Hendrik Poinar: Decoding the Black Death

The Black Death and the Plague of Justinian were ancient killers that wiped out tens of millions of people in their respective centuries. Hendrik Poinar, Director of the Ancient DNA Centre at McMaster University and Researcher at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, returns to The Agenda in the Summer to discuss his work unlocking the mysteries behind these devastating plagues, and what they can teach us about deadly pathogens today.