pestilence

That makes me semi-immune to Zynga-type pestilence but makes it hard to find fun thing to play.

"We guarantee that we will operate this service for the next 1000 years, regardless of global warming, pestilence, famine and war?

Especially in times before modern medicine, with wars, plagues, pestilence.

We've forgotten what a true pestilence like polio does because vaccination programs have all but eradicated it.

In every deed, pestilence and famine and wars have to be regarded as a remedy for nations as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.

But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands.

Just as a microbe might feel proud of spreading a pestilence, so the pessimistic mouse might exult to think that he was renewing in the cat the torture of conscious existence.

I imagine a physician in the dark ages "treating" people suffering from acute pestilence would say there are more pressing concerns than research into invisible microbes.

While this is an awesome development in a preventive approach, the best reactive approach to those purveyors of pestilence remains the mosquito bat[1] - for disease prevention and fun!

As a great admirer of this period in American history, I have to conclude war and pestilence have always been around and are more symptomatic of the human race than of some particular span of time.

This democratical hurricane, inundation, earthquake, pestilence, call it which you will, at last aroused and alarmed all the world, and produced a combination unexampled, to prevent its further progress.

Livestock are a haven for pollution and pestilence, most recently implicated in producing antibiotic-resistant superbugs that will probably be the death of us all.

Confinement \n at high stocking density requires the use of antibiotics \n and pesticides to mitigate the spread of disease and \n pestilence exacerbated by these crowded living \n conditions.

What was the deal with "the blight"?At one point, they mentioned it had to do with the ability to fix nitrogen?Also, wouldn't any pestilence as widespread as that be transported on the cargo ships with the people and their plants to the new planet?