague urban cities today.
Like the TV series, the movie satirizes the bureaucracy and red tape which plague the Japanese police force, as well as certain elements of Japanese society, while at the same time avoiding falling into the typical formula of car chases and gunbattles that define most police dramas.
a rating of four stars out of five, writing " Sure, the humor is frothy and avoids substance like the plague, but anybody expecting anything else from a typical third-wave ska album is waging a pointless battle.
plague and human
In Revelation 9: 7-11, Abaddon is described as " The Destroyer ", the angel of the abyss, and as the king of a plague of locusts resembling horses with crowned human faces, women's hair, lions ' teeth, wings, and the tail of a scorpion that torment people for five months.
Since human plague is rare in most parts of the world, there is no need to vaccinate people other than those at particularly high risk of exposure.
When a flea bites a human and contaminates the wound with regurgitated blood, the plague carrying bacteria are passed into the tissue.
* In the roleplaying game Splicers by Palladium Books, humanity has succumbed to a " nanobot plague " that causes any object made of a non-precious metal to twist and change shape ( sometimes into a type of robot ) moments after being touched by a human.
The plague went on to eliminate a quarter to a half of the human population that it struck throughout the known world.
A less pessimistic interpretation ( still pessimistic, to be sure ) understands the myth to say: countless evils fled Pandora's jar and plague human existence ; the hope that we might be able to master these evils remains imprisoned inside the jar.
More generally, Thucydides showed an interest in developing an understanding of human nature to explain behaviour in such crises as plague, massacres, as in that of the Melians, and civil war.
Stylistically, the placement of this passage also serves to heighten the contrast with the description of the plague in Athens immediately following it, which graphically emphasizes the horror of human mortality, thereby conveying a powerful sense of verisimilitude:
pPla codes for a protease, Pla, that activates plasminogen in human hosts and is a very important virulence factor for pneumonic plague.
There is evidence that fleas from other mammals have a role in human plague outbreaks.
In a sense, the plague is metaphorical, since the revolutionary idyll of the élite group is corroded from within by flaws of human nature.
He then joins Archmage Jaina Proudmoore, who aids him in investigating a rapidly-spreading plague, which kills and turns human victims into the undead.
He had allegedly been accused of conspiring against the Emperor, performing human sacrifice, and predicting a plague by means of magic.
Primary pneumonic plague results from inhalation of fine infective droplets and can be transmitted from human to human without involvement of fleas or animals.
The Horseman spreads bubonic plague throughout eras of human civilization while searching for a woman he can love and spare.
Later, they expand their genetic program to preserve human bloodlines when mankind is endangered by a widespread plague called the " Demon Scourge ," genetically engineered and unleashed by the thinking machines.
A pest is " a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns ( as agriculture or livestock production )"; alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease associated with high mortality ( specifically: plague ).
Examples of these include those organisms which vector human disease, such as rats and fleas which carry the plague disease, mosquitoes which vector malaria, and ticks which carry Lyme disease.
* Division 1: Research on bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax, typhoid and tuberculosis using live human subjects.
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.
It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as " The Death " – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
The author also mentions George R. Stewart's novel Earth Abides, which describes the odyssey of one of the last human survivors after the population is decimated by a plague, as one of the main inspirations:
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