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Reconstructing Black Death: Why Was Plague Microbe so Deadly? (PBS NewsHour video)

Researchers announced Wednesday that they've managed to reconstruct the genome of the Black Death, the illness that wiped out around half of Europe's population in just a few years in the mid-1300s. Ray Suarez discusses the developments with geneticist Hendrick Poinar of McMaster University.

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