But there's another resource-draining plague afflicting these countries, one hiding in plain sight: smoking.
Only one state, South Dakota, remains plague-free, and it contains about a third of the remaining black-tailed prairie-dog population.
Of course, my hope, beyond taking care of my injuries, is that one day soon, the major diseases that plague humanity will be eradicated.
Suspicions are that the dig has revealed a "plague pit" -- one of many mass graves used to dispose of the bodies of those who succumbed to the Black Death, or bubonic plague, in the 14th century.
AIDS. In total, over 120 of the 864 students have lost one or both parents to this latter-day plague.
When we think of the problems that plague the globe, arsenic poisoning is not one that springs readily to mind.
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No matter how that election turned out, no one expected it to magically fix the economic problems that plague us.
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In the words of one European diplomat in Ankara, the choice facing Italy is between cholera and the plague.
One other report from old London is Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year, " a fictional, though chillingly persuasive, account of the metropolis under siege from the Great Plague in 1665.
Authorities were eager to move the case into one of those courts, which are designed to avoid the delays, incompetence and corruption that plague much of India's legal system.
One study even suggested that people whose mother and father were both descended from ancestors who survived the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century appeared to be immune to HIV.
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