There is a peaceful image of Rieux lying motionless on his back gazing up at the stars and moon, and then when Tarrou joins him they swim side by side, " with the same zest, the same rhythm, isolated from the world, at last free of the town and of the plague.

He will then tell Lycus that she has died of the Cretan plague, and will offer to remove the body.

The bubonic plague bacterium then infects a new victim, and the flea eventually dies from starvation.

In 1665, London was swept by a visitation of the plague, and then, in 1666, the capital was swept by the Great Fire, which raged for 5 days, destroying approximately 15, 000 buildings.

In a famous example, in 1347 the bubonic plague erupted in the besieging Mongol army outside the walls of Caffa, Crimea where the disease then spread throughout Europe as the Black Death.

On his return in 1545, he assisted the prominent physician Louis Serre in his fight against a major plague outbreak in Marseille, and then tackled further outbreaks of disease on his own in Salon-de-Provence and in the regional capital, Aix-en-Provence.

In 1362, shortly after the birth of a daughter, Eletta ( same name as Petrarch's mother ), they joined Petrarch in Venice to flee the plague then ravaging parts of Europe.

In 1721 two vessels laden with cotton goods from Cyprus, then a seat of plague, were ordered to be burned with their cargoes, the owners receiving £ 23, 935 as indemnity.

The disease-carrying fleas from the bodies would then infest the city, and the plague would spread allowing the city to be easily captured, although this transmission mechanism was not known at the time.

Their construction was prompted when the Mayor and Corporation of London first banned plays in 1572 as a measure against the plague, and then formally expelled all players from the city in 1575.

In 1624, a horrible plague haunted Palermo, and during this hardship St Rosalia appeared first to a sick woman, then to a hunter to whom she indicated where her remains were to be found.

In January 1681, as a precaution against an outbreak of plague then affecting Magdeburg, he and his second wife Dorothea moved to the home of his son Hans Otto in Hamburg.

Later in 259, he moved to Edessa, but an outbreak of plague killed a critical number of legionaries, weakening the Roman position in Edessa which was then besieged by the Persians.

He then joins Archmage Jaina Proudmoore, who aids him in investigating a rapidly-spreading plague, which kills and turns human victims into the undead.

An oracle of Apollo then sends a plague sweeping through the Greek armies, and Agamemnon is forced to give Chryseis back in order to end it, so Agamemnon sends Odysseus to return Chryseis to her father.

The outraged goddess cursed the country with plague and famine ; in order to put an end to the calamity, the inhabitants of Patrae were instructed by the oracle of Delphi to sacrifice both lovers to the goddess and, from then on, to sacrifice the handsomest young man and the most beautiful girl of the city each year, until a new strange deity is introduced in Patrae.

Macha ruled together with Cimbáeth for seven years, until he died of plague at Emain Macha, and then a further fourteen years on her own, until she was killed by Rechtaid Rígderg.

When the shocked dancers try to unmask him, they find nothing but an empty shroud and a Mask ; then they die from the plague, one by one.

Servius cites Petronius as his source for a custom at Massilia of allowing a poor man, during times of plague, to volunteer to serve as a scapegoat, receiving support for a year at public expense and then being expelled.

Giorgione died, probably of the plague then raging, by October, 1510.

The Council of Basel first suspended him, declared him a heretic, and then in November 1439 elected an antipope, Felix V. The rival Council of Florence ( moved to avoid plague in Ferrara ) concluded in 1445 after negotiating unions with the various eastern churches.

O ' Neill then releases it in Ireland ( for supporting the terrorists ), England ( for oppressing the Irish and giving them a cause ), and Libya ( for training said terrorists ); he demands that the governments of the world send all citizens of those countries back to their countries, and that they quarantine those countries and let the plague run its course, so they will lose what he has lost ; if they do not, he has more plagues to release.

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.

When the plague and riots had subsided, Beebe returned to China to document the local pheasant species, then made a second visit to Japan to study pheasants kept in the Imperial Preserves there.

Her eldest son, Duarte, authored moral works and became king in 1433 ; Pedro, who travelled widely and had an interest in history, became regent when Duarte died of the plague in 1438 ; Fernando – Ferdinand the Saint Prince – who became a crusader, participated in the attack on Tangiers in 1437 ; and Henrique – Prince Henry the Navigator – became the master of the Order of Christ and the instigator and organiser of the early voyages of discovery.

In the Age of Apocalypse, Calvin Rankin was a prisoner and test subject of the time travelling Sugar Man, who had travelled back from Earth-616 in order to create a plague.

In 1920, d ' Herelle travelled to Indochina, pursuing studies of cholera and the plague, from where he returned at the end of the year.

1609 was another plague year during which the company travelled.

Shinkeibo ( 真敬坊 ) was a Japanese monk who travelled through Hobara during a plague and was able to treat the villagers, saving them from their sickness.

