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:

    “Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we—the white race—have become the yellow man’s burden. Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    “A plague o’ both your houses.
    They have made worms’ meat of me.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)