The Mystery Of The Village That Beat The Black Death | Riddle Of The Plague Survivors | Chronicle
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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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
FFS stop repeating what we already know after each ad break! It renders 50% of this video superfluous! It's so bloody annoying!
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.
@@Aengus42That and the soporific cadence put me to sleep, unfortunately.
@@samwamm85what's the blood type?
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.
Visited there, unfortunately not in a year it was performed. You can understand their thanking God for their deliverance in those times.
breed the 2 villages together? superimmune. oh wait eugenics bad cos muh nasties
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 . 🍻🥨
@@fionasteinbrecht60 I saw the Passion Play in 1970. What an amazing experience!
Yeah, that always works.
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.
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
She knew what she was doing.
They probably had one gene, but being children were more susceptible to the bacterium and could not mount a strong enough defense in time.
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.
@@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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
She must have been living in a heavy trauma shock , dragging herself forward like a robot...
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....
@@thesandwich5321 and probably not able to make a decent living as a woman alone
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
@@thesandwich5321Widows/ widowers are seen as tragic figures in English novels . Its seen as a nice outcome if they remarry
What blows my mind more than anything is the fact that these people have been living in the same town for hundreds of years
still fairly common in britain
@@its_yellow lol same. Us North Americans can't relate
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.
@@mikes8917 that's so cool!
Isn't that normal in a lot of countries?
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.
Do you have 2 copies of it?
@@Thenoobestgirl Of what ? The family tree paperwork ? 🙂
No the gene
@@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.
@@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?
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.
bacon fat would be solid, not drinkable; maybe a fatty broth
@@johnlennox-pe2nq It can be liquid, if it's warm enough.
I always thought that too. In a reenactment, the pitcher was sitting near the kitchen hearth.
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.
I wondered that too.
Wow, I saw this on tv 20 years ago. Never thought I'd see it again and here it is.
Magic of the internet. I’m in the states so it’s like a brand new show (with dated information) to me 😊
@@shanecrump7932me too. I am in Florida. I love these type of documentaries. It make me feel good to learn something new about history.
I did wonder, looking at the cars and that 😄 early 2000s vibe
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
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
Certain foods are virus killers and antibacterial and we could be eating these without knowing their disease fighting properties.
Thank you for what you did for others throughout Covid Andrea. God bless you for that x
Thank you and bless you for all you do. 💞
@@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.
Scientists in video: A rare gene saved them! People in comments: She drank bacon fat!
Some who had it perished and some survived who didn't. . Maybe she puked and it helped
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'
ive not seen one comment saying that
@@kylorekt8900 So you went back to the comments from a year ago and didn't see it? Sure, mate....
Fat has health some benefits and she was probably malnourished at the time of consuming as well.
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.
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.
@@nbenefiel can't imagine how was to live with that uncertainty, I'm glad you were not affected.
The actor. Yes
Gene passed on through the male 😮
It's almost as if things like viruses are making up for the extinct bears that would have eaten the weaker.
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!!!
The comment above yours says they saw it 20 years ago. That's why it's well done. 🎉
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?
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.
Yes and no
I don't think everyone caught it.
@@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.
Not everyone caught it and people migrate in and out of countries all the time.
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?
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.
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
@@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
@@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.
"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.
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.
if you are of english or European descent… then yes one of your ancestors definitely survived the plague because you are alive rn lol
Same
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.
YES.
@@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.
A fascinating mystery. Imagine your family living in the same town for 400 years.
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.
My family lives in same village since 12th century. Place is called Europe…
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.
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
It is mind-blowing.
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.
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.
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 😊
@billweir8824 ANY plague YOU get will likely seem pretty GREAT to you no doubt.
@@billweir8824 obviously he wasn't referring to 'covid'
@@benjaminollis7621 @70,000 died of a plague until bought the theeshingfloor and offer on an altar
I was getting a little bored of history.. then I watched this video. It BLEW my mind! So cool!
Because how it was made ! Not everyone make good documentary like this .
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.
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.
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
@@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…
Some also hate certain scents like lavender. So if you use lavender 💜 that may help with you being disliked.
@@mandy9775. The B Vitamin Group also seems to help.
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
I’d be interested to know if this was an era when a certain group of people was banned in Poland.
@@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).
@@OakwiseBecomingdo you mean Jews? King Casimir III of Poland gave refuge and protection to the Jews.
Ouch...
@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.
Now we know where Monty Python got the idea for "I'm not dead yet. In fact, I am feeling better "
“Oh, get in the cart, don’t be a baby!”
