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Illustration of corpse collection during the 1665 plague. In 1945, the syndicated radio programme The Weird Circle adapted the novel into a condensed 30-minute drama.; The 1979 Mexican film El Año de la Peste (The Year of the Plague), directed by Mexican director Felipe Cazals from a screenplay written by Gabriel García Márquez, was based on A Journal of the Plague Year.
Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 inhabitants to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [178] Cairo suffered more than fifty plague epidemics within 150 years from the plague's first appearance, with the final outbreak of the second pandemic there in the 1840s. [115]
Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850. [56] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [57]
El Año de la Peste (English: The Year of the Plague) is a Mexican film categorized as drama, thriller and sci-fi. [1] It was filmed in 1978 and released in 1979. The production counted with the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for the adapted screenplay from the novel of Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year published in March 1722.
The Great Plague killed an estimated 100,000 people—almost a quarter of London's population—in 18 months. [2] [3] The plague was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, [4] which is usually transmitted to a human by the bite of a flea or louse. [5] The 1665–66 epidemic was on a much smaller scale than the earlier Black Death pandemic. It ...
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus. ... He is a seventy-five-year-old Spaniard with a rugged face, who comments on events in Oran ...
The book is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright. Based on a long-form article in the magazine, which took up most of the January 4, 2021, print issue, [2] the book guides readers through the tragic year of 2020 that America spent fighting against the COVID-19 pandemes.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says an average of seven cases are reported in the country each year, ... Over 80% of plague cases in the U.S. have been the bubonic form ...