The Mystery Of The Village That Beat The Black Death | Riddle Of The Plague Survivors | Chronicle

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The Black Death’s reign of terror lasted for more than 400 years. By culling up to 50% of the population of Europe, the Great Plague guaranteed its place in the history books. Yet while accounts of the Black Death have focused graphically on those who died, the stories of those who survived have gone untold. Until now.
The Riddle of the Plague Survivors focuses on those who walked away unaffected. Could this village be the first example of quarantining to avoid disease? How could anyone survive in the face of what is described as one of the most pathogenic bacterial agents known to humankind? This 60-minute documentary traces the work of American geneticist Steven O’Brien as he follows his hunch that genes are at the heart of this mystery.
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@ChronicleMedieval 2 года назад

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@starstairs5715 Год назад

My Ancestors survived all pestilence and more even now and today it's Dr fulici and Biden Kamila an friends who are in with CCP commie Chinese biological weapons used against humanity THIERS no cure no vaccine that can save lives it is about the faith in the Almighty Lord God Jesus Christ an staying away from large crowds it's not cat's to blame it's humans and ignorant stupid actions motives I really have no regrets or remorse for if people are insensitive I don't care about what you say for your no better than pestilence and ignorant cowardly Karen fools that makes things worse masks don't work any biological weapon used is unavoidable or cure none exist the Black DEATH an white DEATH are similar but Different fleas had bacteria that is leathal a curse can't say caronavirous is natural for it is not it's hand made by man woman that made such evil murdering weapon

@Aengus42 Год назад

FFS stop repeating what we already know after each ad break! It renders 50% of this video superfluous! It's so bloody annoying!

@samwamm85 11 месяцев назад

For some reason every member of my local family which is over 1000 people all have the gene that prevents AIDS (delta32?) however they don't have in their inherited DNA. Our ancestry is not from a country that has ever experienced AIDS or black death. What's stranger is that unrelated people we're close to somehow also have it.

@giovanna722 10 месяцев назад

@@Aengus42That and the soporific cadence put me to sleep, unfortunately.

@shewolfee4247 10 месяцев назад

@@samwamm85what's the blood type?

@wannacashmeoutside 4 месяца назад

My gosh…the woman buried 6 of her children and her husband in the span of a single week. I just can’t imagine her grief.

@breakablehandlewithcare 3 месяца назад

She must have been living in a heavy trauma shock , dragging herself forward like a robot...

@thesandwich5321 3 месяца назад

Especially in an age where widows were looked at as "damaged goods" and rarely well supported by the community. I hope she found love in her life again....

@breakablehandlewithcare 3 месяца назад

@@thesandwich5321 and probably not able to make a decent living as a woman alone

@abdulsijad2419 2 месяца назад

she was not traumatised infact it was quite the opposite she was very happy cus now she was free and could go partying and to the local nightclub

@hannahdyson7129 2 месяца назад

@@thesandwich5321Widows/ widowers are seen as tragic figures in English novels . Its seen as a nice outcome if they remarry

@goregmvs8304 7 месяцев назад

One of my great grandma's was born in Eyam in 1649 and survived the Bubonic Plague and died in 1704. She was only 16/17 when the plague hit Eyam. Her name was Martha Furness.

@laweratejana267 Месяц назад

So your grandmother would have been born around 1669-1679? Your moms at late 1600 or early 1700? Are you a vampire? Did you maybe mean your, great, great, great, great, great great, great grandmother?? Your like an 7th 8th generation experience survivor of plagues?

@JackRowsey 26 дней назад

It doesn’t sound like the plague came to America. I am mostly of Brit descent but I have ancestors who were in both America and Britain in the 1600s. Looking at what our ancestors went through, it’s amazing how any of us are still here. Survival of the fittest?

@KiaSoulEV-rt4sg 9 дней назад

@@JackRowsey seems more like survival of the luckiest when it comes to infectious diseases.

@Roberob1189 4 дня назад

@@JackRowseyhow do you guys know that’s in detail about you ancestry. I’m an American that is Irish welsh decent. I only know that my great grandparents came out of a Liverpool port and came to Ellis island in 1899 to 1906.

@K9Kadette 10 месяцев назад

Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany at the northern base of the Alps, was another small village that managed to escape the Black Death. In 1633, the villagers expressed their gratitude by promising to present a Passion Play every 10 years depicting the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. That play is still being presented.

@mchapman6835 10 месяцев назад

Visited there, unfortunately not in a year it was performed. You can understand their thanking God for their deliverance in those times.

@noimnotarobotcanubeleiveit7024 10 месяцев назад

breed the 2 villages together? superimmune. oh wait eugenics bad cos muh nasties

@fionasteinbrecht60 10 месяцев назад

I live near Oberammegau and have seen the Passion Play, it's amazing with a choir and fab costumes and sets on an outdoor covered stage. Also, when we bike we sometimes come across Plague cemeteries in Bavaria . 🍻🥨

@K9Kadette 10 месяцев назад

@@fionasteinbrecht60 I saw the Passion Play in 1970. What an amazing experience!

@davidohara7669 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, that always works.

@jenevastorme 7 месяцев назад

Wow, I saw this on tv 20 years ago. Never thought I'd see it again and here it is.

@shanecrump7932 3 месяца назад

Magic of the internet. I’m in the states so it’s like a brand new show (with dated information) to me 😊

@dfaro8453 Месяц назад

@@shanecrump7932me too. I am in Florida. I love these type of documentaries. It make me feel good to learn something new about history.

@ericaceous1652 Месяц назад

I did wonder, looking at the cars and that 😄 early 2000s vibe

@talex1625 Год назад

How incredibly sad that Elizabeth didn't pass Delta 32 to any of her six children. I cannot, just cannot, imagine digging graves for my husband and six children. I think the grief of it would have killed me too.

@montananerd8244 Год назад

They did have different expectations from life, but there are stories throughout history of mothers completely undone by grief. I suppose I want to believe it didn't tear at their souls, reading my genealogy, I can see up close how common it was, until 1900 really, for violence, infection & epidemic to take 50%+ of the children

@cheryljoseph787 Год назад

She knew what she was doing.

@glencora6340 Год назад

They probably had one gene, but being children were more susceptible to the bacterium and could not mount a strong enough defense in time.

@ladydreadqs639 Год назад

I first heard about "Delta 32" gene in a "Secrets of the Dead" "mysteries of the Black Death" episode many years ago long before the internet was available, this series was by far the best Historical documentaries I've ever seen.

@Equinox1.5 Год назад

@@glencora6340 Good point. I think they must have had one gene. If Elizabeth had two Delta 32 genes, then she must have passed one on to her kids. She had no 'non-Delta 32' genes to pass on.

@fioname3495 Год назад

I’m a direct descendant of the Ragge family from Eyam. We weren’t able to find the graves as we believe the headstones were used in building works. We lost 5 family members during the plague and I have the gene, that other descendants have from the village. We have done our family tree which, via my Grandmother’s family, shows a direct lineage.

