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:

    “He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “You taught me language, and my profit on’t
    Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
    For learning me your language!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)