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oh hey, its my fear explained! This amoeba absolutely horrifies me. Even if our antibodies can wreck it. I just dont want holes in my chemoelectrical anxiety machine
They didn't have to embrace it at all. It is omnipresent. You are no more or less in existential crisis now than at any other point in your life. And it shall remain that way all the way to your end. Literally everything is trying to kill you. That is your life, that is life for all humans, it is a constant; and it will never stop.
@@danielduncan6806 - or, you know, it is really unlikely to die of anything other than cancer (and even that not untimely for the most part) if you aren’t living a dangerous lifestyle and keep your eyes up in traffic.
@@danielduncan6806 or, yknow, you can live life not constantly thinking about depressing shit and what could go wrong, assuming that you dont have a mental health disorder that impacts your ability to do that
@@danielduncan6806 You could also look at it as even with trillions of microscopic and macroscopic enemies, humans still manage to enjoy their lives and survive
Yep, they know their audience. What’s that quote? “Horror stories don’t tell kids monsters exist. Kids already know that. Stories tell kids monsters can be beaten.” Something like that.
I really appreciate this channel spreading awareness. My family had to go through the ordeal of losing an 11 y/o girl from this. Contracted in the Brazos river in Texas. It was a very frightening event and since then we've tried to educate more people. Especially living in a lake town, we hand out free nose plugs and pamphlets. All back by an organization "Kyle cares Amoeba Awareness".
I am so sorry for your loss, although PAM is rare it is such a horrible disease to witness a loved one go through. I'm a microbiology student in university and we talked about this particular amoeba. There has been some fear that with climate change and with increasingly extreme summers, bodies of freshwater could become warmer and better environments for Naegleria fowleri. Although this problem is thankfully rare, a healthy amount of caution is so important.
As someone with huge-ass nostrils who always gets water all over the insides of my cavity whenever I swim, thanks for this. Guess I'll never swim again.
@@apocalypseap I mean, the real-life counterpart was Jewish and did teachings, and then his followers made the religion of Christianity. Now, back to the subject of DREAD.
@@user-GabrielAntsWithout being rude, not having braincells is a joke about being dumb, they know that they do have those, it's just a joke, I appreciate your explanation tho
My sister died to this, the last thing I saw of here was just being a slack-jawed body on the gurner that didn’t even look alive after taking a small dive into a local hot spring. I was young at the time and Inside Out came at the same time this happened. I remember that because I couldn’t be there at the hospital anymore and a friend of the family took me to that instead. I have never cried so hard in my life, especially during the imaginary friend forgetting scene. Despite how rare it is, it’s still awful to experience.
I wonder if that friend knew what Inside Out was going to be like. That's almost beautiful although it may not have been pleasant. I think it's one of the best kids films.
His proclivity to explore is that of an ancient explorer from a principality from circa bce. Yet his tendency of benevolence is that of an ancient explorer from a municipality from circa ad. Nonetheless shall your creative prowess prosper and the tides of history always in your favor.
I remember I thought I had it. I had a banging headache for days after going to the lake. I was so stressed, I didn’t eat for a week. Anything I tried eating, I’d vomit out of stress. It was awful
In the last two weeks, two people in Israel have died from the amoeba. And there are strong suspicions that few others have contracted it too. Considering the (very) low probability so many people will contract the amoeba in such a short time, this is an unprecedented case of mass contraction 😮
Today, most of the drinking water in Israel comes from wells, and not from the kinneret. and anyhow drinking water gets purified before they get to your tap. So don't worry yourself too much! :)
The 2 cases visited a specific water park where the water was probably not chlorinated enough and got contaminated as a result. The ministry of health ordered to shut down the water park after the second case so they can look deepet into the case
So I ordered a poster and while being shipped it got all crumpled and destroyed, so I asked for a new one. When you sent it back you put so much care into your packaging to make sure it wasn’t damaged. I just would like to say thank you for caring so much about your fans!
@@DBSilver2024 I saw a comment in the comment section about the same thing the person said but extended. I think @eioshen boboi copied a part of it and replied it to this comment for some reason. The original comment said *I had a mysterious brain injury about 5 years ago I got while in rural Mexico, that I believe was due to using a neti pot with warm tap water. I was in pretty bad shape for several* years, and recovery was far slower than I expected. The damage showed up on the MRI, and the attending neurologist believed it was from a pathogen like this. I'm still not 100%, probably about 90% though, which is far more than I thought I'd recover just a few years ago.
Friend of a friend got one of these when I was in college. She'd just gone swimming in a river with some friends, then over the next few days she started to feel feverish, seemed to be dehydrated no matter how much she drank, started to forget things, and was totally incoherent by the time they got her to the hospital. Two days after being admitted, she was gone. Crazy
As Kurg said, naegleriasis (a.k.a. primary amoebic encephalitis) is EXCEPTIONALLY rare, as A LOT of variables have to go perfectly right for you to contract the disease, but if you do have the misfortune of getting it, you are pretty much guaranteed death within a few days to two weeks even with aggressive, early treatment. Scary to think about. Season 2 of House featured a naegleriasis infection that killed a cop and should have killed Foreman, although it's mode of transmission (aerosolization via a misting spray for marijuana said cop was growing) is unheard of and frankly all but impossible. Frankly, Foreman not only surviving after showing symptoms, but having no neurological issues once cured, is nothing short of miraculous.
I remember how in first year of my university, when we were studying amebae, my professor made a presentation specifically about this ameba because a good friend of hers died from it after swimming in a lake. I still think about it a lot
I just went swimming in the ocean and I accidentally got a bunch of water up my nose. I watched this video absolutely terrified until the end. Thank you for giving me a heart attack. 😭
These animations, the 3-d models, the visual storytelling for infection, even the little existential dread skit just to advertise their merch, this is honestly one of the best channels on UA-cam. Y’all deserve all the support and recognition ❤️❤️
@@crep1544 They do, it's just masterfully textured and shaded, so they fit the rest of them perfectly. That's the paradox of any 3D work - it's only good when you don't notice it's 3D...
IDK why, but i forgot where i coped " kurzgesagt video on the brain eating amoeba" from and it's only been an hour.. Anyways,hi stranger with a verified mark
"oh but don't worry, it barely happens to anyone!" They said, knowing fully well that every pesron watching the video is gonna think "but what if i'm one of those people?"
I have a high school classmate who was diagnosed with this brain eater a few years ago. He was still alive well despite occasional movement disorders. But I am not sure if he would ever be fully cured.
@@lumanliu8457 I love how there's at least two people who "knows" someone who got infected by this and commented in that sense. With less than 350 cases worldwide in the last 90 years, this is HIGHLY improbable.
I can not get over how much i love the fact they made existential crisis a character in a way It actually got a good laugh outta me even though im constantly worrying about the unkown
You should watch this channel's video called 'Emergence.' It explains how large amount of unconscious beings work together ultimately forming consciousness.
@@softan "They react to their surroundings" Exactly . What do you think your sensory organs are doing ? at the cellular level things are chemical in nature .What you call the 'awareness' of an individual is a cumulative /emergent phenomenon . Or else you should be able to define what an 'awareness' is without going full metaphysics .
I remember when I was a kid growing up in Florida that in ponds, there were often signs that said not to put your head under the water because of amoeba. I always wonder why. Now, I'll never question them again.
I loved the cute animation near the end. Dread was kinda spooky until it started speaking. It was adorable. And the bird excited about all the knowledge available to learn... xD
I had a friend's mom scare the crap out of me with this amoeba. Went swimming in a popular lake, and my friend's mom warned us not to get water in our ears or nose. Of course, us being 11, we got water in our ears while trying not to. Panicked and told her mom and she said, "Well, we will see if you live in a week." So for that whole week I was in constant panick of dying.
I remember studying for the first time about this amoeba in my Parasitology classes when i was in Med school, and to this day is probably the most frightening microrganism i had read about, it´s just equally concerning the possibility of catching it or having to treat someone with that 93-97 % of fatality. Thankfully in my country this particular amoeba it´s almost immposible to find but in some other countries like the US cases are known to be present. Thanks kurzgesagt for another awesome video, creating awereness, and fuelling nightmares :)
For anyone still worried, they specified that the amoeba can only exist in *dirty* waters. Just don't jump into some random lake or a pool that isn't cleaned out regularly and you're fine. You're not likely to splash around in a spa since you're supposed to be relaxing, not going nuts, and when they say 'high in your nose' they MEAN high in your nose. As in, you can feel it in the bottom of your eyes kind of high. And that's a serious problem all on its own since that probably means you've inhaled some water into your lungs and you've got a DIFFERENT situation going on.
@@null1ffy798 I read your reply wrong at first, I thought you wrote “I sleep around at night” totally changed the intended meaning. I do agree though that OP has provided quite a bit of relief.