@Thenoobestgirl Год назад

Do you have 2 copies of it?

@fioname3495 Год назад

@@Thenoobestgirl Of what ? The family tree paperwork ? 🙂

@tabithascriven9441 Год назад

No the gene

@fioname3495 Год назад

@@tabithascriven9441 yes - was tested about 7 yrs ago - found out when I was involved in a medical trial for a new injection for the flu. Never really caught colds or had adverse reactions to vaccinations (typhoid, cholera etc) Didn’t catch COVID either, although I was exposed many times - close contact via plane and work and family members.

@bernabex2 Год назад

@@fioname3495 recent studies show that people with your gene mutation are much more likely to get infected with the winter common cold, influenza, and develop much more worse symptoms, and in severe cases, die much more easier than people with your so self-proclaimed gene mutation... so what you are saying doesnt really make much sense, in influenza, CCR5 plays a role in directing CD8+ T cells to the site of infection its absence is associated with increased mortality rates, what would you choose; immunity to HIV or increased resistances to the common winter cold?

@mestillme3026 10 месяцев назад

Drinking the bacon fat may very well have helped her, at least a little bit, in fighting off the plague. Malnourishment and dysentery were common ailments that came with being sick, but were nearly impossible to stave off in those times. People were too sick to keep anything down and they didn't have IVs to force the calories and hydration into them. Drinking that much high caloric fat may have very well given her the energy her body needed to help fight off the illness.

@johnlennox-pe2nq 10 месяцев назад

bacon fat would be solid, not drinkable; maybe a fatty broth

@benjamintherogue2421 10 месяцев назад

@@johnlennox-pe2nq It can be liquid, if it's warm enough.

@kristinedoty7876 10 месяцев назад

I always thought that too. In a reenactment, the pitcher was sitting near the kitchen hearth.

@wendyshoowaiching4161 10 месяцев назад

You can't fight Rat's Fleas plague. I have seen a man die because his home have rats that carried the disease. He catched the rats that happen its fleas bite him. His bed were next to my dad who happen to be sick of other health issues (kidney failure hospitalisation). The disease went straight to his brain and within a week, he died. No amount of medicines can save him. His son told me he killed home rats, after that he was extremely sick , leading to my belief that the fleas bite him. I told him the disease will enter his brain and that he will die. His son doesn't believe me. I gave him my number if he need any help I can do for his father. He called me after a week, his father didn't make it and passed away. He should admit his father to the specialists hospital very2 fast the first day without wasting time instead of a government general hospital that can't handle plague diseases. Too late.

@ramonbmovies 10 месяцев назад

I wondered that too.

@Moodboard39 4 месяца назад

Best documentary. Straight to the point , well research .creepy suspense music . Not much dramatic sound effect or music. And a good narrator ! Thsts how you make documentary!!!

@sjohnson65456 2 месяца назад

The comment above yours says they saw it 20 years ago. That's why it's well done. 🎉

@MeetFrizzie Год назад

What blows my mind more than anything is the fact that these people have been living in the same town for hundreds of years

@thepotatoincident3593 Год назад

still fairly common in britain

@SaltySteff Год назад

@@its_yellow lol same. Us North Americans can't relate

@mikes8917 11 месяцев назад

In England that’s normal, my family have been in the same village since the 11th Century, and we are still there now. The family name is Anglo Saxon decent.

@Astrobuni 11 месяцев назад

@@mikes8917 that's so cool!

@wolfzmusic9706 11 месяцев назад

Isn't that normal in a lot of countries?

@chickenlover657 Год назад

Scientists in video: A rare gene saved them! People in comments: She drank bacon fat!

@dallymoo7816 Год назад

Some who had it perished and some survived who didn't. . Maybe she puked and it helped

@billweir8824 11 месяцев назад

What doesn't kill you makes you alive! But truth is we must die to live Romans chapter 6 please see 'Christadelphian videos and Christadelphian bible talks'

@kylorekt8900 3 месяца назад

ive not seen one comment saying that

@chickenlover657 3 месяца назад

@@kylorekt8900 So you went back to the comments from a year ago and didn't see it? Sure, mate....

@soxpeewee 3 месяца назад

Fat has health some benefits and she was probably malnourished at the time of consuming as well.

@FrankD-fo2be 7 месяцев назад

A fascinating mystery. Imagine your family living in the same town for 400 years.

@douglasschmidt2869 7 месяцев назад

I Don’t have to imagine. It pretty common actually. Most Ppl generally die within 5 miles of their birthplace in fact. At least that’s how it was as of a few decades ago.

@tilenjeraj2684 7 месяцев назад

My family lives in same village since 12th century. Place is called Europe…

@orathaic 6 месяцев назад

This was far more common before the invention of the bicycle... People would never go behind the nearest few villages (fairly small dating pools). In Russia serf's were not even allowed to leave the land they farmed. But in much of Europe an entire class of people living and worked their whole lives close to their birthplaces. Not true of the wealthy, nor of merchants, or the previous herder who moved with their cattle... But huge numbers never went far.

@lars2007 6 месяцев назад

Not really unusual my family lived in same village for over 400 year however none of my family now live in the village since 2018

@dotesondots 5 месяцев назад

It is mind-blowing.

@marissamate 4 месяца назад

I was getting a little bored of history.. then I watched this video. It BLEW my mind! So cool!

@Moodboard39 4 месяца назад

Because how it was made ! Not everyone make good documentary like this .

@andreabasse5616 Год назад

I'm a paramedic worked all through covid. Never got sick throughout. Probably exposed over 1000 times. Someone right next to me on a cardiac arrest from covid ended up in icu. I think I had chills a few times. Interesting stuff

@larsha01 Год назад

Yes I can't help but wonder if gene mutations like delta 32 also could help block out other illnesses or just the black plauge. I really wonder if there's a trial/study going on that is about somepeople having some sort of genetic resistance to covid

@normahepburn1643 Год назад

Certain foods are virus killers and antibacterial and we could be eating these without knowing their disease fighting properties.

@talex1625 Год назад

Thank you for what you did for others throughout Covid Andrea. God bless you for that x

@lymarie1974 Год назад

Thank you and bless you for all you do. 💞

@Valoelify Год назад

@@binanocht6110 Not a type of cell... They have most likely inherited the gene Delta 32, which causes the prevention of disease from entering the white bloodcells as talked about quite a lot in this video.

@obsidereme Год назад

I remember reading a book about Elizabeth Glaser. How she got HIV through a blood transfusion. She had 2 kids, but only one died. Her husband and son were ok, they later found out the father had this mutation but only the son presented it as well.

@nbenefiel 10 месяцев назад

I had a C-section and blood transfusions the same month Elizabeth Glaser did. I worried about HIV For years. When they developed the tests, I got tested and was Ok. I have always grieved for Elizabeth, Michael and their children.

@obsidereme 10 месяцев назад

@@nbenefiel can't imagine how was to live with that uncertainty, I'm glad you were not affected.