Among the tombstones are some who were victims of plague, and above the churchyard are the remains of a 14th century sanctuary chapel built by John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter to provide a refuge for felons who had accepted life banishment, as they travelled from Exeter to sail from Teignmouth.

Badi ' stayed seven years at Tabriz until it was conquered by Ottoman Sultan Selim I, at which point he travelled to Istanbul, where he died during the plague in 1517.

In some places, Camus makes the allegory explicit, as when he refers to the plague in terms that describe an enemy in war: " the epidemic was in retreat all along the line ; victory was won and the enemy was abandoning his positions.

In 1805 there was another new act, and in 1823 – 24 again an elaborate inquiry followed by an act making the quarantine only at discretion of the privy council, and at the same time recognizing yellow fever or other highly infectious disorder as calling for quarantine measures along with plague.

The Norwegians were closely connected to the greater European trade routes, along which the plague traveled ; consequently, they were infected and died at a far higher rate than Sami in the interior.

During the Great Northern War, plague stricken Tallinn along with Swedish Estonia and Livonia capitulated to Imperial Russia in 1710, but the local self-government institutions ( Magistracy of Reval and Chivalry of Estonia ) retained their cultural and economical autonomy within Imperial Russia as the Duchy of Estonia.

Though silk was certainly the major trade item from China, many other goods were traded, and various technologies, religions and philosophies, as well as the bubonic plague ( the " Black Death "), also traveled along the Silk Routes.

The result of this embassy, together with a plague which was breaking out among his troops as well as the threat of famine and news that the eastern emperor Marcian had launched an attack on the Hun homelands along the Danube, forced Attila to turn around and leave Italy.

Grouped together alongside Luchtainé the carpenter, Creidné the goldsmith and Dian Cecht the physician, in the Lebor Gabála Érenn, he is described as ‘ not impotent in smelting ,’ and is said to have died, along with Dian Cecht, of a ‘ painful plague ’.

Nine years after arriving in Ireland, Nemed died of plague along with three thousand of his people.

As the Europeans came closer in contact with the natives, along the coast of Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, they brought along with them diseases, such as small pox, plague, measles and other illnesses that depopulated entire villages, killing between 55 to 95 percent of coastal people.

The plague spread north along the Great Road that joined the two kingdoms, and the population of Minhiriath was decimated.

The lake's status as a byway for travelers allowed the plague to spread across these continents via medieval merchants who unknowingly carried infested vermin along with them.

The spread of parasites such as the nematode Echinuria uncinata could be extremely pathogenic, as well as the introduction of disease by migratory waterfowl along the Pacific Flyway ( such as avian influenza, avian malaria, cholera, botulism and duck plague ).

Yosef drew criticism from the US State Department in August 2010 following a Saturday morning sermon in which he called for " all the nasty people who hate Israel, like Abu Mazen ( Abbas ), vanish from our world ... May God strike them down with the plague along with all the nasty Palestinians who persecute Israel.

The 1990s saw healthy economic development, but the closing of state-owned enterprises and increasing levels of corruption and unemployment, along with environmental challenges continued to plague China, as the country saw the rise to materialism, crime, and new-age spiritual-religious movements such as Falun Gong.

In recent years, with the gentrification of North Williamsburg, Hasidim have fought to retain the character of their neighborhood and have characterized the influx of what they call the artisten as a " plague " and “ a bitter decree from Heaven .” Tensions have risen over housing costs, loud and boisterous nightlife events, and the introduction of bike lanes along the Hasidic part of Bedford Avenue.

His wife, Eleanor of Toledo, died in 1562, along with four of his children due to a plague epidemic in Florence.

He learns that Lucia is now languishing at the lazzaretto, along with 16, 000 other victims of the plague.

In 1331 the plague was noted in China, and from east Asia it was carried west along the trade routes by merchants and Mongol soldiers who were able to so freely and quickly travel across the continent during the Pax Mongolica.

Ammianus Marcellinus reports that the plague spread to Gaul and the legions along the Rhine.

Malekith, along with Morathi and their followers, used their magic to transform the great northern cities into the huge floating ' Black Arks ', which are mobile fortresses created to plague the oceans of the Warhammer World.

As the plague struck Vernham Dean a rector persuaded his parishioners to isolate themselves at the top of the hill along which Chute Causeway runs.

Maritime quarantine legislation ( Act of August 1, 1888 ) strengthened the Act of 1878, adding new Federal quarantine stations along the East and West coasts ; March 1891 legislation made medical inspection of immigrants part of MHS's duties ; and interstate quarantine legislation ( Act of March 27, 1890 ) gave MHS authority to establish quarantines against epidemic cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, and plague.

The siege collapsed as plague broke out in the French camp, killing most of the army along with Foix and Navarro.