Timewatch
Season 23 Episode 8 - The Mystery of the Black Death
6.9 ?
1982
Documentary
Could the Black Death - killer of up to half of Europe in the 14th century - be lying dormant, ready to strike again? New evidence refutes received opinion that the cause was bubonic plague spread by rats, but was actually a deadly virus that emerged from animals and then vanished again. 3/6.
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