@valeriewalker954 9 месяцев назад

The actor. Yes

@gloriarangott8803 8 месяцев назад

Gene passed on through the male 😮

@kellykwon2232 8 месяцев назад

It's almost as if things like viruses are making up for the extinct bears that would have eaten the weaker.

@joycebaron672 4 месяца назад

I've been to Eyam when visiting family in Derbyshire, beautiful village so is the church. There's a board inside with the names of the people that succumbed to the plague. And interesting reading the headstones on the graves, what brave selfless people they were. Would love to go back again to pay my respect next time back there, the whole village isolated themselves from the outside world to stop the spread further north,

@StephBer1 10 месяцев назад

Apparently they've discovered recently that the gene that protected them from the plague with an overactive immune system also gave the survivors another type of overactive immune response, allergies. So somewhere in the past one of my ancestors must have survived the plague because I have the worst allergies.

@ilanam8266 8 месяцев назад

if you are of english or European descent… then yes one of your ancestors definitely survived the plague because you are alive rn lol

@OakwiseBecoming 8 месяцев назад

Same

@saimaleon7115 8 месяцев назад

It wasn't an "overactive immune system" which protected them from the plague but that their lymphocytes had a barrier to the plague bacteria being able to enter them.

@user-od5fh3gn4d 7 месяцев назад

YES.

@fryertuck6496 7 месяцев назад

@@ilanam8266Frankly that is a stupid statement. If everyone who made it through had the immunity gene then no one in Europe or England would have contracted HIV. People avoiding the plague is very different from surviving it.

@amantedar123 Год назад

When I was about 14 years old, I took part in a play called "The Roses of Eyam". It was about the plague striking that village. Now I am 59. Eyam was a well documented case of a village surviving the plague. I do not know whether it was because of this play, but since then I have been very interested in infectious diseases.

@frugalitystartsathome4889 Год назад

I remember watching that play on tv when I was much younger. I found the whole story fascinating and it always stayed with me thereafter.

@billweir8824 11 месяцев назад

Jesus Christ said one great last plaque coming in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 as recorded to happen when the nations fail to observe what they must do - especially Egypt is singled out see Zechariah chapter 12 regarding Israel crying over Jesus and Zechariah chapter 13 the temple mount greatly enlarged when the mount of Olives splits from Jesus feet and then further plagues on nations in chapter 14 please find 'Christadelphian videos'and Christadelphian bible talks'for the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ speakers worldwide from Australia NewZealand England South Africa and North America United States and Canada wonderful subjects to understand the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ 😊

@faithrada 10 месяцев назад

@billweir8824 ANY plague YOU get will likely seem pretty GREAT to you no doubt.

@benjaminollis7621 10 месяцев назад

@@billweir8824 obviously he wasn't referring to 'covid'

@billweir8824 10 месяцев назад

@@benjaminollis7621 @70,000 died of a plague until bought the theeshingfloor and offer on an altar

@Vallyrah Год назад

There was a theory that cat populations had an effect on the plague. Cats killed the animals that carried the fleas. That cats were being killed for various reasons in the middle ages; religious, their organs or meat, etc. But in the farming communities, they would have known that cats are an important part of keeping their winter feed from pests. Furth cats would have lived outdoors more often so that they could preform this vital role. Could the higher cat populations in the country side have played a role?

@juliemclean6743 Год назад

From memory (i.e. don't take this for gospel) officials killed off strays and potentially pets fearing they were spreading the plague, both cats and dogs. I'm amazed the human race has survived considering the stupidity of our predecessors.

@natashaking2947 Год назад

Absolutely.. they believed that cats and dogs were spreading filth so we’re spreading the plague so they killed something like 50,0@0thousands cats and dogs but all they did is help the rat population

@juliemclean6743 Год назад

@@natashaking2947 Indeed, we humans are horrendously stupid at the worst of times. Look at what happened with Covid. I recall Jair Bolsonaro (Leader of Brazil) downplaying the seriousness of the disease and blocking a coordinated response resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. I have no words

@minealsomine9663 Год назад

@@juliemclean6743 no they killed cats because their eyes glow at night a sure sign of agents of the fictional devil they created, serves them right for their ignorance.

@Valoelify Год назад

"Saint" Benedict something, the Pope of the Vatican back during the times of the Black Death, determined that cats were evil beings and had as many of them wiped out as he could, mainly black cats. So he helped kill off a lot of people thanks to his religion obsession.

@chrisardern4594 10 месяцев назад

I actually visited this village in the 80s and some of the buildings had plaques outside telling the story of the family who lived in the house and those that had died.

@caitolent 7 месяцев назад

I think it's worth noting that sometimes fleas seem to have a preference for biting certain people... My husband and I were renting a house infested with mice, and those mice brought hundreds and hundreds of fleas with them. We were constantly overrun over the course of four years. Yet while my husband got bitten many, many times, I only got bitten *once*. One time. It burned like hell. I had just assumed I was getting bitten without my knowledge, but it turns out... I wasn't being bitten at all.

@EtherealSunset 5 месяцев назад

That's true, but when everyone else has died and you're their only food source, they'd pick you over starvation. They may have picked certain people to be their first meal, but would have bitten everyone eventually.

@dwaynegamble244 4 месяца назад

Yup I think its blood type We had a bad summer on Vancouver island in the 80s Dogs brought hundreds of fleas into the house They were in the carpet My step dad was getting eatin alive on his legs Watching tv and I never got a bite all summer As best as I can remember

@irishgrl 4 месяца назад

@@EtherealSunsetnot necessarily. Blood suckers have preferences. If they run out of their preferred source, they move on. My daughter is a target for mosquitoes & the bites look like boils! They pretty much ignore me as do fleas…

@mandy9775 4 месяца назад

Some also hate certain scents like lavender. So if you use lavender 💜 that may help with you being disliked.

@MrsSlocombesPuddyCat 3 месяца назад

@@mandy9775. The B Vitamin Group also seems to help.

@annegreengables6367 Год назад

Now we know where Monty Python got the idea for "I'm not dead yet. In fact, I am feeling better "

@poetryjones7946 Год назад

“Oh, get in the cart, don’t be a baby!”

@WestVirginia1959 Год назад

Tis but a scratch. ❤️

@CannelleInOK Год назад

"You're not fooling anyone, you know"

@oldschoolman1444 Год назад

You beat me to it, I was sure someone couldn't pass on Monty Python. 😂

@seanalpert6386 Год назад

Bring out your dead!

@femmie12 Год назад

I have so match respect for the people of eyam. What they were willing to do to save the neighboring villages!

@texastea5686 Год назад

Agree! *(It's spelled "much")

@dickJohnsonpeter Год назад

@@texastea5686 it was obviously a typo, not an ignorance of spelling.

@zxyatiywariii8 Год назад

Exactly! There were some wonderful people during the Mediaeval era, too many Modern people think they were all horrible.

