Bubonic plague Quote by Jennifer Wright

“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The…

— Nancy Farmer

“On average, every year, thirty-five people in the United States die of the plague; close to two thousand worldwide. But those are hardly frightening…

— Jacqueline Druga

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95…

— Margaret Atwood

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

— Giovanni Trapattoni

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

— Jeri Ryan

“No comparable mortality had been experienced since the bubonic plague nearly five hundred years before, and modern medical science stood impotent before the pestilence.”

— Joseph E. Persico

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and…

— Alan Huffman

“In the countryside, an outbreak of plague usually lasted about six months and then faded away. In cities and other places where people lived…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Bubonic plague is 'natural,' I snapped back. Doesn't mean it's good for you.”

— Rosamund Lupton

“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World. Between the…

— Albert Marrin

“Ebola is a zoonosis. So is bubonic plague. So was the so-called Spanish influenza of 1918–1919, which had its ultimate source in a wild…

— David Quammen

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash…

— Albert Camus