Sentence examples for considered a plague from inspiring English sources

Deaths in childbirth, long considered a plague here, account for the fatalities of about 130,000 Indian women a year.

In many areas, it is so common that it is considered a plague species.

For example, domesticated brown rats are not considered a plague threat, while exposure to wild rat populations could introduce pathogens like Salmonella into the home.

Generally, Oryzomys couesi is common and of no conservation concern, and it is even considered a plague species in places, but some populations are threatened.

Several spurge species are at least somewhat invasive, and E. esula (leafy spurge) is considered a major plague, especially in the West.

Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is considered a facultative intracellular pathogen during its early stage of infection.

Plague was considered a disease of the hot summer "miasmatic" months and was not believed to appear during the winter.

The vast majority of the people who consider homosexuality a plague or responsible for floods, are hardly friends of science.

While New Yorkers are of two minds about the fairs -- some love them, others consider them a plague -- they are certainly a fixture of city life and a source of income for vendors, for the nonprofit groups that sponsor the events, for the city and for the handful of professional organizers that put fairs together.

It is used as a reddish brown cloth dye and was once considered a cure for epilepsy and the plague.

While plague is frequently considered a disease of the past, several thousand new cases are reported each year, predominantly in Africa [ 57].