@femmie12 Год назад

@@dickJohnsonpeter indeed

@femmie12 Год назад

@@texastea5686 whoops sorry typo

@yes12337 9 месяцев назад

The disease didn't affect Poland as well, which is explained either by use of a very strong alcohol (60% or stronger wasn't unusual) or that the country didn't interact with their neighbours. I'm not aware of any genetic research on this topic, but it seems like something worth investigating

@OakwiseBecoming 8 месяцев назад

I’d be interested to know if this was an era when a certain group of people was banned in Poland.

@carolagab 7 месяцев назад

@@OakwiseBecomingJewish community wasnt banned in Poland during that time. And they didn't get the plague because they kept eating clean and didn't use dirty water. The plague ravished Europe because you gentiles were dirty (using dirty water, not eating clean).

@agatkaaacoco 6 месяцев назад

@@OakwiseBecomingdo you mean Jews? King Casimir III of Poland gave refuge and protection to the Jews.

@Southpaw2198 6 месяцев назад

Ouch...

@gurglejug627 6 месяцев назад

@yes - when you say it didn't effect Poland, to what extent? Do you have any links or further info, at all, I'd be v interested to read more. Thx.

@robinglen2777 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for posting this! I remember my mum recorded this for me when it was on TV shortly after we visited Eyam. I had that VHS for years and watched it many times. Good memories

@lawr5764 7 месяцев назад

I'd be looking online for it on a DVD.

@SaltySteff Год назад

My ancestry is mostly Ulster-Scots, French and indigenous North American. For whatever reason I have an absolutely GODLIKE immunity to sickness. I never took a single day off during Covid and never got sick once. The worst I get is the odd cold now and again. I developed Bronchitis as an adult several years back and was on an antibiotic but it barely weakened me and I continued working with it until it went away on it's own. My dad is the same. He also rarely bruises and he heals extremely quickly. If I get a cut you can bet it will be completely gone, scar and all, within a few months max. Somewhere along the line, my ancestors developed some wicked immunity to general sickness. I am so thankful for having these genes. Thanks ancestors, you're the real ones 👊

@ericsonhazeltine5064 4 месяца назад

Nice way to go

@busterbiloxi3833 4 месяца назад

Me neither and I don’t share your ancestry at all!

@anitataylor4287 4 месяца назад

Same I'm Scot french canadian and native cree/mohawk

@user-xk6ky7gv9d 3 месяца назад

HIV is natural selection. Anal sex spreads disease. The body gives up. AIDs is always mutating. A night of the living dead is the only solution.

@aly.m.2705 3 месяца назад

Wow! You should get dna tested to see what exactly causes your super immunity. I’m honestly very shocked reading this because I get sick every so often so I had no idea your immunity was even possible, especially if your father is the same! Very cool

@MegaAli213 Год назад

My ancestors survived this extremely deadly plague and later migrated to the Virginia colonies, as an indentured servant in 1655, thank God. William Pettypool of Essex England.

@trianafoxwood7525 Год назад

Not too many people know their history like you.

@sophiejones304 Год назад

Those whose ancestors have survived the plaques have a strong immune system are also resistant to HIV, and other retroviruses like COVID 19

@nugsymalone1247 Год назад

Thats cool to know! I have like 35 years of journals of my relative from the 1800's which he wrote due to having the written accounts of his ancestors that came to America in the 1700s from germany which I also have. Its a great feeling having access to family history.

@robnash5311 10 месяцев назад

I love this. My ancestry goes back to Eyam to Peter Furniss who was born in Eyam 12 years before the plague hit and died in Eyam aged 84. I'm descended from a survivor and proud of the fact.

@argentorangeok6224 7 месяцев назад

You must be related to the person 2 comments up. Her relative's last name was "Furness" and she was from the same time.

@faithlesshound5621 7 месяцев назад

One positive thing the plague did for us is that Isaac Newton was sent home from Cambridge and had the peace and quiet to invent the calculus.

@frankkoolosko4255 7 месяцев назад

I remember watching this whole thing on nova probably 10 years ago. And to my astonishment I remembered delta 32.. I guess when you hear something as incredible is that it’s hard to forget

@John-ih2bx 5 месяцев назад

A wonderful, educational, interesting, and professional documentary of the Plague. I was quite surprised, because so many videos are overly/artificially dramatic when the drama of the incident doesn't require anyone making it more dramatic. Thank you, I have subscribed to your channel. So many interesting conjectures/hypotheses about the survivors. Bacon fat? Connection with Anthrax? Connection with thirst? Very interesting. This documentary is NOT one of conspiracies, but of scientific evaluation/research. Family names used for attempting to connect the survivors. But is doesn't stop there ... goes on to the investigation of HIV-resistance people. Amazing. An excellent documentary.

@MandyJMaddison 10 месяцев назад

This version of the events at Eyam downplays the heroism of the people who agreed to the lockdown. There were two members of the clergy involved- the newly-appointed Church of England priest and the Dissenting Priest who had retained his own small congregation. The two men joined forces. One of the crucial factors was that Eyam had a market that attracted custom from surrounding villages. This was one reason why the lockdown was essential.

@jeffreyhill4695 4 месяца назад

The lockdown caused more harm than good. We know that isolating people from each other for long periods of time and treating the desease with only vaccines causes the virus to mutate exponentially. Humans are built to share antibodies. With the exception of bloodborn pathogens. And dont me started on the mask situation.

@JMPeel 4 месяца назад

My husband constantly said that not requiring contract tracing with HIV/AIDS they missed people who caught the virus & survived & people who never caught it. There would have been a larger survivor group to study. He’s a petroleum engineer

@JB-vd8bi 4 месяца назад

You don't survive AIDS

@LunaC... Год назад

The thing is, everyone who is alive and has british ancestry has to be the descendant of someone who survived the plage... Otherwise they wouldn't be around?

@genesiscalderon9380 Год назад

It depends on how long their family has been in England, if they migrated at any point after the plague, they theoretically could have avoided exposure if they were coming from somewhere that didn’t have it.

@ViolentAurora Год назад

Yes and no

@izzieluv Год назад

I don't think everyone caught it.

@LunaC... Год назад

@@izzieluv that maybe but the number of people who are your ancestors from that time it would be impossible that lots of them didn't get it.

@MeetFrizzie Год назад

Not everyone caught it and people migrate in and out of countries all the time.

@vilerose7871 Год назад

Just the mere mention of the plague makes my body itch and I experience a mild case of nausea. RIP to all who've gone to diseases, viruses and bacteria.

@nosuchthing8 Год назад

Well we have covid to deal with

@jennyrose9454 Год назад

Bruh please. You can't even compare. Covid kills mostly old and already weak, the plague killed errybody.

@CB-rv2lj Год назад

@@nosuchthing8 covid has a lower death rate than common influenza recent reporting shows. so no. not even in the same realm actually.

@meeramoves4404 Год назад

@@nosuchthing8 Covid is a joke compared to plague.

@saschaesken5524 Год назад

Never neglect the culprit of the medicines

@annpanton2377 7 месяцев назад

I had the opportunity to visit Eyam in 2019 just before Covid and our very own lock down. Thank you so much for sharing this video.

