
Timewatch
The Mystery of the Black Death
TV-PG
S23 • E8 Oct 15, 2004 50mCould 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.