Tis but a scratch. ❤️
"You're not fooling anyone, you know"
You beat me to it, I was sure someone couldn't pass on Monty Python. 😂
Bring out your dead!
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,
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.
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 👊
Nice way to go
Me neither and I don’t share your ancestry at all!
Same I'm Scot french canadian and native cree/mohawk
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.
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
There is a theory that the disease-carrying fleas are repelled by nutmeg. ‘I had a little nut tree …’ might refer to this.
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
You don't survive AIDS
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.
Yeah. So they got a copy from their mother. They also needed a copy from their father....
Not necessarily. If they had only one copy of the gene they would have become ill and then recovered.
One of the only times when marrying a cousin would've helped the kids 😂
Genetic reshuffling can result in this.
More likely Delta 13 doesn't make you completely plague-proof
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
I have so match respect for the people of eyam. What they were willing to do to save the neighboring villages!
Agree! *(It's spelled "much")
@@texastea5686 it was obviously a typo, not an ignorance of spelling.
Exactly! There were some wonderful people during the Mediaeval era, too many Modern people think they were all horrible.
@@dickJohnsonpeter indeed
@@texastea5686 whoops sorry typo
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.
Not too many people know their history like you.
Those whose ancestors have survived the plaques have a strong immune system are also resistant to HIV, and other retroviruses like COVID 19
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.
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
I'd be looking online for it on a DVD.
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.
Get tested to see if you have the Delta 32 gene.
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.
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.
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.
You must be related to the person 2 comments up. Her relative's last name was "Furness" and she was from the same time.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Well we have covid to deal with
Bruh please. You can't even compare. Covid kills mostly old and already weak, the plague killed errybody.
@@nosuchthing8 covid has a lower death rate than common influenza recent reporting shows. so no. not even in the same realm actually.
@@nosuchthing8 Covid is a joke compared to plague.
Never neglect the culprit of the medicines
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.
wasn’t it bacon grease that’s so nasty 😭
Youre so smart
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.
@@blxdyyy4778 If I had to drink a fat, I'd choose bacon fat in a heartbeat.
Its the delta 23 mutation.. Its at the end of the video
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.
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.
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.
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....
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...
@@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........
Postal service is 2000 years old
@@michelleduplooymalherbe2837 Tell me about it. Some people are just pathetic
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
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.
@@anthonytroisi6682 it goes without saying.
@@anthonytroisi6682 rh o neg blood delta 32 gene
🤔
Delta32 existed long prior to 400 years ago.
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.
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.
Think that's been around for a long time
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.
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.
@@zxyatiywariii8 Real horrors always manmade.
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!
@devorarossi961 Do you this gene is linked somehow to blood type or more likely to cell wall characteristics?
@@susanhoneycutt5610 Not to my knowledge.
You've said nothing.
@@yankee2666 He named the exact gene the mutation occurs in. That's more than this documentary did. _YOU_ have said nothing.
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.
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!
Must be nice to know exactly where you come from over the generations. I suspect that's a gift many take for granted.
That's what I was thinking while watching this too😢
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?
It was because of ivermectin! Kidding
@@nosuchthing8 Maybe they stayed away from untried vaccines as well.
The wealthy were very well fed, yet they died the same.
@@nosuchthing8 somebody is poking the bear.
That wouldn’t explain why a plethora of wealthy people - who certainly would have been well fed, still perished
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.
> @Lizbethduchi I would have a natural aversion to read something that begins with the words : "Shut up" but appreciate your referral.
@@ofthedifferenceNot shut, shutt. As in a person who is a shut-in due to health issues.
@@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.
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.
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.🙏🙏🙏⚘⚘❤⚘⚘🙏
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 🙄
God bless you !
@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.
Sure it wasn’t the vaccine that made you ill? Covid is side effect no.1, they say..
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!
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!
Being in “good” health won’t keep you well.
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
I see you've never been to England, if you think parts of it could be hot or mountainous.
@@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.
@@talisikid1618actually, it could, yes (so I disagree).
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
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.
Little we live in same small town
Not the same as having a plague wipe through the continent bby.
Not the same as having a plague wipe through the continent bby.
enjoy it when society collapses.
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!
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.
That happened in an Alfred Hitchcock series. There was another that was called the Twilight zone. Could have been that one
@@daylehudson6810 it happened in Edinburgh during the plague.
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!
You may be blood type O Positive which is the healthiest blood type
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!
Def not like aids lol. Bubonnic to Phumomonic to 100 percent fatality.