@HalfGodHalfManYourWelcome 8 месяцев назад

Must be nice to know exactly where you come from over the generations. I suspect that's a gift many take for granted.

@LiLiLit Месяц назад

That's what I was thinking while watching this too😢

@jodimae206 7 месяцев назад

I'm so glad I live in the modern era. People suffered so much back then, dying horrible deaths. I have a good chance of living a normal life span, but back then, I probably would be dead by now.

@Heavyisthecrown 2 месяца назад

Very true. Almost everyone was extremely poor. Didn’t matter your race, gender, religion everyone was dirt poor. Even the poorest people today in the first world are wealthy compare to what the average person had back then! So crazy!

@SG-1-GRC 10 месяцев назад

My Great Grandfather was from Eyam. I've just started to research his family, looks like they might have been there during the plague, but only done initial research so far.

@ravenzyblack 7 месяцев назад

Get tested to see if you have the Delta 32 gene.

@estheresther8934 11 месяцев назад

I’m African American, and we often eat traditionally collard greens with bacon fat. I thought that was for taste only, but now I’m thinking that the bacon fat helped our ancestors with nutrients to fight off diseases, hmm.

@megw7312 11 месяцев назад

There is a theory that the disease-carrying fleas are repelled by nutmeg. ‘I had a little nut tree …’ might refer to this.

@captainhindsight6994 Год назад

Live in Sheffield and schools around here go on trips there. Amazing story in the face of everything and it's still a beautiful village to wander around, parking is horrendous though so go by bus if anyone reading this ever wants to visit.

@zxyatiywariii8 Год назад

Cool, were you (or your parents) living in Sheffield when "Threads" was filmed? That's an old movie and I don't know if you were alive then, but it was set there. It's free on YT if you've never seen it. Brilliantly well done movie about nuclear apocalypse.

@saschaesken5524 Год назад

@@zxyatiywariii8 Real horrors always manmade.

@megbro9762 Год назад

I can’t imagine living through this without being able to know how my loved ones are doing. No cell phones no postal service. You would just have to pray that your loved ones are OK. What a scary time. We only got a small fraction of that with the most recent pandemic. But it pales in comparison to what these people had to deal with.

@nugsymalone1247 Год назад

Well the media and the government basically made the pandemic worse. They flipped on their stories constantly, and they tried to scare the hell out of everyone. They made the mental aspect much worse. After all, I never once saw bodies piling up in the streets from covid....

@montananerd8244 Год назад

I am a historian and we had created an exhibit on epidemics in our town right before COVID arrived. Once we convinced people that we didn't plan the coordination or the epidemic lol, it was interesting to remind them it's awful, but it's the best pandemic ever. Now I am not being flippant about those suffering, but overall, on average, COVID was absolutely amazing and wonderful in comparison to the past. We couldn't see it, of course, but looking at 1917, wow did we have it good in 2020...

@michelleduplooymalherbe2837 Год назад

@@montananerd8244 I CAN NOT IMAGINE IT BEING WORSE!!!! AND JUST THINK THAT WE HAD SO MUCH MORE TO FIGHT THE PANDEMIC WITH THAN WHAT THOSE POOR PEOPLE HAD I.E. COMMUNICATION/MEDICAL KNOW HOW - JUST PROVES AGAIN HOW SPOILT WE ARE - MOANING BECAUSE WE(I) CAN NOT GO TO GYM OR THAT I DO NOT JUST WANT TO SPEAK TO MY FAMILY/FRIENDS ON THE PHONE/E-MAIL - I WANT TO PHYSICALLY TOUCH THEM........

@robertrobinson-9161 11 месяцев назад

Postal service is 2000 years old

@NoIdea68 11 месяцев назад

@@michelleduplooymalherbe2837 Tell me about it. Some people are just pathetic

@johncamp7679 10 месяцев назад

I was about 10 or so in 1982 and my mom worked in a hospital in Atlanta. We were out at piedmont park and I needed to go to the restroom. She told me to make sure the seat was covered because there was a strange virus going around and doctors didn’t know what it was.

@Fido-vm9zi 8 месяцев назад

Think that's been around for a long time

@suet.r.4815 10 месяцев назад

The very idea, expressed here, that people were suddenly eating better than they ever had, may very-well have been a factor in the survival of 50% of the towns population. But let's be clear, 50% mortality is still abysmal and catastrophic!

@robjanssen2353 2 года назад

The story about Margret Blackwell drinking fat and surviving plague is fascinating! I've hypothesised that it may have been vitamin K2 (activator X) in the fat may have been the reason.

@bladyfn 2 года назад

wasn’t it bacon grease that’s so nasty 😭

@tdr2345 Год назад

Youre so smart

@Feiy16 Год назад

That's an intriguing hypothesis. It's a reasonable assumption that vitamin K2 might have played a role in her recovery. Especially given the fact that they were supplied with sufficient food. More effective absorption of nutrients, in combination with the single copy of the Delta 32 gene, could have awarded her body the boost it needed to recuperate.

@rhondaallan4680 Год назад

@@bladyfn If I had to drink a fat, I'd choose bacon fat in a heartbeat.

@americanwoman6246 Год назад

Its the delta 23 mutation.. Its at the end of the video

@devorarossi961 Год назад

The gene is CCR5 and delta 32 means that there are some people who are missing 32 nucleotides from the gene CCR5. CCR5 is a chemokine receptor. Very nice documentary!

@susanhoneycutt5610 11 месяцев назад

@devorarossi961 Do you this gene is linked somehow to blood type or more likely to cell wall characteristics?

@devorarossi961 11 месяцев назад

@@susanhoneycutt5610 Not to my knowledge.

@yankee2666 10 месяцев назад

You've said nothing.

@UnitSe7en 10 месяцев назад

@@yankee2666 He named the exact gene the mutation occurs in. That's more than this documentary did. _YOU_ have said nothing.

@wuncieadams1352 10 месяцев назад

Wow! Just Wow! You are so smart. I have no idea what nucleotides are or what a chemokine receptor is but they must be important.

@Aemolya 7 месяцев назад

This is strange that a poor woman with two copies of Delta 32 did not pass it to each of her 6 children as every child got 50% of her DNA.

@JB-vd8bi 4 месяца назад

Yeah. So they got a copy from their mother. They also needed a copy from their father....

@Zzz-ij4ck 4 месяца назад

Not necessarily. If they had only one copy of the gene they would have become ill and then recovered.

@rickyspeople 4 месяца назад

One of the only times when marrying a cousin would've helped the kids 😂

@angelacrabtree2847 4 месяца назад

Genetic reshuffling can result in this.

@kirotheavenger60 4 месяца назад

More likely Delta 13 doesn't make you completely plague-proof

@Graymalkinn 10 месяцев назад

UH DANG WOW I was watching this video for the black death, I didn't expect the section about AIDS (much closer to home and closer in time)- but the way the story bridges the two diseases is actually very cool and smooth! That must be the "Riddle Of The Plague Survivors" part!

