Some suspect that this American crayfish carries some disease, such as the crayfish plague known in Europe, that eliminates zarigani.

Some of the diseases the house mouse carries can be deadly: for example, leptospirosis, murine typhus, rickettsialpox, tularemia, lymphocytic choriomeningitis and potentially bubonic plague.

The townspeople shun the doctor with the strange demeanor, but he advances the since proved theory that a flea on rats carries the plague.

Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.

) At the intercession of Moses, Aaron was saved from the plague which smote the people ( Deuteronomy 9: 20, Exodus 32: 35 ), although it was against Aaron ’ s tribe of Levi that the work of punitive vengeance was committed ( Exodus 32: 26 ).

During the Black Death in Europe, people believed that carrying a ball of ambergris could help prevent them from getting the plague.

The people of Ashdod were smitten with hemorrhoids ; a plague of rats was sent over the land ( 1 Sam.

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.

These observations led him to suspect that the flea might be an intermediary factor in the transmission of plague, since people acquired plague only if they were in contact with recently dead rats, who had died less than 24 hours before.

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.

Routine vaccination is not necessary for people living in areas with enzootic plague such as the western United States.

However, many people escaped again from the city, and there were several outbreaks of plague, so that in 1459 Mehmet allowed the deported Greeks to come back to the city.

During its initial, and most deadly waves, approximately 200, 000 people were killed by the plague, and, by the 15th century, Cairo's population had been reduced to between 150, 000 and 300, 000.

A plague the same year caused Sigehere and his people to recant their Christianity and Essex reverted to Paganism a third time.

The great plague of 1596 – 1602 killed 600, 000 to 700, 000 people, or about 10 % of the population.

The Third Plague Pandemic started in China in the middle of the 19th century, spreading plague to all inhabited continents and killing 10 million people in India alone.

The people were struck with a plague that killed 14, 700 persons, and was only ended when Aaron went with his censer into the midst of the people.

* Third Pandemic, started in China in the middle of the 19th century, spreading plague to all inhabited continents and killing 10 million people in India alone.

The cause of English Sweat in 16th-century England, which struck people down in an instant and was more greatly feared than even the bubonic plague, is still unknown.

In three years the plague killed some 50, 000 people.

These actions led to a local plague that killed 121 people.

* May – The bubonic plague breaks out in the Tai Ping Shan area of Hong Kong ( by the end of the year, the death toll is 2, 552 people ).

He rose still higher in the favor of the people when they witnessed his self-denying devotion during the time of a great plague and famine.

The plague struck the region between 1720 and 1722, beginning in Marseille, killing some 40, 000 people.

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

Fleeing the country, he encountered the plague at Pińczów ; three of his four children were carried off ; and he himself, worn out by misfortune, expired in solitude and obscurity at Slavkov in Moravia, about the end of 1564.

Amulet ( 800 BC – 612 BC ) to ward off plague inscribed with a quotation from the Akkadian Erra Epic

At about the same time, the plague outbreak tapered off.

A rust plague in the late 1880s killed off much of the plantation stocks in Sukabumi, before spreading to Central Java and parts of East Java.

For instance, when plague broke out in Algiers ' overcrowded slave pens in 1662, some said that it carried off 10, 000 – 20, 000 of the city's 30, 000 captives.

# Dever ( pestilence )— A plague killed off the Egyptian livestock

Though a plague carried off 10, 000 of the inhabitants in 1376, the town seems to have remained tolerably prosperous until the 16th century.

Originally the water of Cologne was believed to have the power to ward off bubonic plague.

The rite, resembling, on one hand, the sending off of the basket with the woman embodying wickedness to the land of Shinar in the vision of Zechariah (), and, on the other, the letting loose of the living bird into the open field in the case of the leper healed from the plague (), was, indeed, viewed by the people of Jerusalem as a means of ridding themselves of the sins of the year.

It has been suggested that the lyrics refer to the black plague, with parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme being four herbs used to ward off the smell of the dead or dying.

That it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

When Fuchs 1834 separated references to ergotism from erysipelas and other afflictions, he found the earliest reference to ergotism in the Annales Xantenses for the year 857: " a Great plague of swollen blisters consumed the people by a loathsome rot, so that their limbs were loosened and fell off before death.

He soon discovered that the Patuxet, as well as a majority of coastal New England tribes ( mostly Wampanoag and Massachusett ), had been killed off the year before by an epidemic plague, possibly smallpox ; it has recently been postulated as having been leptospirosis.

In 1628 a plague went off which lasted for three years decimating population of the town.

It was sometimes called S. salvatrix ( sage the savior ), and was one of the ingredients of Four Thieves Vinegar, a blend of herbs which was supposed to ward off the plague.

Many crosses were built to ward off the plague epidemic ( 1896-1906 ).

Chad faced the same problem over ordination as Wilfrid, and so set off to seek ordination amid the chaos caused by the plague.

The Punisher # 4 ( 2010 ), where the Marvel Universe is infected by a cannibal plague, the Taskmaster is killed when the Red Hulk tears his head off.

Short of cash, the attractive Conder apparently paid off his landlady by sexual means, catching syphilis in the process, which was to plague the later years of his life.

They had more adventures ; facing the Decepticon Triple Changers and a plague of Scraplets, as well as facing off with a Decepticon strike force sent to destroy Galvatron and Ultra Magnus.

The bark of the tree, placed at the door, was supposed to ward off plague.

She proceeded to take her revenge by killing off half the kingdom, which by then belonged to her and Dharmodayana's son Airlangga, with plague before being overcome by a holy man.

* The initials VSR ( Viva San Rocco or Long Live St. Rocco ), found above doorways in Europe: a plea to ward off the plague.