Sentence examples for attack of plague from inspiring English sources
Another catastrophic attack of plague massacred the people of Palermo in Sicily in the 1620s, and this outbreak is chronicled in a new exhibition, Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague, 1624-5, at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Thucydides survived an attack of the plague and left a vivid account of its impact on Athenian morale.
His second volume featured a vivid account of the several weeks he spent in a Pest Hospital, where he suffered an attack of the plague, and his remaining time in quarantine in Constantinople.
No summary of the quiet but ominous last years of Justinian's reign would be complete without some notice of the continuing attacks of bubonic plague and the impact that they were to continue to produce until the 8th century.
Plague, a disease of rodents transmitted by flea bites, is dangerous to humans only when heavy mortality among domestic rats forces their infected fleas to attack people, thereby causing an outbreak of plague.
During the siege of Caffa, a Genoese possession in Crimea (now Feodosia, Ukraine), the attacking Mongol forces experienced an epidemic of plague (6 – 8 ).
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However, it is unlikely that the attack had a decisive role in the spread of plague to Europe.
The city then suffered an outbreak of plague in 1348 and a devastating attack by Timur in 1400.
Beginning in the 1930s, sulfa drugs and then antibiotics such as streptomycin gave doctors a very effective means of attacking the plague bacillus directly.
A21 Preparing for Bioterror A consortium of medical institutions in New York State set up a center to support regional public health agencies in their response to attacks of anthrax, smallpox, plague and other biological weapons.
