In the second of a short series of the “Polemical History Podcast”, Tim & Anthony discuss Plague: the single most infectious disease in human history, one whose name is synonymous with horror.

Join them as they talk about the three plague pandemics considered to be among the most infamous — and most fatal — biological events in human history: the First Pandemic, which began with the Justinianic Plague of the sixth century CE and reoccurred in western Eurasia and North Africa; the Black Death, devastating late medieval and early modern Europe, southwestern Asia and North Africa; and the Third Pandemic which killed millions in South and East Asia at the turn of the twentieth century.