@ggrother539 2 года назад

Adequate provisions provided to the villagers would have greatly reduced stress, helping to maintain healthy bodyweight, all contributing to the support of the immune system, and again, in the case of drinking the bacon fat, replenishing the necessary calories, to sustain a life. Each person responds to any illness according to the health of the individual's immune system, and the aid they receive. People do have variants, a genetic advantage/ greater/less resistance to a specific ailment is not unknown. As heat exasperates swelling, the cooler mountain climate was another factor in their favour, I surmise. Thanks very much, Chronicle!

@talisikid1618 2 года назад

Being in “good” health won’t keep you well.

@sophiejones304 Год назад

I have read somewhere that fat is a good source of stem cells. I have noticed that when people lose a lot of weight when they have an illness they will likely die in the next few days

@this_is_not_my_real_name Год назад

I see you've never been to England, if you think parts of it could be hot or mountainous.

@ggrother539 Год назад

@@this_is_not_my_real_name Not recently, though I have visited London during a heatwave. England is not known for being mountainous, in comparison to other countries, but, neither is it flat.

@anonymousperson6462 2 месяца назад

@@talisikid1618actually, it could, yes (so I disagree).

@jchow5966 Год назад

This is fascinating. Thank you for this video/documentary!!!!!!

@dotesondots 5 месяцев назад

What a fascinating Chronicle! It is amazing to learn that two genes of Delta 32 gives resistance to these horrific diseases. Thank you for this information.

@Moodboard39 4 месяца назад

Wonder who else has delta 32

@marknichols3714 3 месяца назад

This was amazing. Thanks so much for this

@cynthiatolman326 3 месяца назад

They always show the plague times in dark and fog, I think showing a beautiful sunny day, which there must have been, contrasted with all the horror of so many deaths would be even more horrific.

@grumpynanny7402 10 месяцев назад

There was a documentary a while ago that was looking up AIDS survivors of partners. They also went here and looked up records and found descendants of the plague survivors. They checked the the dna and found they had it. I was so gobsmacked at this. This could be it. It was Eyam

@anthonytroisi6682 9 месяцев назад

Because people tended to marry within a small circle of local residents, a beneficial gene would be strongly replicated. All of us who could trace our lineage to areas hit by the plague have genes that provide us with resistance, not immunity, to certain diseases. If we did not have this advantage, we would not be here because our ancestors would have been eliminated by infectious disease and unable to reproduce.

@donnyposey5179 7 месяцев назад

@@anthonytroisi6682 it goes without saying.

@veronicalivell773 7 месяцев назад

@@anthonytroisi6682 rh o neg blood delta 32 gene

@Paliemienckaieo-ix4lg 7 месяцев назад

🤔

@michelles5439 7 месяцев назад

Delta32 existed long prior to 400 years ago.

@KatieLynnC92 3 месяца назад

It is so wild to stumble across this documentary. I first watched this over 10 years ago in school and found it so fascinating then and now

@emtube9298 Месяц назад

Utterly fascinating, top-notch reportage & presentation. Many thanks for posting this!

@barbi4766 2 года назад

That was intersting. I do not have a head for Science but when I learned about how HIV/AIDS worked in Science many years ago it stuck with me. As they were talking about how Black Plague works the similarity to HIV/AIDS struck me before they even started talking about it. Thanks I love learning something new!

@thewerd 2 года назад

Def not like aids lol. Bubonnic to Phumomonic to 100 percent fatality.

@barbi4766 2 года назад

@@thewerd Dude I am talking about how both Bubonic Plague and HIV/AIDS both infiltrate the immune system. Not about death rates.🤦‍♀️

@thewerd 2 года назад

@@barbi4766 Still off, Black Death is zoonottic and treatable if caught, Aids/HIV is autoimmune with 2 ever fully cured cases ever...Arent caught the same, trans mitted the same, dont act the same, cant really be more different.

@barbi4766 2 года назад

@@thewerd I feel like your focusing on everything but what I am saying. I love a good debate but this is not one. I am specifically talking about how both Bubonic plague and HIV/AIDS invade white Blood cells and use it for their own ends. Yes there are differences such as one is a virus and the other is bacteria. The video does talk about this immune stuff, so I do wonder if you watched it all? If not maybe watch the whole video? They make the comparison too.

@thewerd 2 года назад

@@barbi4766 Uhhh i giess you are right, its similar when it comes to what it does to white bloodcells but not exactly the same. And I still def gave you 5 other ways theyre not alike at all. Anemia, Lupus, Lukemia, Kots are all way closer to HIV that Black Death is which isnt that close.

@catofthecastle1681 Год назад

I am historically, a descendant of a plague survivor! There is a line on my dna that says so! And that ancestor was most probably a Dane with Neanderthal genes! I think that might be why I have an incredible resistance to sickness and why I heal so fast!

@WendyJones-zx7is 10 месяцев назад

You may be blood type O Positive which is the healthiest blood type

@jonathaneffemey944 2 месяца назад

Thanks so much for posting

@jenniferderoofargen3697 9 месяцев назад

I am cackling! At 38:05 they swear and I wasn’t prepared for how hard I would laugh out loud at surprise in a quiet office. I’m totally ok with swearing. Just wasn’t expecting it in such a sad part of the doc. Please say someone else noticed it and laughed. Please?…..😂😂😂😂

@em6577 10 месяцев назад

Thankyou for sharing.

@debbralehrman5957 3 месяца назад

This is the second time I've seen this. It is so interesting.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@cathymoseschadwick6634 6 месяцев назад

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing this information

@magicalmara 6 месяцев назад

Your channel is so amazing, I love it!

@Lizbethduchi 9 месяцев назад

There's a really good article about the quarentine measures enacted in London during the 1637 outbreak of the plague called "Shutt up: Bubonic plague and quarentine in early modern England." by Kira L.S. Newman. It's really interesting and readable for a lay person.

@ofthedifference 7 месяцев назад

> @Lizbethduchi I would have a natural aversion to read something that begins with the words : "Shut up" but appreciate your referral.

@MikeHammer1 5 месяцев назад

@@ofthedifferenceNot shut, shutt. As in a person who is a shut-in due to health issues.

@ofthedifference 5 месяцев назад

@@MikeHammer1 Thank you for clearing that up for me Mike. I mistakenly thought it was an error in spelling because I have noticed an increase in folks spelling words incorrectly the past few years. You grounded me, and I am sincere in saying I appreciate that.

@nicollevelez8149 Год назад

Truly amazing 👏 🙌 what a great study

@grahamkearnon6682 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating, and, a huge victory for O Brian's never give up attitude.

@waynevaughan9325 10 месяцев назад

Quite a fascinating vid. Brilliant make more please.

