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:

    “A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.”
    —Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)

    “Love is sinister,
    is mean to us in separation;
    makes our thin bodies thinner.
    This fellow Death
    lacks mercy
    and is good at counting our days.
    And Master,
    you, too, are subject
    to the plague of jealousy
    so think:
    how could womenfolk,
    soft as sprouts,
    live like this?”
    —Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)