Jesus there’s something frightening about Kurtzgesagt animating “true” humans especially for this video. And holy hell the quality everywhere, anxiety inducing? Yes. Wonderful? Also yes!
@uNnHkP8mza who cares about that the content was amazing, i'm still tripping about what i just saw, the war between microbes is just.. how they kill each other by different methods, i mean, what's the limit there? these creatures seem at least as conscious as insects, the solutions applied from our bodies seem like some you would arrive by conscious thinking about how to solve that issue if you could control different parameters as your body temperature at will, which you can with some effort as proved by wim hoff, my guess is if we would watch these microworlds millions and millions of times more than what we do we'd probably see some spectacular events happen that'd prove beyond doubt the improvisational nature of all biology, probably some would be in that 3% of the infections in which the parasite is defeated once in the brain, if i understood correctly, and what we would see perhaps be the first time a 'new move' is being 'invented' by some single immune cell or bacteria
Huge shoutout to the cells in your body that literally use every strategy in the playbook to keep you alive. It's almost an entire sentience in its own right
The people who have succumbed to this amoeba had compromised immune systems as a result of the processed foods that they eat and the medications that they take. Healthy people all over the world are constantly exposed to this microorganism and nothing ever happens to them. It is only a handful of people who have weakened immune systems who should worry.
Your body is like a colonial organism. You are made up of trillions of individual cells just going about their life cycles. Eating, expelling waste, reacting to stimuli, replicating, and finally dying. In fact, in the time it has taken you to read this far millions or more of your own cells, tiny pices of you, have died and their remains are being delt with. They don't have sentience though so don't feel bad. Your cells are just organic, microscopic machines that just keep running as long as they have fuel to run on. So we are a massive collection of cells that are all doing their own thing and under that is the immune system which is like a kind of cellular secret police force, Big Brother of your biology. Patrolling and making certain that all your cells are obeying the rules and working together with their neighbors to advance the glorious union called The Body. Do not hoarde resources comrade, everything must be shared equally in the communist society of cells. What is that over there? A cell has decided that it will not work for the body and instead will look after it's own interests and the interests of its cellular "children". Biological capitalism that we call "cancer" which, if not delt with will mean the collapse and destruction of the entire colony. And while all of this is going on inside you and me and everyone else, we sit and wonder if we should take the final slice of pizza.
@glenngriffon8032 Communism is just an unattainable dream of the escapist who cannot accept the fact that people are not equal and can never be. The majority of people on this planet refuse to hold themselves accountable for their own actions. This is what makes communism impossible! Do you understand?
There’s a guy in my hometown who had this amoeba 🦠 and survived. Though it chowed a bit of his brain and left him blind on one eye. His one eye looks all white now.
@@xxan84 Because your eyes are directly connected to your brain obviously, as is your whole brain through all your veins or stems as I think of them, we are all jellyfish (first evolution of amoebas) evolved in different ways and with titan bodies grown and wrapped around us like in attack titan.
@@bigdawgbignuts5006 Well they have to be somewhere don't they lol, I know some people bullshit but most people are being honest pretty much all the time like you probably are
@@dashfire3185 But the immune system can attack an amoeba as well. We have defenses against larger intruders like parasites too, not only against bacteria or virus. If anything, one of the main reasons this disease is so deadly is the immune system's reaction itself, the video does mention the inflammation in the brain. That's us triggering it, not the amoeba. The real problem is that our immune response is very strong and destructive and can harm us as well. Now, harm in non vital areas of the body is fine, the cells will regenerate and we'll live on as if nothing ever happened. Harm in our most important areas, like the brain, heart, yeah, that's another story, and it can kill us probably even more easily than the disease itself.
"This parasite lives in water and will eat your brain!" "Whelp, I guess I'm never swimming ever again." "Don't worry! You're more likely to drown than be killed by the parasite!" "The reasons to never swim again just keep piling up..."
@@IntelligentleMANgief it is probably incorrect, but correction aside, I wanted just to keep the combo going to have a laugh. So, thank you for your opinion/statement, but I don’t really care about it. 😅
i was at high risk for getting this when I went to the natural hot springs in eastern california! I went to the ER after and made a plan for how to get treatment ASAP and try to be one of the 5 people who survived it.
@@nestor1907 If I wanted to be really cautious, plan was to drive the 5h to a major city with a teaching hospital (SF for me). The key is to get early & aggressive treatment. But I decided to wait 1-2d to see if my headache would go away, since I was at high altitude. If I did have it, I probably would have just died in the 1-2d while I was waiting. Sry if that was too morbid. The tricky thing is to get early & aggressive treatment before you think you need it, since IIRC people usually die within 48h of first symptoms.
Well, that was horrifying. a small microbe that we interact with pretty often and have little trouble with is basically unstoppable if it gets up your nose, and you won't notice anything wrong until its way too late.........thank god this is rare.
WOAH the narrator officially got a bird!! Now we know what he really looks like! This last part of the video was so different that what kurzgesagt normally does, and it really cought me off guard, but in a really good way. Thanks for entertaining us again
Kurzgesagt explaining 2 things very effectively: 1) I can die of almost anything, even a dip in the pool 2) Considering the size of the universe, time and space, I don't even matter Yep, this is exactly what I needed at 1:00 AM But once again, what a fantastic video, thank you so much, guys.
I just think about how death is a part of life, the fact that it can happen to anyone, so everyone is living in spite of that, and then how if the universe is indifferent, it isn't actively hostile nor impeding, just more nature.
I absolutely love how you can see the animation quality change and improve as you go along the Kurzgesagt video timeline. It means that we're supporting them well enough for them to be able to afford to take more time to put more effort into higher quality videos. Keep it up guys, we gotta keep them going
Still water + Balkan rage + Balkan breakfast+ adrenaline + noradrenaline + hawk tuah+ brain eating amoeba + mango mango mango + winter arc+ German stare + those who know ☠️
My supervisor, a young neurosurgeon just in his 30s , passed away due to this . I still remember we all had a pizza party just a day before and the next day he was brought in the ER with seizures. His MRI Brain was so haunting to see .
Seriously, how is it that no one is talking about how exponentially have the videos' animation quality improved in the last couple of months? Shoutout to the Kurzgesagt's animators' team.
His proclivity to explore is that of an ancient explorer from a principality from circa bce. Yet his tendency of benevolence is that of an ancient explorer from a municipality from circa ad. Nonetheless shall your creative prowess prosper and the tides of history always in your favor.
So there's a reason I didn't ask too many questions when I was taken in at the neurological department of my local hospital a few years back. I myself had just come down with a form of Lyme's Disease that lives in the fluids surrounding your brain and attacks the nervous system (great fun, lots of headache and fatigue for about a month and then suddenly half your face is paralyzed), just because I got bit by a minuscule infected arthropod while celebrating my birthday picnicking in the park. I learned that in the next room over was a guy who went swimming one day and ended up in the intensive care ward for about a week on life support because he was paralyzed from head to toe and so couldn't breathe and hardly pump his own blood. At that point I decided I'd try to avoid learning about too many neurological diseases because there's a terrifying amount of them, there's basically nothing you can do to stop them, and holy crap the effects are always _extreme._
Fortunately, we do have a cure for rabies, which is also a neurological disease. The way that it's treated is a lot different compared to other diseases. You see, rabies has a fairly large "incubation" period. You become infected with rabies when an infected mammal bites you and passes it to you through their saliva. At that point, the virus stays inside of the afflicted tissue - be it the arm, leg, ect. The virus can't do anything outside of your brain, so it has to multiply and reach your brain through your nervous tissue, which can take days, weeks... in rare occasions, years. If the virus is not in the brain, it is harmless. Once it reaches the brain, it is 100% fatal for the host. The way rabies is cured is through a rabies vaccine... after the host is infected! This is in contrast to other vaccines, in which they're given before any infection takes place. But with the vaccine, if the host takes the vaccine before rabies reaches the brain... it is 100% curable. So, basically rabies is either 100% fatal or 100% curable.
From what I've noticed, neurological parasites are very vulnerable outside of the brain and can't do anything until they reach it, where the journey to the brain usually takes days. This means that we could very likely create cures for these diseases after somebody is exposed like with rabies, which would be extremely safe given the parasites literally cannot do anything to your body if they're not in your brain. It's important to note however that certain people who are within constant contact with animals (such as veterinarians) are given rabies vaccines prior to any infection to protect them. This means we could probably also give vaccines for common neurological diseases before any contact with the pathogen occurs, if we figure out how to make vaccines for them.
it's scary, like they beat every other video of theirs and they constantly set the bar high. I fear for the next 3 years. Like, how far would the quality be..
I've always appreciated the progress in the quality of the animation that this channel has shown, and this video just amazes me in how good it looks. A bow to the team.
