However, in 1996, the remains of 9,000 bodies were discovered in the Nile Delta, with evidence suggesting a famine. Who is right? This is prime BBC2 fare.

Based on the Dame Agatha Christie novel, our favorite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov), is on a cruise up the Nile. He is surrounded by an interesting assortment of characters ...

In the summer of 1999, birds across New York were mysteriously dying in droves — their bodies peppering ... noting that West Nile virus can cause neurological symptoms and death.

The victims, he said, were either shot or beaten to death before being thrown in. Behind him, a truck idles, its flatbed already filling with bodies retrieved from the sewer well in East Nile ...