Sentence examples for plague attack from inspiring English sources

It simulated a radiological attack on Seattle and a pneumonic plague attack on Chicago.

They are much more interested in dealing with the three particular strains of influenza that are in the dish this year than they are in thinking about a plague attack in 2018".

Treatment the first day of symptoms is generally considered necessary to prevent death in pneumonic plague, so early recognition of an aerosol plague attack would enable life-saving use of antibiotics in febrile patients and prophylaxis of contacts (28 ).

In the incident described here, the Venetian authorities in the 17th century adopted a plan for a massive plague attack in Crete to save their possession from Ottoman forces.

Because an outbreak that occurred only in the Ottoman camp around the city of Candia would be suspicious, Foscolo proposed an alternative "perfect plan"—a massive plague attack against all the Ottoman camps in different places of the island, which would look like a real epidemic of large scale.

Transmitted to humans by fleas from infected rodents, the plague attacks the glands and early manifests itself by swellings (buboes) in the armpits and the groin, whence the name bubonic.

Pneumonic plague, which attacks the lungs, is closely related to bubonic plague, which killed scores of millions worldwide in the 1300s.

Lapp, along with the deer-farming industry as a whole, is facing a crisis in the form of chronic wasting disease, a plague that attacks white-tailed deer, elk, moose, reindeer, and other members of the cervid family.

To this day, historians argue over the mystery of the vanished Viking colonies -- whether they fell victim to plague, famine, attacks by Inuit or English pirates, or, most likely, were caught in a mini-ice age that cut off supply ships from Iceland, and destroyed Greenland's dairy economy.

The Internet is sustaining a growing plague of attacks that overwhelm Web sites by flooding them with data, and an Internet security expert is warning Microsoft that the planned consumer rollout of its Windows XP operating system for personal computers could make the global network even more vulnerable.

The plague mostly attacks prairie dogs but claims the occasional human as well.