Examples of plague in the following topics:
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- From 541 to 750 C.E.., an outbreak of what was likely a bubonic plague (the Plague of Justinian), eliminated one-quarter to one-half of the human population in the eastern Mediterranean region.
- The bubonic plague would strike Europe more than once.
- Bubonic plague struck London hard again in the mid-1600s .
- Although contracting bubonic plague before antibiotics meant almost certain death, the bacterium responds to several types of modern antibiotics; mortality rates from plague are now very low.
- Such was the case with bubonic plague.
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- In the fourteenth century, the bubonic plague killed as many as 100 million people: between 30 to 60 percent of Europe's population.
- Today, however, the plague and other infectious diseases have much less of an impact.
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- Late blight continues to plague potato crops in certain parts of the United States and Russia, wiping out as much as 70 percent of crops when no pesticides are applied.
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- Debilitating mental disorders plague approximately 12.5 million Americans (about 1 in 17 people) at an annual cost of more than $300 billion.