@@theanirudhagnihotri after all, commenting isn't supposed to be posting something very creative, it's telling what you think of the video. And that person didn't even ask for likes or anything! I don't see a single problem with that comment being how it is.
@@great_hedgehog8199 no...you're right. actually, i got pissed off seeing the same comments in every kurzgesagt video, and i'm not blaming u for that. u're doing ur thing as a viewer. but.....u know......mood swings...... sorry for that if u felt bad.
Steve Taylor portrayed as a cute bird is the most wonderful thing I've seen in a while. It almost has a lip sync, I rejoiced as soon as I saw it. Definitely a cool addition!
I think this cute bird portrays the viewer, not the narrator. Steve Taylor is a round red bird, accompanied by smaller red birbs, he can be seen at 10:03 .
@@hlibushok actually its the dark purple birb as seen in various plushie designs and seen in videos past the rest of the birbs are the team and various scientists that work together
@@talkinggallade5796 Just watch the "How to Kurzgesagt" video. The dark purple birb you're saying about, is probably the Duck, and the Duck is just a mascot.
Let's sit back and admire the amount of improvement Kurzgesagt made creating this video!! 0:31 blew me away with the improvement of human anatomy/style! 3:38 such beautiful animation 9:39 I am in awe 0: You and your Team are doing so well!! Thanks a bunch for this scary informative video💙
Hey everyone! I read many comments and stories and I just wanna clarify a bit since I have some knowledge on this topic! So this disease is very rare! Theres an average of 1-3 cases in the US a year, but still the chances are never zero! If you were swimming in the ocean and got water up your nose, you absolutely dont need to worry! Ocean water contains salt and is constantly on the move which isnt stable conditions for the amoeba to breed. (Speaking from personal experience since I've always got ocean water up my nose everytime and im fine) Even in your shower or bath, the chances are slimmer than a lake or pool, but still if you feel symptoms like: neck stiffness, headache, fever, nausea, vomiting or dizziness, please check with a doctor! You can avoid this by just wearing nose plugs or not diving underwater! Just dont be reckless and jump in abandoned pools like I've seen some videos of people doing! This disease is not a joke and if you spot it too late, you're done for! If you have any questions or scenarios please ask away, ill try my best to answer them! :)
I’m in a hotel resort in Mexico Cancun and they have a bunch of pools here and I accidentally got water in my nose and I want some verification to be sure I’ll be fine
Well mexico has hit climate which is a breeding ground for it BUT it is very very rare if the pools are well maintained! If they are im pretty sure you will be fine, but if you feel any of the symptoms I listed in the comment please check with a doctor in the early stages of symptoms do not brush it away :)
@@bb_5520Hi! Mexico is a warmer climate which increases risk, but if the pools are very well maintained im sure the chance is very low! Id still say check with a doctor before its too late, but im sure it will be okay!
@@ldrawsshey uh I sniffed water twice on my friend’s swimming pool, he says it has chlorine in it but I really don’t believe it. I live in the Midwest so please tell me if I should be concerned?
You guys had me panicking about my tropical vacation next year. This was the scariest thing I've watched on UA-cam! Glad it's not as common as you were making it seem at the start of the episode!
I know someone who's girlfriend died from this, it's no joke I'll never forget his words. "To see someone go from perfectly functional and happy go to the level of dementia and worse in the course of 3 days..."
If you ever feel like giving up, remember your immune system military that does absolutely everything with pure intention of saving your life... with unwavering perseverance
@@hibahprice6887except our immune system is part of us, one facet of a whole that can't function if incomplete. Our immune system is US - macrophages, neutrophils, WBCs, these are OURs. We are saving ourselves.
@@hibahprice6887immune system literally putting themselves on danger for us. And some of them are suicidal, killing the virus/bacteria by killing themselves.
I have three things to say: 1. Your animation has gotten so much better! This episode just looks GORGEOUS 2. You've effectively scared me away from lakes and seas and the sort for a long, long time 3. The last bit about the existential dread is so good, if I had any money I'd be shopping on your website right now! I love this channel so much
This featured in a major plot arc of House, M.D. when one of the doctors contracted nigleria while investigating the source of the amoeba. Turns out it came from the rainwater tank being used to water a cannabis grow. Really a terrifying illness (and obscure enough for a mystery).
Why does it have to sound like the name of my country, Nigeria? I don't like that. We have enough issues here adding a horrifying amoeba to it makes it even more horrifying. Please, they should look for another medical name for it.
the timing of this is actually insane, I've been spending a few days trying to find scientific background for an infection based apocalypse to build my new story around! this seems spooky enough and yet not too otherworldly to work super well with the tone I had in mind (and the stuff I already have)! gonna do some more research on this and take some artistic liberties to fit it to my setting but I think this is pretty much it! also great work as always
You could throw in something about rising water temperatures accelerating the growth/geographical-spread/evolution of the bug. Maybe also jump to mammal saliva (with all those mouth nerves) and infect humans through pets. Just brainstorming.
The visuals are mesmerizing. At this point, I'm having trouble following the narration of the video as I am just sitting here in awe of the absolute perfection of your color choice, animation, composition and utilization of depth of field. Especially the amoeba's journey to the brain is on another level!
I got to see a slide of brain material from a N. fowleri patient in a parasitology class and I've never seen such destruction on a slide before. Truly eye opening stuff!
Oh, well, I knew I wasn't gong to be sleeping after seeing the video anyway, so I'm going to take your cheerful little side-note in stride. I may allow myself one shudder.
I like to joke microbiology (and parasitology) are some of the scariest topics in science but immunology makes you feel a lot better. If you want some other scary parasitic diseases check out Acanthamoeba keratitis, toxoplasmosis, and loa loa filariasis.
From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes perfect sense that humans, who are not aquatic organisms, would not have a defense against another aqautic organism our bodies rarely come in contact with.
Yeah, that's the thing with pathogens that cross a barrier. They're either awful at infecting you because you're not their usual host, like Anisakis worms, or super good at it because your body lacks a lot of the proper defenses at first, like this Amoeba.
His proclivity to explore is that of an ancient explorer from a principality from circa bce. Yet his tendency of benevolence is that of an ancient explorer from a municipality from circa ad. Nonetheless shall your creative prowess prosper and the tides of history always in your favor.
I watched your video a few days ago, and today I read on the news that a 30+ year old woman died from this amoeba in Taiwan (where I currently live). She went to an indoor pool during July 21st to July 24th, and on the 26th she started having headaches, neck stiffening, and fever. She passed away on August 1st.. it sent chills down my spine. I shared your video to my family and friends, but too bad it doesn't have Traditional Chinese subtitles. I sure hope one day someone could help translate your videos so more people can benefit from these useful information. Thank you very much for making this video, you did an excellent job! Thank you.
I really like the dramatic music that's playing in the background of this video. Almost felt like a movie. Whoever composed the score for this did a great job. Between that and the quasi-3D animation, I can tell the production value is only going up. Kurzgesagt always gets better.
This does beg a question in my mind. We know humans can only get it when water with the amoeba in it gets pushed pretty far up the nose. However, we're not the only mammals that swim. Are there instances of other animals getting these infections? I'm genuinely curious.
Just assuming but 380 something cases in decades is a very low number. Animal health is not studied as extensively as humans, marine animals or fishes have probably evolved to be resistant to these organisms from centuries of evolution. So that just leaves out humans who choose to swim and any other land animal that chooses to swim without already knowing how to which is basically a miniscule fraction of animals. All of this is just a hypothesis. Maybe if humans choose to move to water indefinitely our body may adapt to this but in my experience i rarely see a lion go for a swim in the neighborhood swimming pool.
Yes, all mammals that have a similar nose to us can get it, but since it is so rare and hard to detect on an animal (you probably won't take a monkey to the hospital for a headache), there are almost none documented instances
Mammals aren't too different from us, I guess it's possible. Considering how rare it is and how fast it kills I doubt we will ever see it in the wild. Most animals that are not adapted for an aquatic lifestyle usually seldom go out swimming, meanwhile those who are adapted to it often have "nose closing" mechanisms. Even through the human nose, water only hardly gets in and when it get's in it usually hurts, so we usually want to avoid pushing water far up our nose.
This is a good question. I just looked into a bit, and apparently, cases have been observed in cattle and tapirs, but it doesn't affect dogs for some reason. Also some experimenters were apparently sadistic enough to test it on mice and confirmed they can also be infected.
Real takeaway from this: protect your nose. Olfactory nerve array is one of the few shortcuts that bypasses the majority of defensive measures that usually stops most incursions to your single most important organ. It's essentially your brain seeping out a bit to sense outside world there(same as eyes, but you are inclined to protect the eye more, and you do get more physical distance for the invaders to traverse. Ears are airgapped ish). Don't pick your nose(may push contaninants deeper), don't remove nose hairs(removes first line of defense against nasal cavity. Also risk of inflammation), Don't submerge the entire nasal cavity(you'll instinctly avoid it most of the time I guess. If not - you should be exhaling very slowly through your nose to keep the water out). PROTECT YOUR NOSE.
