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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.
The plague is a virus possibly created by the Collectors which infects all species except humans and vorcha, the latter being resistant to any infection, and the former being immediately scapegoated for the spread of the plague and hunted down by local gangs. It results in horrible sores and a bad cough bringing up blood, caused by rapid ...
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 ...
The United States enlists the help of other Western powers and amasses an invasion force on China's borders. America then launches a biological warfare campaign against China, resulting in the total destruction of China's population, with the few survivors of the plague being killed out of hand by European and American troops. Some German ...
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.
A medieval "Mask of Shame", or scold's bridle. A badge of shame, also a symbol of shame, a mark of shame or a stigma, [1] is typically a distinctive symbol required to be worn by a specific group or an individual for the purpose of public humiliation, ostracism or persecution.
The English word for the biblical "scarlet" (Exodus 25:4, etc.) is a literal translation from the Septuagint (Koinē Greek: κόκκινον = kókkinon, meaning "scarlet"). The original Hebrew text ( tola'at shani ) translates to "scarlet worm", indicating that the scarlet color is derived from an insect, a requirement which was formalized in ...
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.