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The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by American writer Jack London, originally published in The London Magazine in 1912. The book was noted in 2020 as having been very similar to the COVID-19 pandemic , especially given London wrote it at a time when the world was not as quickly connected by travel as it is today.
Jack London's novella The Scarlet Plague (1912) was inspired in part by Poe's story. [1] In the book, much of humanity has been wiped out by a disease sometimes referred to as "Red Death". Stephen King's novel The Shining contains several allusions to the story. For example, the line "and the red death held sway over all" seems to reference the ...
Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis; formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillus bacterium without spores that is related to both Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, the pathogen from which Y. pestis evolved [1] [2] and responsible for the Far East scarlet-like fever.
The term plague cross can refer to either a mark placed on a building occupied by victims of plague; or a permanent structure erected, to enable plague sufferers to trade while minimising the risk of contagion. A wide variety of plague cross existed in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, until the plague largely disappeared by the eighteenth century.
Red plague can refer to the following diseases: Smallpox; Erysipelas; Vibriosis, a systemic bacterial infection of marine and estuarine fishes, caused by the Vibrio genus. Also known as red pest, red boil, or saltwater furunculosis. It can also have the following meanings: Red plague (corrosion), the corrosion of silver-plated copper
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Miss Scarlet and The Duke will be back on the case in the new year: Season 4 of the British drama is slated to premiere Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, at 8/7c on Masterpiece on PBS. It will be followed by ...
If this is correct, the eastern Mediterranean world may have been familiar with bubonic plague at that early date. [16] [17] In the second century, the Antonine Plague, named after Marcus Aurelius’ family name of Antoninus and also known as the Plague of Galen, who had first hand knowledge of the disease, may in fact have been smallpox.