Having read Immune really added to this video. Instantly recognizing each cell and their functions truly emphasized the horror of seeing a neutrophil brushed off without a second thought.
@IIReeperCreeperII They are basically your body's equivalent of shock troopers / suicide bombers. They get deployed when your immune system wants something dead fast without any concern for collateral.
I’m in the same boat because I’ve seen Cells at Work! I was half-expecting the neutrophil cell to be a bleak white anime guy with a knife in this video.
@IIReeperCreeperII Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell. They make up about 50-70% of white blood cells and are one of the first immune cells to attack intruders, generally destroying them via phagocytosis (essentially eating them).
@@its_drez Cells at Work is surprisingly detailed. I'm not sure about the anime, but the manga at least has a fairly detailed description of what cells do as they are introduced. Obviously not as detailed as Immune, tho.
Probably better as a meme Body(more like immune system): Oh no! We have an unidentified disease,Ramp up the temperature! The unidentified disease A.K.A Amoeba: Jokes on you i am into that shit Though this is probably better Immune system: Ramp up the temps! We have amoeba Amoebae: jokes on you i am into that shit
One of my favorite professors in Medical School loved to talk about this Amoeba in particular. One advice he always gave us was to always blow air out of your nose or at least pinch it close whenever you go diving/jumping into water. It’s pretty rare to get infected by these bugs as the video said, but still a fascinating subject nonetheless!
If you pause at the precise moment during transition at 6:44 and try to focus on the image it looks like it's moving, I think it's the simulated depth of field causing my eyes to have trouble deciding on a focal length, creating an illusion of movement, it's trippy. This comment is very late to the game, but if someone stumbles upon it, give it a shot and let me know how it goes. p.s. don't look at it for too long, it gave me a headache.
as someone who lives with brain damage, topics that revolve around attacking brain matter are a very sensitive and nauseating topic for me. So to hear there's a micro-organism that is so perfectly adapted (through sheer chance it seems) for attacking the brain directly is extremely harrowing.
And the worst of all is that because it is a neglected disease in practically all countries, it would only become the target of research for possible cures and vaccines with a large number of deaths worldwide. And another aggravating factor is that, as this amoeba is already adapted to the human immune system, probably the only way to fight it would be with intense gene therapy in people already infected, or by creating embryos in the laboratory that are already resistant to this microorganism. In either case, it would be expensive, no doubt unethical, and very distressing.
Same with me I have a chronic undiagnosed head problem, which is why I clicked on this video. I was paranoid every night doing research and thinking there were bugs in my brain and that I will die anyday, to the extent of dreaming about it multiple times. But you can't live in fear. Hopefully it's just chronic not deadly or progressive. Glad to be alive.
As someone who literally just finished a Microbiology exam which involves pathogenesis and the immune system, very interesting to see the pathogenesis of this amoeba, and thinking about the steps in which it can avoid complement activation and antibodies. I wonder if the mechanisms are similar to what I learned, does it use a protease? Are there any surface proteins that mimic regulatory proteins? Fc receptors? So many questions!
You may have already seen it, but there's a link in the description to their list of sources! It looks like they've cited two papers discussing that subject, both quoted as saying the amoeba "internalizes the antigen-antibody complex" -- if that sounds like it's on the right track, you should totally check them out :)
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oh hey, its my fear explained! This amoeba absolutely horrifies me. Even if our antibodies can wreck it. I just dont want holes in my chemoelectrical anxiety machine
Of course you are afraid of brain eating amoebas. That makes all of the sense.
OMG its Roanoke
Engineer gaming
@@thetruecyrusplayz1256 omg......and?
Helo :)
Luckily I’m safe from this amoeba since I lack the brain cells for it to feed on.
Hey it's you
i can relate
relatable
You cant lose your brain, if you dont have a brain 😎😎😎
we should pray on little caesar's downfall
anxiety unlocked: never swim again
Remember me when this comment gets famous
Lol like they guy above me Arthur lol idc tho :)
bruh your here too?
Might be buying some nose plugs after this
In fresh water places and if you swallow it
I love how they just like say your gonna die and then just say "nah it probably fine"
Dude like 8 people died in my country this year and 1 is on life support by Naegleria only.
Don't know data about acanthameoba.
Your in America @@indiankid8601
I love how Kurzgesagt has embraced the existential dread that accompanies most of their videos
They didn't have to embrace it at all. It is omnipresent. You are no more or less in existential crisis now than at any other point in your life. And it shall remain that way all the way to your end. Literally everything is trying to kill you. That is your life, that is life for all humans, it is a constant; and it will never stop.
@@danielduncan6806 - or, you know, it is really unlikely to die of anything other than cancer (and even that not untimely for the most part) if you aren’t living a dangerous lifestyle and keep your eyes up in traffic.
@@danielduncan6806 or, yknow, you can live life not constantly thinking about depressing shit and what could go wrong, assuming that you dont have a mental health disorder that impacts your ability to do that
@@danielduncan6806 You could also look at it as even with trillions of microscopic and macroscopic enemies, humans still manage to enjoy their lives and survive
They embraced the memes
This is the most aesthetically pleasing horror story I've ever seen. Truly a masterpiece of psychological horror.
And it’s real : )
@@disturbedpictures12 "based on a true story"
@@501Magnum "is a true story"
Source: Trust me bro.
@@pauldacon828 I think "Source: Kurzgesagt" is more than acceptable.
I love how they finally addressed the existential dread that their videos can cause and turned it into marketing
Yep, they know their audience.
What’s that quote? “Horror stories don’t tell kids monsters exist. Kids already know that. Stories tell kids monsters can be beaten.”
Something like that.
Sounds like they are running for President
I hate it
Didn't they address it with that Optimistic Nihilism video?
Existential Dread is why I'm here.
I love how every kurzgesagt's video scenario is like:
1. We're fucked up
2. Nvm we're good
3. Nvm we're fucked up
Real
Yep
Ay,this is a kids channel,don't swear!
@@donavanshields-16352 no fucking swearing
@@donavanshields-16352"No cussing guys!!"
I really appreciate this channel spreading awareness. My family had to go through the ordeal of losing an 11 y/o girl from this. Contracted in the Brazos river in Texas. It was a very frightening event and since then we've tried to educate more people. Especially living in a lake town, we hand out free nose plugs and pamphlets. All back by an organization "Kyle cares Amoeba Awareness".
I am so sorry to hear that... May her soul rest in peace
RIP
RIP, I am so sorry to hear this. I am also now terrified of this since I live next to brazos river. I was so shocked to read your comment.
Well, she’s one of 300 people who got it. Condolences
I am so sorry for your loss, although PAM is rare it is such a horrible disease to witness a loved one go through. I'm a microbiology student in university and we talked about this particular amoeba. There has been some fear that with climate change and with increasingly extreme summers, bodies of freshwater could become warmer and better environments for Naegleria fowleri. Although this problem is thankfully rare, a healthy amount of caution is so important.
As someone with huge-ass nostrils who always gets water all over the insides of my cavity whenever I swim, thanks for this. Guess I'll never swim again.
Or if you DO swim, be really really paranoid about headaches a week or so later ?
Same. Some things You prefer to don’t know
Go in a pool not a lake and u should be fine
Or get one of those nose cap sort of things
da ocean
I love how they acknowledge the existential, _"thanks Kurzgesagt, now I'm terrifed of just being alive"_ into an animated being.
I knoooow
@@Call_Upon_YAH Hey! did you know that if Jesus was a real person, he was actually most likely a buddhist? Yeah, reality. It's a thing.
@@apocalypseap wait, what?
@@apocalypseap I mean, the real-life counterpart was Jewish and did teachings, and then his followers made the religion of Christianity. Now, back to the subject of DREAD.
Yeah, I love that too.
50% of comments: haha, never swim again
50% of comments: it starved in my brain because it had no braincells
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@@user-GabrielAntsno shit, people are just referencing a joke.
@@user-GabrielAnts lmao, okay buddy
@@user-GabrielAntsWithout being rude, not having braincells is a joke about being dumb, they know that they do have those, it's just a joke, I appreciate your explanation tho
My sister died to this, the last thing I saw of here was just being a slack-jawed body on the gurner that didn’t even look alive after taking a small dive into a local hot spring. I was young at the time and Inside Out came at the same time this happened. I remember that because I couldn’t be there at the hospital anymore and a friend of the family took me to that instead. I have never cried so hard in my life, especially during the imaginary friend forgetting scene. Despite how rare it is, it’s still awful to experience.
I am so sorry for your loss. That is such a horrible thing to happen. May she rest in peace.
