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• Amazon Sales Rank: #26792 in VHS
• Released on: 2002-12-03
• Rating: Unrated
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English

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Its Mysterious Link To HIV Immunity In Today's Population
"Secrets of the Dead: Mystery of the Black Death
PBS Home Video
Running Time: Approx. 60 Minutes, Color, CC.
Producer Director Emma Whitlock
Narrator Liev Schreiber
Series Producer Jared Lipworth
Executive Producer, Tigress Justine Keershaw
Executive In Charge William R. Grant
Executive Producer Beth Hoppe

In September 1665, a tailor in the peaceful English village of Eyam opened a shipment of fabric from London.
Unfurling the flea-ridden cloth, he unleashed a strain of one of the world's deadliest diseases.
In a matter of days, much---but not all---of the village was suffering from the tell-tale signs of bubonic plague, the disease that had, over the course of 400 years, already wiped out more than half the European population.

Three hundred and fifty years later, geneticist Stephen O'Brien delves into the reasons why some individuals managed to survive the excruciating Black Death while others were dying all around them.
MYSTERY OF THE BLACK DEATH paints a grim portrait of life at the height of an epidemic, and follows O'Brien as he uses historical records, family archives, and modern genetics to conduct a case study that uncovers previously unknown elements of the scourge---and ITS MYSTERIOUS LINK TO HIV IMMUNITY IN TODAY'S POPULATION."
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But, the VHS is playable with Multisystem VHS Players and Televisions in the world too...!
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Incredible Revelation
"Mystery of the Black Death" seeks to discover why some people died and others didn't during the plague that swept across Europe during the Middle Ages. The Black Death was lethal enough to wipe out 25 million Europeans - roughly one third of the population - yet some exposed to the pestilence lived to tell the tale. Why?

The show tracks the answer in the English town of Eyam. When the plague came to the town in 1665, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves, in the hope of stopping the disease from spreading. A year later, roughly half the town had survived. How did this happen?

The show explores the possibility that certain townspeople had a genetic mutation called "delta 32" - a mutation which prevents the disease from entering human cells. The results are amazing - and the possible link between their immunity to the Black Death and their descendents' immunity to the modern-day epidemic of AIDS is equally remarkable.

This show is not to be missed. Excellent! Five stars.