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Mystery of the Black Death

Secrets of the Dead

Run Time: 56 mins

Air Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002

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PBS

Season 3 - Episode 2

Mystery of the Black Death

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In 1665, a British tailor opened a flea-infested shipment of fabric from London. In a matter of days, the tailor and much of the village were suffering the telltale signs of bubonic plague, the disease that wiped out a third of the European population. 350 years later, an American geneticist is delving into the reasons why some managed to survive the Black Death while others were not so lucky.

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