I’m sorry man, I hope you’re alright knowings she’s alright now
I wonder if that friend knew what Inside Out was going to be like. That's almost beautiful although it may not have been pleasant. I think it's one of the best kids films.
that's awful, I'm so sorry you had to go through watching this.
@qxiror shush mate
Kurzgegast animation becomes more and more complex, especially the humans. They have come so far.
ikr? the animation is just mwah
His proclivity to explore is that of an ancient explorer from a principality from circa bce. Yet his tendency of benevolence is that of an ancient explorer from a municipality from circa ad. Nonetheless shall your creative prowess prosper and the tides of history always in your favor.
@Mishan 🅥 🧢
@@Caesar.X 💋
Yees
as someone who grew up fearing brain-eating amoeba, my anxieties are still there.
I remember I thought I had it. I had a banging headache for days after going to the lake. I was so stressed, I didn’t eat for a week. Anything I tried eating, I’d vomit out of stress. It was awful
@@rameygardner4782 maybe you had it, but your body somehow won the battle.
You gonna die from your anxiety before the amoeba get you
@@swamidude2214 idk man, the brain amoeba wouldn't have much to eat. I only contain around 6 brain cells.
@@rameygardner4782 fr same
In the last two weeks, two people in Israel have died from the amoeba. And there are strong suspicions that few others have contracted it too. Considering the (very) low probability so many people will contract the amoeba in such a short time, this is an unprecedented case of mass contraction 😮
I live in Israel and we drink from where they were infected and I’m afraid to drink any water since I don’t want to risk it
Today, most of the drinking water in Israel comes from wells, and not from the kinneret. and anyhow drinking water gets purified before they get to your tap. So don't worry yourself too much! :)
Here in south india too there are some cases
The 2 cases visited a specific water park where the water was probably not chlorinated enough and got contaminated as a result. The ministry of health ordered to shut down the water park after the second case so they can look deepet into the case
@@RahulRaj-w4min Kerala , this virus right ?
So I ordered a poster and while being shipped it got all crumpled and destroyed, so I asked for a new one. When you sent it back you put so much care into your packaging to make sure it wasn’t damaged. I just would like to say thank you for caring so much about your fans!
@eioshen boboi Seriously doubt that it's the disease detailed in the video
@@jamozmynamoz probably
@@jamozmynamoz he's alive so probably a average headache
@eioshen boboi And you felt it necessary to reply to a comment not related to the disease, why? Because you want attention?
@@DBSilver2024 I saw a comment in the comment section about the same thing the person said but extended. I think @eioshen boboi copied a part of it and replied it to this comment for some reason.
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*I had a mysterious brain injury about 5 years ago I got while in rural Mexico, that I believe was due to using a neti pot with warm tap water. I was in pretty bad shape for several* years, and recovery was far slower than I expected. The damage showed up on the MRI, and the attending neurologist believed it was from a pathogen like this. I'm still not 100%, probably about 90% though, which is far more than I thought I'd recover just a few years ago.
Friend of a friend got one of these when I was in college. She'd just gone swimming in a river with some friends, then over the next few days she started to feel feverish, seemed to be dehydrated no matter how much she drank, started to forget things, and was totally incoherent by the time they got her to the hospital. Two days after being admitted, she was gone. Crazy
H-Holy shit... My condolences, that's terrifying.
As Kurg said, naegleriasis (a.k.a. primary amoebic encephalitis) is EXCEPTIONALLY rare, as A LOT of variables have to go perfectly right for you to contract the disease, but if you do have the misfortune of getting it, you are pretty much guaranteed death within a few days to two weeks even with aggressive, early treatment. Scary to think about.
Season 2 of House featured a naegleriasis infection that killed a cop and should have killed Foreman, although it's mode of transmission (aerosolization via a misting spray for marijuana said cop was growing) is unheard of and frankly all but impossible. Frankly, Foreman not only surviving after showing symptoms, but having no neurological issues once cured, is nothing short of miraculous.
@@DerpASherpa117 because most don't know what encephalitis is, in case you're wondering it means swelling of the brain
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@@oliverjade6998 Bruh!!!!!
I remember how in first year of my university, when we were studying amebae, my professor made a presentation specifically about this ameba because a good friend of hers died from it after swimming in a lake. I still think about it a lot
Shit I'm cancelling my swimming today!
@@AyushSharma-vz6eg yeah I'm never ever swimming on hot water ever again I'm going cold
Be aware that the chances of this are EXTREMELY LOW. Do not take my word on this, but the chances of it are below 1%.
When i swim in lakes im making sure its ice cold
@@echstatistic nah bruh im adding 10 pack of ice in it
I just went swimming in the ocean and I accidentally got a bunch of water up my nose. I watched this video absolutely terrified until the end. Thank you for giving me a heart attack. 😭
Noo! Dont worry at all! The bacteria does NOT live in the ocean, since its constantly moving and its salty water! So do not panic!! ^^
@@ldrawss Oh thank the lord 😭
@@ldrawss you mean amoeba
These animations, the 3-d models, the visual storytelling for infection, even the little existential dread skit just to advertise their merch, this is honestly one of the best channels on UA-cam. Y’all deserve all the support and recognition ❤️❤️
I don’t think they use 3D models at all, all the more impressive
@@crep1544 They do, it's just masterfully textured and shaded, so they fit the rest of them perfectly.
That's the paradox of any 3D work - it's only good when you don't notice it's 3D...
@@WwZa7 Even better
@@WwZa7 those super close ups of the face are made in after effects 100%
YES FINALLY A NEW VIDEO
Ah sweet, natural horrors beyond my comprehension
you here?
Yoo joe
IDK why, but i forgot where i coped " kurzgesagt video on the brain eating amoeba" from and it's only been an hour..
Anyways,hi stranger with a verified mark
Joe
any new doubling internet speed hack?
Kurz: It's overhyped
Kurz: [explains exactly why it's so deadly and that there's no cure, ending on a jumpscare]
"oh but don't worry, it barely happens to anyone!"
They said, knowing fully well that every pesron watching the video is gonna think "but what if i'm one of those people?"
Also Kurtz: Explains why its overhyped in that there have only been ~400 documented cases since the early part of the 20th century.
Yes yes indeed existential crisis
I have a high school classmate who was diagnosed with this brain eater a few years ago. He was still alive well despite occasional movement disorders. But I am not sure if he would ever be fully cured.
@@lumanliu8457 I love how there's at least two people who "knows" someone who got infected by this and commented in that sense. With less than 350 cases worldwide in the last 90 years, this is HIGHLY improbable.
I can not get over how much i love the fact they made existential crisis a character in a way
It actually got a good laugh outta me even though im constantly worrying about the unkown
When you think about it, your cells and this amoeba isn't aware of themselves but they actually fight wars like a tower defense game.. Pretty surreal.
You should watch this channel's video called 'Emergence.' It explains how large amount of unconscious beings work together ultimately forming consciousness.
They are "aware "of their surroundings. Just think about it and extrapolate a bit ,we may be part of a cosmic body that is 'super conscious'
Thats a really good idea for a tower defense game
@@softan "They react to their surroundings" Exactly . What do you think your sensory organs are doing ? at the cellular level things are chemical in nature .What you call the 'awareness' of an individual is a cumulative /emergent phenomenon . Or else you should be able to define what an 'awareness' is without going full metaphysics .
Immune System: "Stop this, amoeba! I have the high ground!"
Naegleria fowleri: "You underestimate my power!"
I remember when I was a kid growing up in Florida that in ponds, there were often signs that said not to put your head under the water because of amoeba. I always wonder why. Now, I'll never question them again.
Yup, a girl in my hometown in FL, Courtney Nash, died to an amoeba. Pretty rare and was surprised to see a video on this.
Well it just got more weird because my first name is Nash.
And there’s a street in close by in the town just over called Nash.
@@galacticgalaxyonezerone7235 It's a sign, Nash. Stay out of the water.
@@VigilVII r/thathappened
You guys have grown so freaking much, while horrifying, the quality of the education and cinematography of this video was freaking amazing
I loved the cute animation near the end. Dread was kinda spooky until it started speaking. It was adorable. And the bird excited about all the knowledge available to learn... xD
yeah its so good and very easy to understand
Right? It really shows in this particular video, I feel. I'm glad they're able to do their thing!
Rampant amongst US politics
Ok don't get a hard-on it's only a growing channel so calm down
Oh so THATS why people are hydrophobic, i am one of them now.
Or aquaphobic
dw if you swallow it your fine
Nah that's rabies. Another hellish bacteria
I had a friend's mom scare the crap out of me with this amoeba. Went swimming in a popular lake, and my friend's mom warned us not to get water in our ears or nose. Of course, us being 11, we got water in our ears while trying not to. Panicked and told her mom and she said, "Well, we will see if you live in a week." So for that whole week I was in constant panick of dying.