@vintagetone22 7 месяцев назад

As a covid surviver i feel the horror that eyam village people has felt.covid wasnt as bad as the plague of 1665 but still was bad for this day and age.its taken me 3 years to recover and not fully from covid i spent 6 weeks in icu,and very bad state,came out with nerve damage in both legs and arms 1 year bed bound not moving 2nd year in wheelchair lots of medication and blood transfusion lost the sence in both feets and hands.after 2 years and 8 months im able to walk short distances.i can feel what these people has felt and seen death in my eyes alone isolated and scared.i consider mysef lucky to havr stayed alive,lots of studies has been done on me to help the nhs and other medical firms to help understand the virus.i hope we never see a horrible virus like this again.🙏🙏🙏⚘⚘❤⚘⚘🙏

@wilma8326 7 месяцев назад

I'm sorry for your suffering. But did you hear the narrator saying the plaque killed 25 MILLION people in Europe? How can you EVER compare covid to this??? Get real 🙄

@gwendolynfish2102 7 месяцев назад

God bless you !

@michellecd4722 7 месяцев назад

@vintagetone22 Check to see if you have the gene, most people don't realize that studies were done which proved that those with this gene (I have one copy of the two) who survived the Black Plague are highly susceptible to COVID-19 & very reactionary to it. Many people here are assuming the opposite which is not correct. You could have this gene & it could be why you've suffered so much. I found out I had it from the 23 and me test. This gene also makes you less likely to contract HIV.

@tjacobsen5131 7 месяцев назад

Sure it wasn’t the vaccine that made you ill? Covid is side effect no.1, they say..

@judith8161 7 месяцев назад

So sorry to hear what you have to go through. Ending up in hospital isolated and scared was literally my biggest fear when Covid startet in early 2020. I really did everything in my power to avoid an infection. When I finally got it in 2022, I was already vaccinated twice and thus only showed mild, flu-like symptoms that didn't require medical attention, which I am very grateful for. I wish you all the very best for your recovery!

@josie1949 10 месяцев назад

What an amazing documentary.. all I can say is I’m glad I live in this era and not in Middle Ages.

@lisahinton9682 10 месяцев назад

@josie1949 Oh, you were there. You were alive in that time, maybe not in that country, but you were here somewhere. We all were.

@frlo7688 7 месяцев назад

Whats any different ? Plssss 😅 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@Heavyisthecrown 2 месяца назад

@@frlo7688what’s different? Are you serious? Almost every single person was dead poor. Children died all around you. Most people didn’t live past 45. No bathrooms so dumped your piss and shit in the street. Literally your world was covered in shit. Which came with rodents and pests everywhere. There was no stores, no medicine. You didn’t have showers either. Most people very rarely bathed, this was for the wealthy. Very common to see dead bodies around and smell their decay. A huge fire broke out after this there, there is not fire department at all. Just men with buckets. Which does almost nothing. There also was no hospital, even today if you have no more or no insurance and need immediate care in America you are seen no matter what. That didn’t exist. Hurt your leg? Well cut it off right here while you’re awake . If you live great, if not your mother can drag you to the pits. I don’t think you can even comprehend just how different life was. They literally knew nothing like what we know now. We can’t imagine it because we know so much that’s to technology. Before this people were in the dark

@hansmarheim7620 Месяц назад

Very interesting documentary. Thanks for uploading!

@MrPhillip2 7 месяцев назад

I began watching a medieval history show about the plague only to end with the realization I carry one copy of the delta 32 gene. What a catharsis, to know why I didn’t die. I also know I had relatives living in London at the time; the Metcalf’s (of the middle hill), descendants of Arkfrith the Dane. That some folks had a gene for it means that similar virus had visited man prior to the plague.

@helenr-b8156 Год назад

My first thought is: Perhaps the fact these people were well fed, moreso as you say than better days, contributed to the health and wellbeing of this village?

@nosuchthing8 Год назад

It was because of ivermectin! Kidding

@naowright9308 Год назад

@@nosuchthing8 Maybe they stayed away from untried vaccines as well.

@lindaliriel Год назад

The wealthy were very well fed, yet they died the same.

@12345Micki Год назад

@@nosuchthing8 somebody is poking the bear.

@EA-xp7hm Год назад

That wouldn’t explain why a plethora of wealthy people - who certainly would have been well fed, still perished

@evalevy2909 2 года назад

This is fascinating. I wonder now years later to what extent this research has been important in the development of hiv treatment

@Blue-rl5dp 2 года назад

Its primary importance is how they develop prevention vaccines. They've gone from injecting people with dead or damaged viruses into people to injecting them with healthy gene components that cause your own cells to close up and reject the virus so it can't get in and replicate.

@leahflower9924 2 года назад

i want a smart british historian boyfriend we could just sit in a coffee shop and talk about old stuff lol

@evalevy2909 2 года назад

@@Blue-rl5dp and that came from research on the inherited plague resistance?

@Blue-rl5dp 2 года назад

@@evalevy2909 In a roundabout way. Seems to me you can find out how to keep people from getting an illness by studying the people who didn't get the illness, or at least those who survived it.

@eileenlester4342 2 года назад

And Covid-19.

@poyznelf 9 месяцев назад

This is fascinating, utterly fascinating

@mhuppertz Месяц назад

This is fantastic work.

@meemurthelemur4811 2 года назад

One of my favorite plague docs! Thank you for uploading! Why didn't you upload the whole thing???

@DianaDeLuna 2 года назад

Yeah, is there a Part 2 coming?

@somniumisdreaming Год назад

Anyone interested in this should read up on sweating sickness, it was a very odd disease that could kill people overnight.

@Dreamheart101 Год назад

Will do! Thanks for the recommendation

@whitedragoness23 Год назад

Sadly no one knows what exactly it was as it died out. But there was a similar disease which was thought to be a variant of it in the past.

@Dreamheart101 Год назад

@@whitedragoness23- This sounds...SO WRONG out of context 😂 You're absolutely right though. While its good it died out, it is pretty sad we'll never get to know what it was.

@whitedragoness23 Год назад

@@Dreamheart101 the scary part is it could always come back and we wouldn’t know that it was the same disease and it seemed like it could kill a easily person in a day. It probably was too effective and ended up wiping its self out. Edit: I meant we don’t know what it was and it’s not documented in case it ever comes back.

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 Год назад

Scientists believe that the Sweating Sickness may have been. A particularly virulent version of influenza. Not unlike the Spanish Flu that ravaged the world in 1918. Which would explain why it eventually died out.

@seanacameron8940 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for such an exceptional story of an important discovery.Such time and effort inolved. Could this lead to new advances towards nightmares like Covid ? Again, thank you.

@gfdgfdet4Reqfg 3 месяца назад

this is my new favorite channel

@nanhinting7447 2 года назад

Very informative video. I'd learnt so much from watching it. Thanks.

@tabaxikhajit4541 Год назад

This history evolves into such a relevant current story. Love it! Thank you! (edit: You have not maximized your view potential... I respect that, but find it surprising. )

@agnes4584 8 месяцев назад

Fascinating documentary 👍

@marinacosta8835 7 месяцев назад

The most amazing thing for me about this is how these people know their entire family tree! I don't even know my great grandparent's names!