@@thewerd Dude I am talking about how both Bubonic Plague and HIV/AIDS both infiltrate the immune system. Not about death rates.🤦♀️
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
for the survivors there must have been a significant upside. imagine realising that you are immune, you could just go around claiming properties, taking stuff, taking livestock.
> @fourshore502 Interesting how people respond so differently to this video - your reaction reveals you have no moral compass to guide you.
I mean I would take advantage and go around helping people but whatever, dude.
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?…..😂😂😂😂
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.
California and Nevada too.
@@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
My guess is it wouldn't be nearly as deadly nowadays (IF people took precautions and actually listened to doctors!)
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
@@breakablehandlewithcare Yes, but former Brit and my family was all from Scotland
@@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.
I dont know mine either
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.
Wonder who else has delta 32
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.
“…the stories of those who survived have gone untold. Until now.” If “now” is 20 years ago, that is-since that’s when the _Secrets of the Dead_ episode “The Mystery of the Black Death” first aired, on 30 October 2002. Twenty-year old documentaries still have value and are interesting but providing complete or, at least, _some_ information as to their provenance (e.g., the date the documentary first aired) would give viewers some idea of how current (or not) the state of the science in the video is.
They do have so much value, I agree. People do need to know where it fits chronologically. I am bisexual, in 2012 the drug PrEP, a HIV prevention medication was introduced. if people thought this was current- ish, they may not seek it. I have an uncle who is living with AIDs. he is 60 and I am 30. The title of this video, I knew there would be a connection to HIV/AIDs. I clicked on it for that reason, aside from just general history interest. I didn't know how PrEP started, or came from. Just that sometime as I was coming of age, it became available. Now I know, that it was from research like this, and the smarts of Mr. Crone and his family, to push for new avenues of investigation. 10 years later from the date of the airing of this episode, there is a medication that is saving lives. A HIV preventative. the difference of mine and my uncles lives, and our cohorts is unbelievable. The predictive statement was accurate. people need to know what's available now. In our current year (2023), 20 years after the airing of this video; gay and bisexual men, no longer contribute to highest percentage rates of transmission and contraction of HIV/AIDs. Cis heterosexual people, now hold that position. It is no longer a gay peoples disease, it's a straight one. grasping the passage of time between the airing of this feature and now, is important to prompting the recontextualization of the subject matter; therefore relevance to self. This just highlights the constant need for education. Insights like these from older documentaries still in circulation, are highly important for keeping ever evolving topics in the current collective conscience. Dating it accurately for viewers, is part of that education piece.
"Now" is whenever you first see it
@@redfulla1494well now you and your uncle can sleep together, congratulations
@@YungSteambuns oh darling... This is what you chose to do with your time... Yours is the saddest story of this documentary experience. Please seek help, there is a happy world to enjoy when you're ready. take care.
@@redfulla1494With a name like YungSteambuns, this person should talk! I can only wonder if s/he hangs out with Wun Hung Lo.
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.
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Source?
EEJITS EH
@@sonjadidyk-tn4cc yeah, they were not the brightest. You don’t kill the doctors at the beginning of an epidemic.
@@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.
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
This is fascinating. Thank you for this video/documentary!!!!!!
This is fascinating. I wonder now years later to what extent this research has been important in the development of hiv treatment
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.
i want a smart british historian boyfriend we could just sit in a coffee shop and talk about old stuff lol
@@Blue-rl5dp and that came from research on the inherited plague resistance?
@@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.
And Covid-19.
Anyone interested in this should read up on sweating sickness, it was a very odd disease that could kill people overnight.
Will do! Thanks for the recommendation
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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’
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!
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?
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.
Wow so informative
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.
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
@@maddieb.4282 neither. It acts as though it has actually does answer those questions when in fact it does not.
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.
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.
They’re known about about the gene a long time ago. It wasn’t something new they just thought up on the fly.
@@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
They have been doing research on it, theres people immune to it
Fascinating, and, a huge victory for O Brian's never give up attitude.
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing this information
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.
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
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.
certain populations, yes. Certain nationalities, no. Nationalities are a human fiction with no bearing on biology whatsoever.
This was amazing. Thanks so much for this
Utterly fascinating, top-notch reportage & presentation. Many thanks for posting this!
Thankyou for sharing.
Truly amazing 👏 🙌 what a great study
This is fascinating, utterly fascinating
What an amazing documentary.. all I can say is I’m glad I live in this era and not in Middle Ages.
@josie1949 Oh, you were there. You were alive in that time, maybe not in that country, but you were here somewhere. We all were.
