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A pestilence is any virulent and highly infectious disease
Infectious disease

An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, Mycosis, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions....
 that can cause an epidemic
Epidemic

In epidemiology, an infection that is epidemic appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is "expected," based on recent experience ....
 or even a pandemic
Pandemic

A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide....
. The word can also be used about parasites causing large scale sickness and death, such as Guinea worm.

Originally the word referred to the bubonic plague
Bubonic plague

Plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the Enterobacteriaceae Yersinia pestis . Plague is a zoonotic, primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas....
, which is called pestis in Latin.

It can also refer to:

In music






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A pestilence is any virulent and highly infectious disease
Infectious disease

An infectious disease is a clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, Mycosis, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions....
 that can cause an epidemic
Epidemic

In epidemiology, an infection that is epidemic appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is "expected," based on recent experience ....
 or even a pandemic
Pandemic

A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide....
. The word can also be used about parasites causing large scale sickness and death, such as Guinea worm.

Originally the word referred to the bubonic plague
Bubonic plague

Plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the Enterobacteriaceae Yersinia pestis . Plague is a zoonotic, primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas....
, which is called pestis in Latin.

It can also refer to:

In music
  • Pestilence (band)
    Pestilence (band)

    Pestilence is a death metal band from the Netherlands founded in 1986. Later they incorporated more jazz and jazz fusion elements into their music....
    , a Dutch death metal band
  • "Ride the Wings of Pestilence
    Ride the Wings of Pestilence

    "Ride the Wings of Pestilence" is the first single from From First to Last's debut album Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count....
    ", a song by From First to Last
"Pestilence", a song by The Faceless

In comics
  • Pestilence (comics)
    Pestilence (comics)

    Pestilence is a comic book supervillain who has battled the Canada super-team Alpha Flight. The character Pestilence is a literary version of the real life Francis Crozier, who was second in command in Franklin's lost expedition to the Northwest Passage and later disappeared after taking command of the expedition from the deceased Franklin....
    , a Marvel Comics supervillain character in Alpha Flight
  • Pestilence (DC Comics), a DC Comics character from 52


In other
  • World of Warcraft
    World of Warcraft

    World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game . It is Blizzard Entertainment's fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994 in video gaming....
    ,The class death knight gets a skill called Pestilence that spreads diseases among units around the unit it was used on.