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A pestilence is any virulent and highly infectious disease that can cause an epidemic or even a pandemic. 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, which is called pestis in Latin.

It can also refer to:

In religion

• Pestilence, one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in some interpretations of the book of Revelation.

In music

• Pestilence (band), a Dutch death metal band
• "Pestilence", a song by Kreator
• "Ride the Wings of Pestilence", a song by From First to Last
• "Pestilence", a song by The Faceless
• "He Who Breeds Pestilence", a song by Behemoth

In comics

• Pestilence (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain, based on the biblical horseman

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