Why would she do that to a little kid? The chance of all this happening is so remotely small that it's silly to even worry about it
That’s Mama Soprano level of narcissism
A for atrocious parenting.
@@blarfroer8066 until he suddenly dies. Whoops!
I'm in panic without doing any of this
I remember studying for the first time about this amoeba in my Parasitology classes when i was in Med school, and to this day is probably the most frightening microrganism i had read about, it´s just equally concerning the possibility of catching it or having to treat someone with that 93-97 % of fatality. Thankfully in my country this particular amoeba it´s almost immposible to find but in some other countries like the US cases are known to be present. Thanks kurzgesagt for another awesome video, creating awereness, and fuelling nightmares :)
And ur country iiiis?
@@Ugh718 communism is bad
@@Ugh718 I mean if I had to take a wild guess I'd assume somewhere cold, possibly north of Europe?
Please let me know what country you reside in, I gotta move there 😭
Honestly would probably rather have this than rabies. I'd prefer neither tho.
For anyone still worried, they specified that the amoeba can only exist in *dirty* waters. Just don't jump into some random lake or a pool that isn't cleaned out regularly and you're fine. You're not likely to splash around in a spa since you're supposed to be relaxing, not going nuts, and when they say 'high in your nose' they MEAN high in your nose. As in, you can feel it in the bottom of your eyes kind of high. And that's a serious problem all on its own since that probably means you've inhaled some water into your lungs and you've got a DIFFERENT situation going on.
What about summer camp lakes?
Basically, avoid Florida.
@@MikeAJGriffin Yet another reason to avoid Florida.
People like you are the reason i sleep sound at night
@@null1ffy798
I read your reply wrong at first, I thought you wrote “I sleep around at night” totally changed the intended meaning.
I do agree though that OP has provided quite a bit of relief.
Just found this channel and I'm already soo in loveee with it!! Thank you for your hardwork in making this video!! Big applause👏
Rip your free time
This channel is pile of dread shit… there are no solutions
RIP your sense of worth
What do you mean guys
Jesus there’s something frightening about Kurtzgesagt animating “true” humans especially for this video. And holy hell the quality everywhere, anxiety inducing? Yes. Wonderful? Also yes!
Agreed, the humans here are uncanny
*holy hell ?? 😂
@@gonkdroid8279 What? They look awesome! More realistic humans!!!
Honestly I love the humans 😂
@uNnHkP8mza who cares about that the content was amazing, i'm still tripping about what i just saw, the war between microbes is just.. how they kill each other by different methods, i mean, what's the limit there? these creatures seem at least as conscious as insects, the solutions applied from our bodies seem like some you would arrive by conscious thinking about how to solve that issue if you could control different parameters as your body temperature at will, which you can with some effort as proved by wim hoff, my guess is if we would watch these microworlds millions and millions of times more than what we do we'd probably see some spectacular events happen that'd prove beyond doubt the improvisational nature of all biology, probably some would be in that 3% of the infections in which the parasite is defeated once in the brain, if i understood correctly, and what we would see perhaps be the first time a 'new move' is being 'invented' by some single immune cell or bacteria
Huge shoutout to the cells in your body that literally use every strategy in the playbook to keep you alive. It's almost an entire sentience in its own right
They have to keep us alive because if we die they will all die with us
It's a whole other world.
The people who have succumbed to this amoeba had compromised immune systems as a result of the processed foods that they eat and the medications that they take. Healthy people all over the world are constantly exposed to this microorganism and nothing ever happens to them. It is only a handful of people who have weakened immune systems who should worry.
Your body is like a colonial organism. You are made up of trillions of individual cells just going about their life cycles. Eating, expelling waste, reacting to stimuli, replicating, and finally dying.
In fact, in the time it has taken you to read this far millions or more of your own cells, tiny pices of you, have died and their remains are being delt with.
They don't have sentience though so don't feel bad. Your cells are just organic, microscopic machines that just keep running as long as they have fuel to run on.
So we are a massive collection of cells that are all doing their own thing and under that is the immune system which is like a kind of cellular secret police force, Big Brother of your biology. Patrolling and making certain that all your cells are obeying the rules and working together with their neighbors to advance the glorious union called The Body. Do not hoarde resources comrade, everything must be shared equally in the communist society of cells.
What is that over there? A cell has decided that it will not work for the body and instead will look after it's own interests and the interests of its cellular "children". Biological capitalism that we call "cancer" which, if not delt with will mean the collapse and destruction of the entire colony.
And while all of this is going on inside you and me and everyone else, we sit and wonder if we should take the final slice of pizza.
@glenngriffon8032 Communism is just an unattainable dream of the escapist who cannot accept the fact that people are not equal and can never be. The majority of people on this planet refuse to hold themselves accountable for their own actions. This is what makes communism impossible! Do you understand?
There’s a guy in my hometown who had this amoeba 🦠 and survived. Though it chowed a bit of his brain and left him blind on one eye. His one eye looks all white now.
How did that physical change happen in the eye by effecting the brain?
Only four people have survived this which one is the guy in ur hometown?
@@xxan84 Because your eyes are directly connected to your brain obviously, as is your whole brain through all your veins or stems as I think of them, we are all jellyfish (first evolution of amoebas) evolved in different ways and with titan bodies grown and wrapped around us like in attack titan.
@@bigdawgbignuts5006 Well they have to be somewhere don't they lol, I know some people bullshit but most people are being honest pretty much all the time like you probably are
@@BlazeCon97 You are joking right?
Naegleria Fowleri?
Metal bands:
Write that down!
Kurzgesagt: "You're immune to every disease"
Also Kurzgesagt: "Not this one lol"
Well its an amoeba not a bacteria or virus
@@dashfire3185 But the immune system can attack an amoeba as well. We have defenses against larger intruders like parasites too, not only against bacteria or virus. If anything, one of the main reasons this disease is so deadly is the immune system's reaction itself, the video does mention the inflammation in the brain. That's us triggering it, not the amoeba.
The real problem is that our immune response is very strong and destructive and can harm us as well. Now, harm in non vital areas of the body is fine, the cells will regenerate and we'll live on as if nothing ever happened. Harm in our most important areas, like the brain, heart, yeah, that's another story, and it can kill us probably even more easily than the disease itself.
@@dashfire3185 still a disease
Well yes but actually no because the antibodies you have against it get eaten or destroyed once it's in its eating phase (I think that's how it is)
It's not a disease
it's subtle, but 0:31 is such a creative scene. Kurzgesagt has improved with cinematography as well as education
THAT'S WHAT IM SAYING DUDE 10/10
I actually hoping to see a comment like this
yes! the production and quality is so captivating
YES I SAW THAT TOO!
Not tryna to hate but what exactly was subtle?
"This parasite lives in water and will eat your brain!"
"Whelp, I guess I'm never swimming ever again."
"Don't worry! You're more likely to drown than be killed by the parasite!"
"The reasons to never swim again just keep piling up..."
Haha man!
"Nah come on! You're more likely to be eaten by a shark than to drown"
"I don't think you're getting how this works"
@@Roody You're more likely to be crushed by a vending machine than eaten by a shark.
Guess that's good motivation to give up snacks..
@@Roody I do not appreciate your joke because it is factually incorrect
@@IntelligentleMANgief it is probably incorrect, but correction aside, I wanted just to keep the combo going to have a laugh. So, thank you for your opinion/statement, but I don’t really care about it. 😅
i was at high risk for getting this when I went to the natural hot springs in eastern california! I went to the ER after and made a plan for how to get treatment ASAP and try to be one of the 5 people who survived it.
What was the plan if we fellow naegleriaphobes may know?
@@nestor1907 If I wanted to be really cautious, plan was to drive the 5h to a major city with a teaching hospital (SF for me). The key is to get early & aggressive treatment.
But I decided to wait 1-2d to see if my headache would go away, since I was at high altitude.
If I did have it, I probably would have just died in the 1-2d while I was waiting. Sry if that was too morbid.
The tricky thing is to get early & aggressive treatment before you think you need it, since IIRC people usually die within 48h of first symptoms.
Are you survived?@@aok1425
Well, that was horrifying. a small microbe that we interact with pretty often and have little trouble with is basically unstoppable if it gets up your nose, and you won't notice anything wrong until its way too late.........thank god this is rare.
Swimming in the winter would be a lot more common
The rarity and severity of it might be co-related.
God is the one who makes it
If you think that's horrifying, look at sudden cardiac death
@@EHMM God works through nature. If God wants a city destroyed, there will probably a natural disaster.
WOAH the narrator officially got a bird!! Now we know what he really looks like! This last part of the video was so different that what kurzgesagt normally does, and it really cought me off guard, but in a really good way. Thanks for entertaining us again
I don't think that was the narrator, just the same person voicing a different character (the way they talk is different, after all)
@@geli95us you just contradicted yourself
@@____Carnage____ no he didn’t lmao
The narrator is a smol red birb, he shows up in an earlier video called How to Kurzgesagt
9:04 Could you not please 😂😂
Kurzgesagt: “It’s not evil”
Also Kurzgesagt: *Shows it as literally the creature from Carrion*
who said Carrion is evil?
