The Plague

'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.' It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.

,,In dimineata zilei de 16 aprilie, doctorul Rieux a iesit din cabinetul sau de consultatii si a dat peste un sobolan mort in mijlocul palierului." Incepe cu sobolanii. Varsand sange, mor cu sutele, apoi cu miile.