![]() ![]() ![]() Rieux and an elderly colleague named Castel suspect Oran has become the victim of an outbreak of bubonic plague. Not long after the concierge succumbs to the ravages of the affliction, doctors all over town are flooded with patients experiencing similar symptoms. Rieux treats the concierge where he lives, who is complaining of an unusual fever. The sight of Oran littered with the carcasses of rats stimulates panic among the citizens and forces the government to order a special force tasked with cremating the rodents.Īs the rat carcass problem is contained, Dr. ![]() Before too long, thousands of the creatures are making their way to the streets to die. Bernard Rieux is the first to intuit that things are not right with the city when he notices a sudden spike in the number of dead rats around town. It is the 1940s in Oran, a French-occupied Algerian colony. ![]()
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