From performer/songwriter/novelist/mad-science expert Seanan McGuire, there's the long but disturbingly well-researched Schoolhouse Rock explanation of "The Black Death". Probably because it's an eight-minute song, I don't find a full non-commercial audio version anywhere online. There is, however, a YouTube video of Seanan giving a reading and talk at Google in her literary identity as Mira Grant, author of semi-dystopian science fiction, in which the song comes up about 20 minutes in and she sings a couple of verses off the cuff. It develops that Seanan had phoned the Centers for Disease Control for research advice on how to create medically plausible zombies - and was in the process of being politely blown off when the receptionist realized that "you're the Black Death girl", put her on speaker, and got her to sing the entire song for the secretarial pool, at which point she suddenly had eight CDC doctors willing to talk to her.
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