@Julieb615 5 месяцев назад

Start with genetic testing, like 23&Me and Ancestry. Chances are very good that you'll connect with a relative that has researched your ancestry.

@Automedon2 4 месяца назад

I've built my tree. Hundreds of members going back to the early 1600s, including their occupations and have pictures of many of the gravestones that still exist.

@Automedon2 3 месяца назад

@@breakablehandlewithcare Yes, but former Brit and my family was all from Scotland

@Automedon2 3 месяца назад

@@breakablehandlewithcare Tons of resources for that if you take the time. It took me two years. I didn't even know who my grandfather was until I did the research. Contrary to what you said, their was vast emigration from the British Isles to all over the world. That's how a good number of Americans got here.

@daylehudson6810 3 месяца назад

I dont know mine either

@davebutler3905 5 месяцев назад

A tall tale indeed. According to the figures presented, Eime only had slightly lower mortality rates than European cities. The extra food could account for this. Brings to mind the diamond princess, covid plague ship. 40% had some sort of immunity, possibly from previous exposure to a covid or a cross reactive disease.

@dc9631 2 года назад

Living in a rural town here in America, I have watched in a 30-year span about 70% of the people have left. The ones that remain are dying off due to old age. Everything is abandoned and falling apart. There are no jobs and when small shops do try to set-up, they don't last long. There just isn't enough people. ...so yes some of us do know what it's like to watch their whole town fall apart

@somniumisdreaming Год назад

Well that happens in the UK and other countries. Some towns get deserted eventually. The horror of the plague was how sudden and the death toll and also how many villages and towns were wiped out.

@granddame1000 Год назад

Little we live in same small town

@iaminpainauchocolat9300 Год назад

Not the same as having a plague wipe through the continent bby.

@iaminpainauchocolat9300 Год назад

Not the same as having a plague wipe through the continent bby.

@CB-rv2lj Год назад

enjoy it when society collapses.

@lilysudak4347 8 месяцев назад

very fascinating!!!!

@soggybottom3463 6 месяцев назад

Super documentary, thank you 👏👏👏

@taylortanner37 6 месяцев назад

The fact that there are squirrels here in Arizona that carry the plague is terrifying to me and kind of incredible that we haven't had another outbreak.

@annec781 4 месяца назад

California and Nevada too.

@taylortanner37 4 месяца назад

@@annec781 i knew about the California ones but didn't know about the Nevada ones. I grew up in las Vegas so guessing its either northern or mid nevada

@myfighthere 4 месяца назад

My guess is it wouldn't be nearly as deadly nowadays (IF people took precautions and actually listened to doctors!)

@taylortanner37 4 месяца назад

@@myfighthere if they get treatment right after exposure survival is 85%-90% but since cases are so rare that by the time they actually seek treatment it has a 50% to 70% mortality rate. Thankfully there's only like 7 cases a year.

@Andy_Babb 9 месяцев назад

25:14 it’s freaking wild that even a few years ago when this was made that scientists could not just say “let’s find if there’s a gene that helped keep some people immune or less susceptible”, but to be able to say “ok let’s go in and see if _THIS_ gene is present”. The idea of where science is heading and it’s possibilities are equal parts both incredibly amazing and terrifying.

@michelles5439 8 месяцев назад

They’re known about about the gene a long time ago. It wasn’t something new they just thought up on the fly.

@Andy_Babb 8 месяцев назад

@@michelles5439 I don’t think I said they just came up with it. Relatively speaking it was pretty recent, that doesn’t mean it had to be last week

@morseventurechannel1365 8 месяцев назад

They have been doing research on it, theres people immune to it

@philipinchina 8 месяцев назад

Fascinating.

@mckenr07 11 месяцев назад

Medicine in the Middle Ages was really “medicine”. Imagine waking up to the sound of a guy whistling while he bricks up your door and traps you inside to die alone. Feels a bit like one of my hangovers a few years back.

@daylehudson6810 3 месяца назад

That happened in an Alfred Hitchcock series. There was another that was called the Twilight zone. Could have been that one

@mckenr07 3 месяца назад

@@daylehudson6810 it happened in Edinburgh during the plague.

@glenbe4026 11 месяцев назад

I feel this documentary glosses over the original premise. What made this village unique in that a large percentage of the villagers survived. Sure they had the plague resistant gene, BUT a) why did this village have it in such a high percentage of the population? and b) later the documentary suggests the gene/mutation came about because of the plague across Europe. Why was this village different?

@helmandblue8720 10 месяцев назад

Inbreeding. Small village not many life partners to choose from. The majority of village was at most separated by three degrees of familial separation. Some may have married in to the village, but the majority were closely related and that resulted in a high frequency of this mutation.

@Paliemienckaieo-ix4lg 7 месяцев назад

Wow so informative

@xomox5316 7 месяцев назад

They had more/better food then they ever had before because the of the food drop offs. Poor nutrition is tied to plague outbreaks, give the body healthy good food and it will fight off plague better.

@maddieb.4282 7 месяцев назад

Does it gloss over or do we just not know the answers to all of those questions yet? They’re not going to make stuff up for a documentary

@glenbe4026 7 месяцев назад

@@maddieb.4282 neither. It acts as though it has actually does answer those questions when in fact it does not.

@terrioestreich4007 2 года назад

So interesting!!

@jeffalanvasconcellos3039 7 месяцев назад

Extremely interesting!

@louisebrown4622 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting thank you

@123YMR 7 месяцев назад

The plague in Ireland ‘killed the English inhabitants there in great numbers, but the native Irish, living in the mountains and uplands, were scarcely touched’

@Heavyisthecrown 2 месяца назад

Different genes react differently to everything. That’s why I don’t get why they say we are all the same when we clearly aren’t. There are plenty of diseases only certain races/nationalities get! Crazy! Guess it’s lucky of where you’re born and at what time huh!

@pamelahomeyer748 Год назад

Certain nationalities are either prone or not prone to various diseases also. Someday we will learn more about these genetic or food-based benefits. Hopefully we will learn a great deal soon

@kittimcconnell2633 Год назад

Could be cultural diet influences too, like how some wealthy people thought fruit and veg were poor people's food, so they suffered mild scurvy.

@iesika7387 Год назад

certain populations, yes. Certain nationalities, no. Nationalities are a human fiction with no bearing on biology whatsoever.

@nbenefiel 10 месяцев назад

Soon after the plague started in Eyam, the only healers in the village, a woman and her daughter, were hanged as witches. So there was no one left to help.

@cocochocookiedough 7 месяцев назад

💔

@maddieb.4282 7 месяцев назад

Source?

@sonjadidyk-tn4cc 3 месяца назад

EEJITS EH

@nbenefiel 3 месяца назад

@@sonjadidyk-tn4cc yeah, they were not the brightest. You don’t kill the doctors at the beginning of an epidemic.

@nbenefiel 3 месяца назад

@@maddieb.4282 It was in a book I read about 40 years ago. I don’t remember the name. I tried looking it up on Amazon but nothing rang a bell. It was written like a story but had a bibliography.