White Plague

White plague can refer to:

  • The British colonization of non-Caucasian parts of the world.
  • Any epidemic disease that makes the patients appear pale, especially tuberculosis during the 19th and early 20th century.
  • The White Plague, a 1982 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert featuring a bioengineered plague that kills females.
  • The White Disease (Czech:Bílá nemoc), a 1937 play by Karel Capek.
  • In microelectronics, a white gold-aluminium intermetallic compound that degrades wire bonding between gold and aluminum
  • A disease caused by Aurantimonas coralicida bacteria, affecting and killing corals during summer.
  • The sub-replacement fertility phenomenon, the decline in some nations of birthrates.

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or plague:

    “... the great white city of brotherhood, Washington ...”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    “The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
    Make instruments to plague us.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)