The plague afflicts many countries of Africa and is starting to sweep through Asia.
Plague, a bacterial disease that causes high fever and either inflammation of the lymph nodes (bubonic plague) or a severe lung infection (pneumonic plague), afflicts some 10 to 15 people a year in this country, mostly in rural areas of the Southwest and Far West.
But to the people of Norfolk, who have endured five fatal police shootings so far this year, what happened to Meat-Meat that evening is a symptom of a plague afflicting their city of 250,000.
Divine punishment in the form of 10 plagues afflicted the Egyptians as the Pharaoh refused the entreaties of Moses and Aaron to let their people go.
Have you ever been puzzled or troubled by the biblical account attributing the first six plagues afflicted on the Egyptians to Pharaoh's hardening of his heart but then the final four plagues to the fact that God hardened Pharaoh's heart?
After these explorations, two plagues afflicted coastal New England in 1614 and 1617.
John Campbell ("Nigeria: The morning after," Views, May 3) highlights the difficulties facing newly elected President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria to unite the Christian South and Muslim North but he fails to address one of the major plagues afflicting the country: corruption.
I faked letters, I summoned a horrible plague that afflicted all the residents of our block, every one of our acquaintances possessed some satanic trait, and they all plotted against us.
* * * A plague of ennui afflicted London's manic prophets.
Still, every temporal satisfaction was undermined, afflicted, plagued.
The AIDS virus is a plague that now afflicts one in five adults in South Africa.
