Grey's Anatomy Season premiere question?

Question

What is the plague they were talking about that the patients had given to two of the doctors

Answer 1

Bubonic plague is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease plague, which is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis
Plague has affected human society for millennia. Numerous scientists believe that it was responsible for the Black Death, which killed perhaps a third of Europe's population during the Middle Ages, with additional large numbers of casualties in Asia and the Middle East.

Plague is endemic in many countries in Africa, in the former Soviet Union, the Americas and Asia. In 2003, nine countries reported 2,118 cases to the WHO (World Health Organization), of which 182 ended in death. All were isolated cases, except for an outbreak in a village in Algeria (the first in fifty years), which caused eleven infections and one death. Plague is most common in Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These two countries have on average 600 to 800 cases each year. They accounted for 2,025 of the 2,118 cases and 177 of the 182 deaths in 2003. Other countries with annual but many fewer cases are Tanzania, Peru, United States, China, Mongolia and Vietnam. According to the WHO, the actual number of cases in the world is probably much higher than reported, due to the reluctance of certain countries to declare cases, the lack of diagnosis because the clinical picture of cases is not very specific, and the absence of laboratory confirmation

The most recent outbreak of plague happened in Zobia, in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in December 2004. The outbreak, which only appeared as the variant pneumonic plague, began among workers in a diamond mine. By mid-March 2005, when the WHO regarded the outbreak as over, 130 people had been infected, of whom 97 died. [1]

There has not been a plague epidemic (i.e an outbreak affecting a larger area) for many years.

To read more go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague

Answer 2

They never actually said what plague, but I took it as the bubonic plague, it's symptoms were similar to the flu, and they were having a flu outbreak also during the premiere.

Answer 3

It wasn't really a plague but the Flu that held the two doctors under quarantine in the interns' locker room.

Answer 4

George and Derek helped a a husband & wife with very weird symptoms. Wife died, husband quaranteened. George & Derek were held in the lockeroom. Bailey stayed with the husband, outside his room and calmed him down. Izzy stayed on the bathroom floor and finally talked to her friends.

Answer 5

Bubonic plague.

Answer 6

I don't think they said exactly what it was --they just referred to it as "the plague".

Answer 7

I watched everything but the last two minutes (darn DVR)! What happened to Arizona???

Answer 8

a couple (husband and wife) came into the hospital after an accident. they helped somebody (i think) and they were exposed to the plaque.

Answer 9

the bublonic plague, it is also called the black plague, or the black death and it is normally associated with rats which carry it.

Answer 10

they never actually named the plague