@@NobleUnclean the way I play it is evil as fuck
@@manwhatdoiputhere as it should be
@@NobleUnclean you are forced to play evil
@@NobleUnclean Villains of carrion are the scientists
still water 💀
Those who know☠️
@@rakarahmawan3614Balkan rage 💀
Kurzgesagt explaining 2 things very effectively:
1) I can die of almost anything, even a dip in the pool
2) Considering the size of the universe, time and space, I don't even matter
Yep, this is exactly what I needed at 1:00 AM
But once again, what a fantastic video, thank you so much, guys.
I couldn't have said it better
So true. BRB, quitting my job
I just think about how death is a part of life, the fact that it can happen to anyone, so everyone is living in spite of that, and then how if the universe is indifferent, it isn't actively hostile nor impeding, just more nature.
Wow it's actually 1:am as I am writing this in my Timezone
@Don't click profile photo I am warning u before u regret. Don't click his profile photo.
Daily dose of existential dread! Thank you Kurzgesagt.
More like a monthly dose
@@cubism_2 True
@@cubism_2 Accurate
Lmao
It's that time of the month again
I absolutely love how you can see the animation quality change and improve as you go along the Kurzgesagt video timeline. It means that we're supporting them well enough for them to be able to afford to take more time to put more effort into higher quality videos.
Keep it up guys, we gotta keep them going
the subtle changes in their artstyle and the addition of detailed animated humans is really impressive, they've come a long way
I bought one of the deep sea posters, they are really nice
My thought exactly! every video is better than the other
Still water.
Still water + Balkan rage + Balkan breakfast+ adrenaline + noradrenaline + hawk tuah+ brain eating amoeba + mango mango mango + winter arc+ German stare + those who know ☠️
My supervisor, a young neurosurgeon just in his 30s , passed away due to this . I still remember we all had a pizza party just a day before and the next day he was brought in the ER with seizures. His MRI Brain was so haunting to see .
Could you perhaps describe the brain MRI? Just asking, not compulsory to answer.
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Damn
F rest in pepperoni 🦍
Im so sorry for all you had to see
Seriously, how is it that no one is talking about how exponentially have the videos' animation quality improved in the last couple of months?
Shoutout to the Kurzgesagt's animators' team.
The shot with the moths going towards the lamp really wowed me. The perspective and motion of the moth in the foreground is pretty impressive.
they've started using 3d models which actually look great with the usual style, way better than i expected they would
That's what I thought
been a while since I've seen a vid, instantly recognized the improvement, especially In the boy's water scenes
Even the production quality has gone up. The thrilling music throughout makes it so cinematic and epic
The animations in this one were absolutely stunning (and so was the brain eating disease but that’s a different type of stunning) good job Kurzgesagt
His proclivity to explore is that of an ancient explorer from a principality from circa bce. Yet his tendency of benevolence is that of an ancient explorer from a municipality from circa ad. Nonetheless shall your creative prowess prosper and the tides of history always in your favor.
@@TheYafaShow aaaaaaand your a bot.
Or you copy paste like the topic here
@Mishan 🅥 *BAD CONTENT**
@Mishan 🅥 bot
@Mishan 🅥 also bot
I like how your videos are like an action movie. Especially the dramatic music.
So there's a reason I didn't ask too many questions when I was taken in at the neurological department of my local hospital a few years back. I myself had just come down with a form of Lyme's Disease that lives in the fluids surrounding your brain and attacks the nervous system (great fun, lots of headache and fatigue for about a month and then suddenly half your face is paralyzed), just because I got bit by a minuscule infected arthropod while celebrating my birthday picnicking in the park. I learned that in the next room over was a guy who went swimming one day and ended up in the intensive care ward for about a week on life support because he was paralyzed from head to toe and so couldn't breathe and hardly pump his own blood.
At that point I decided I'd try to avoid learning about too many neurological diseases because there's a terrifying amount of them, there's basically nothing you can do to stop them, and holy crap the effects are always _extreme._
real life spider man result
@@spacedued4921 lol
how are you doing now?
Fortunately, we do have a cure for rabies, which is also a neurological disease. The way that it's treated is a lot different compared to other diseases.
You see, rabies has a fairly large "incubation" period. You become infected with rabies when an infected mammal bites you and passes it to you through their saliva. At that point, the virus stays inside of the afflicted tissue - be it the arm, leg, ect. The virus can't do anything outside of your brain, so it has to multiply and reach your brain through your nervous tissue, which can take days, weeks... in rare occasions, years. If the virus is not in the brain, it is harmless. Once it reaches the brain, it is 100% fatal for the host.
The way rabies is cured is through a rabies vaccine... after the host is infected! This is in contrast to other vaccines, in which they're given before any infection takes place. But with the vaccine, if the host takes the vaccine before rabies reaches the brain... it is 100% curable. So, basically rabies is either 100% fatal or 100% curable.
From what I've noticed, neurological parasites are very vulnerable outside of the brain and can't do anything until they reach it, where the journey to the brain usually takes days. This means that we could very likely create cures for these diseases after somebody is exposed like with rabies, which would be extremely safe given the parasites literally cannot do anything to your body if they're not in your brain.
It's important to note however that certain people who are within constant contact with animals (such as veterinarians) are given rabies vaccines prior to any infection to protect them. This means we could probably also give vaccines for common neurological diseases before any contact with the pathogen occurs, if we figure out how to make vaccines for them.
I love the massive upgrade in quality
Remember me when this comment gets famous
it's scary, like they beat every other video of theirs and they constantly set the bar high. I fear for the next 3 years. Like, how far would the quality be..
Nice
Bien
I've always appreciated the progress in the quality of the animation that this channel has shown, and this video just amazes me in how good it looks. A bow to the team.
comment something new dude. we all know (including kurzgesagt) that their animation quality is brilliant.
@@theanirudhagnihotri after all, commenting isn't supposed to be posting something very creative, it's telling what you think of the video. And that person didn't even ask for likes or anything! I don't see a single problem with that comment being how it is.
@@great_hedgehog8199 no...you're right. actually, i got pissed off seeing the same comments in every kurzgesagt video, and i'm not blaming u for that. u're doing ur thing as a viewer. but.....u know......mood swings......
sorry for that if u felt bad.
@@theanirudhagnihotri You are kind
@@theanirudhagnihotri Nah, everything's alright, I'm actually happy to see you are such a nice person
Still Water.
Lost my classmate to this, poor dude was not even 21 when he died. He had graduated early and was honestly one of the most fit person I know.
sorry about that, but wtf? That’s ridiculously unlucky
@Mishan 🅥 🗿
RIP dude had negative luck
I’m sorry for your loss dude.
@@OneFinalAutumn i feel bad for him, life is strange too
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This is a historical moment never seen before in history. The narrator finally expresses the emotion of happiness
Truly a legendary moment 🥹
@Jimmy Jim Bonnyismydoggy does too.
it never happens ye
for real.. that's so cool
had this amoeba once. poor fella died of hunger
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took a min to realize
Don't get it sorry. Can someone explain?
@@Zourq he wanted to say that he doesn't have a brain, and so the bacteria won't have anything to eat
The narrator has been a bird this WHOLE TIME?!
Lmao 💀
Didn't expect to see you here!
Always has been
Lol
Best plot twist
Steve Taylor portrayed as a cute bird is the most wonderful thing I've seen in a while. It almost has a lip sync, I rejoiced as soon as I saw it. Definitely a cool addition!
ok government (thanks for the high quality animation!) we need another fake vaccine for this problem too.......4 or 8 doses
I think this cute bird portrays the viewer, not the narrator. Steve Taylor is a round red bird, accompanied by smaller red birbs, he can be seen at 10:03 .
@@hlibushok actually its the dark purple birb as seen in various plushie designs and seen in videos past the rest of the birbs are the team and various scientists that work together
@@talkinggallade5796 Just watch the "How to Kurzgesagt" video. The dark purple birb you're saying about, is probably the Duck, and the Duck is just a mascot.
Let's sit back and admire the amount of improvement Kurzgesagt made creating this video!! 0:31 blew me away with the improvement of human anatomy/style!
3:38 such beautiful animation
9:39 I am in awe 0:
You and your Team are doing so well!! Thanks a bunch for this scary informative video💙
Yes everyones little birdies has grown up :D
I was going to say the same thing :3
theyre starting to master CGI animation
This might take some time to get used to, but it is some really great animation.
It's that blur effect
Hey everyone! I read many comments and stories and I just wanna clarify a bit since I have some knowledge on this topic!
