The word Plague has several different meanings.

• For information on plagues in general, see disease, infectious disease, pandemic and epidemic.

• For general discussion of the disease known as plague, see bubonic plague and yersinia pestis.

• For the Biblical plagues, see Ten plagues.

• For the specific outbreak of plague in the Middle East during the sixth century see Plague of Justinian.

• For the specific outbreak of plague in Europe during the fourteenth century, see Black Death.

• For the specific outbreak of plague in London in the 1660s, see Great Plague.

• For the specific outbreak of plague in Asia during the late nineteenth century, see Third Pandemic.