Whats any different ? Plssss 😅 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@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
In another video it was proposed that lice were also to blame, and even if they died over time in the cloth , their microscopic bacteria laden excrement could have been breathed in by the servant as he shook out the damp cloth. It being made damp probably kept the plague bacteria hydrated long enough. People in the village may have been conscious of better cleanliness practices. Just sweeping out a dirt floor on a regular basis may have helped to rid the house of lice and fleas.Fleas can live a very long time between blood feeds, as can bedbugs.I just think that village farmers did realize the value in keeping their animals healthy by cleanliness of pens etc and it carried over into the wives in the households.The value of selling healthy eggs, meat etc for a premium depended on a measure of cleanliness. They just couldn’t get top dollar for sick animals. Plus the small villages would have had greater access to fresh, unadulterated water supply. The dung would have been gathered also to a pile or stall to decompose for fertilizer. This commonly takes about a year to break down to be able to use, and frequently turned. The temperature of the compost gets pretty hot as it breaks down in the center and could catch fire if not tended to. The microbiotic bacteria heat up as they feed on the waste and multiply and create the heat. Also the dung contains ammonia from the animal urine and must have air exposure to eliminate and dry it away. Also the hay is added, possibly from bedding in the household beds added regularly which would cut down on the lice and flea eggs hatching inside the home. The heat would kill them also. Boiling clothing and hanging in the fresh and being able to have space to do this would have been a great advantage. Also on a farm the animals would have room to be kept separately from the household. And in general one advantage farm people also had was the access to garden fresh vegetables and fresh meat for better health and immune stability and they were more robust people that got plenty of exercise. These things I feel were in their favor.Also Delta 32 is a phenomenal thing!
This is the second time I've seen this. It is so interesting.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Fascinating documentary 👍
Thanks so much for posting
I think it's amazing that any of us of European ancestry are here at all considering the large percentage of people who were wiped out during waves of the plague. I don't think many people realize that the plague still exists worldwide. In the US it mainly affects the western states including my own Colorado where prairie dogs can spread the disease via fleas. It's rare though, only 500 cases reported in the US in the past 50 years. Fortunately, bubonic plague is treatable with modern antibiotics, and the vast majority of patients recover. Pneumonic plague is very rare worldwide, but if not treated with IV antibiotics within 24 hours, most patients die.
I mean Poland at that time wasn't affected by the plague in any major way from what I am aware, so I wouldn't say all Europeans, because I saw people of other European nationalities saying the same or similar.
Reminds me of how those who carry the markers for sickle cell anemia carry a resistance/protection to malaria. I wonder if there are any health consequences for carrying two copies of Delta 32?
Intriguingly, another malaria related mutation to the ACE2 receptor also seems to result in covid having less of an effect in those populations where malaria is endemic. Unfortunately, that particular mutation also seems to be associated with hypertension, so it's a case of pick your poison.
Another interesting phenomena is that the people in high malaria areas generally take medication to prevent it, and it also prevents most SARS viruses. @@47f0
Quite a fascinating vid. Brilliant make more please.
Very interesting documentary. Thanks for uploading!
Very informative video. I'd learnt so much from watching it. Thanks.
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. )
The fact that studying the Black Death has led to a discovery about AIDS absolutely astounded me. I read and watch’s a lot of documentaries around the Black Death but none of them have mentioned this. It makes me wonder, will technologies like CRISPR create a generation of AIDS-free humans?
very fascinating!!!!
One of my favorite plague docs! Thank you for uploading! Why didn't you upload the whole thing???
Yeah, is there a Part 2 coming?
I wonder what gene I have in my system. My father, myself and one of my brothers never got the flue and only got a cold 3 times. My mom and other 3 brothers always got colds and flues and we all lived in the same house.
What about Covid?
Long before my father and I were required to get flu shots for work (both currently in health care), neither of us have ever gotten the flu. I wonder if we also have a genetic resistance to coronaviruses.
My fathers family never get cold and flu……………or cancers…………..but he was exposed to asbestos because of his job…………..they diagnosed him with mesothelioma at 50 years old……….my mother developed cancer but was successfully treated………..my father never got sick……………. he lived to be 92…………………go figure
@@susettesantiago5509 I'm glad to hear(figuratively of course) that you Mom's cancer treatment was successful. Also that your father survived Measo. Not many survive that as the asbestos is said to cause so much damage the body cannot recover and there is no treatment other than treating symptoms. It's nice to hear they both went on to live many more years and they survived both of those highly aggressive diseases. Its not something that we hear of.
You can be infected and not show symptoms.
Your channel is so amazing, I love it!