Famine sells diet foods and invents nouvelle cuisine; Pestilence spreads pollution; War is a glamorous global reporter stirring up trouble.
Dr. Frank Romer, a Roman historian at Arizona, noted accounts of pestilence spreading through the countryside at this time and causing "sweats and chills," symptoms typical of malaria.
Epidemiology, vintage 1666: a second "calling" The rector's saintly wife plots the death toll on a map of the village "to grasp how this pestilence spreads, and to whom".
She argues, for example, that the damage done to Hamburg and France by mercenaries and an increasingly commercial culture is far greater than the damage caused by the violence of the French revolution, writing that "the sword has been merciful, compared with the depredations made on human life by contractors, and by the swarm of locusts who have battened on the pestilence they spread abroad".
'Cue', for instance, seems to be about a bacterial plague carried by the 'flugleman' of the song's subtitle, a viral pestilence that spreads 'through the dormant wards and nurseries... in the lung-smeared slides and corridors'.
A snaking line of puzzled parents was swiftly processed by teachers and administrative staff who dispensed Earl Grey tea and chocolate biscuits along with antiviral drugs... "While outside the gates ‑ banned from entering the school lest they spread pestilence further ‑ their children laughed and celebrated a glorious new holiday: the great swine skive".
HIS GREATEST transgression may not have been spreading pestilence or colonialism across the Caribbean, but rather initiating the global spread of chocolate.
It is as if we are being visited by the horsemen of the apocalypse with war, famine, natural disaster — and, yes, even pestilence — as Zika spreads, aided by political controversy and paralysis.... ....
One of them is Eyam Hall in the "Plague Village" where in 1665 the villagers decided to stay and die, one by one, rather than spread the pestilence throughout the county.