So this disease is very rare! Theres an average of 1-3 cases in the US a year, but still the chances are never zero!
If you were swimming in the ocean and got water up your nose, you absolutely dont need to worry! Ocean water contains salt and is constantly on the move which isnt stable conditions for the amoeba to breed. (Speaking from personal experience since I've always got ocean water up my nose everytime and im fine)
Even in your shower or bath, the chances are slimmer than a lake or pool, but still if you feel symptoms like: neck stiffness, headache, fever, nausea, vomiting or dizziness, please check with a doctor!
You can avoid this by just wearing nose plugs or not diving underwater!
Just dont be reckless and jump in abandoned pools like I've seen some videos of people doing! This disease is not a joke and if you spot it too late, you're done for!
If you have any questions or scenarios please ask away, ill try my best to answer them! :)
I’m in a hotel resort in Mexico Cancun and they have a bunch of pools here and I accidentally got water in my nose and I want some verification to be sure I’ll be fine
Well mexico has hit climate which is a breeding ground for it BUT it is very very rare if the pools are well maintained! If they are im pretty sure you will be fine, but if you feel any of the symptoms I listed in the comment please check with a doctor in the early stages of symptoms do not brush it away :)
@@bb_5520Hi! Mexico is a warmer climate which increases risk, but if the pools are very well maintained im sure the chance is very low! Id still say check with a doctor before its too late, but im sure it will be okay!
@@ldrawsshey uh I sniffed water twice on my friend’s swimming pool, he says it has chlorine in it but I really don’t believe it. I live in the Midwest so please tell me if I should be concerned?
I swear I saw at least 20 people under these comments saying “I know someone who died from this“ like
You guys had me panicking about my tropical vacation next year. This was the scariest thing I've watched on UA-cam!
Glad it's not as common as you were making it seem at the start of the episode!
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It said ‘overhyped’ for a reason!
@Mishan 🅥 you ain’t even a youtuber or actively make videos
@Mishan 🅥 You don't.
Not wrong i also remember swimming in pools
I know someone who's girlfriend died from this, it's no joke I'll never forget his words. "To see someone go from perfectly functional and happy go to the level of dementia and worse in the course of 3 days..."
Terrible. I'm sorry for him
That's so sad.. :(
I doubt it very much
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@@Gooner184 You doubt...what?
If you ever feel like giving up, remember your immune system military that does absolutely everything with pure intention of saving your life... with unwavering perseverance
The immune system does not save us, but itself)
@@hibahprice6887except our immune system is part of us, one facet of a whole that can't function if incomplete. Our immune system is US - macrophages, neutrophils, WBCs, these are OURs.
We are saving ourselves.
@hibahprice6887 it has to save us to save itself
@@hibahprice6887immune system literally putting themselves on danger for us. And some of them are suicidal, killing the virus/bacteria by killing themselves.
@@hibahprice6887bro some of them literally destroyed themselves on an attempt to destroy the virus.
STILL WATER THOSE WHO KNOW
Explanation in the comments 💀
I have three things to say:
1. Your animation has gotten so much better! This episode just looks GORGEOUS
2. You've effectively scared me away from lakes and seas and the sort for a long, long time
3. The last bit about the existential dread is so good, if I had any money I'd be shopping on your website right now!
I love this channel so much
I think it just lives in fresh water, so seas should be fine right?
@Don't click profile photo shut up rickroller
Okay they don't like salt so we can play in the ocean...till we see another microorganism that just as horrifying that lives at sea
They said fresh water, Ocean/Sea water is safe due to the salt content.
You know, I was just about to comment about the amazing animation and art style.
This featured in a major plot arc of House, M.D. when one of the doctors contracted nigleria while investigating the source of the amoeba. Turns out it came from the rainwater tank being used to water a cannabis grow. Really a terrifying illness (and obscure enough for a mystery).
I was ready to bet my house that someone would make a comment about drhouse.... So damn predictable
the "pain with no relief" part was particularly terrifying
Did he die?
@@legitpancake4276 the patient died, foreman was saved but had a brain biopsy, and was injured
Why does it have to sound like the name of my country, Nigeria? I don't like that. We have enough issues here adding a horrifying amoeba to it makes it even more horrifying. Please, they should look for another medical name for it.
the timing of this is actually insane, I've been spending a few days trying to find scientific background for an infection based apocalypse to build my new story around! this seems spooky enough and yet not too otherworldly to work super well with the tone I had in mind (and the stuff I already have)! gonna do some more research on this and take some artistic liberties to fit it to my setting but I think this is pretty much it!
also great work as always
Sounds cool! Share It when you're done :)
That's so cool! Good luck with the story! :D
You could throw in something about rising water temperatures accelerating the growth/geographical-spread/evolution of the bug. Maybe also jump to mammal saliva (with all those mouth nerves) and infect humans through pets. Just brainstorming.
Oo sounds fun good luck with your endeavors.
You could include global warming as a factor for its spread. Considering it strifes in heat this may not even be too far fetched.
I just love how Kurzgesagt acknowledged the existential dread and gave us tips on how to defeat it.
If you look up photos of Naegleria fowleri, it looks like a screaming clown.
Now you comment about it, it does look like a clown when I searched in Google images 😲
Possum!? You here!?
What kind of scary-ass clowns came to your birthday?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Looked it up, you're wrong. It looks like the scream
The visuals are mesmerizing. At this point, I'm having trouble following the narration of the video as I am just sitting here in awe of the absolute perfection of your color choice, animation, composition and utilization of depth of field. Especially the amoeba's journey to the brain is on another level!
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I keep coming back and watching this video for the same reason. ✌️
True
I got to see a slide of brain material from a N. fowleri patient in a parasitology class and I've never seen such destruction on a slide before. Truly eye opening stuff!
Oh, well, I knew I wasn't gong to be sleeping after seeing the video anyway, so I'm going to take your cheerful little side-note in stride. I may allow myself one shudder.
Parasitology has got to be the most terrifying academia.
I like to joke microbiology (and parasitology) are some of the scariest topics in science but immunology makes you feel a lot better. If you want some other scary parasitic diseases check out Acanthamoeba keratitis, toxoplasmosis, and loa loa filariasis.
What did it look like?
That sounds pretty cool actually, microscopic warfare is rad
i had brain eating amoeba once.poor fella died of hunger.
Just imagine how destructive this thing must be that it has to grow extra mouths just so it can eat more brains.
Zombie
@@axis367 No..?
9:40 This bird is precious and needs to be protected from existential dread at all costs.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes perfect sense that humans, who are not aquatic organisms, would not have a defense against another aqautic organism our bodies rarely come in contact with.
Yeah, that's the thing with pathogens that cross a barrier. They're either awful at infecting you because you're not their usual host, like Anisakis worms, or super good at it because your body lacks a lot of the proper defenses at first, like this Amoeba.
I should also point out that sea lampreys might try to suck from a human, but they stop once they taste blood. Their designated prey is fish.
I dunno about "makes sense" our ancestors, at least once, were sea creatures.
@@Tao_Tology Our ancestors were marine life forms is the key part.
@@Mike_Jones281 That's......the opposite of what you said.
now this is why you should allways hold your nose when jumping into any kind of pool / ocean
Well, one of the reasons. If you get the amoeba up there, that's not going to be your only problem.
@@aidenninetyninewhat or the other reasons😊
Love how your videos have increased in quality, complexity and research. One of the best channels on UA-cam!
If not the best
You're speaking to a team of people though. Probably a very large team
@Mishan 🅥 no, i do
His proclivity to explore is that of an ancient explorer from a principality from circa bce. Yet his tendency of benevolence is that of an ancient explorer from a municipality from circa ad. Nonetheless shall your creative prowess prosper and the tides of history always in your favor.
@@AverageAlien “your” is used with a person or a group of people
I watched your video a few days ago, and today I read on the news that a 30+ year old woman died from this amoeba in Taiwan (where I currently live). She went to an indoor pool during July 21st to July 24th, and on the 26th she started having headaches, neck stiffening, and fever. She passed away on August 1st.. it sent chills down my spine. I shared your video to my family and friends, but too bad it doesn't have Traditional Chinese subtitles. I sure hope one day someone could help translate your videos so more people can benefit from these useful information. Thank you very much for making this video, you did an excellent job! Thank you.
現在有中文CC字幕了，不知道是發生事件後才有還是原本就有？總之非常感謝大家幫忙翻譯～！🙏
應該是事後~因為我上週看是沒有的
I watched this vid before that, and then found out about the woman😅
我经常去野河游泳，好担心
It now has traditional Chinese subtitles
One day my friend that uses twitter was infected with this brain-eating amoeba, it was very sad, the amoebas died from hunger days later.
despite the horror of this thing, you make it seem funny
congrats
@@ProfessionalBugLover hes saying twitter users dont have a brain 🤣.... Right?
@@ProfessionalBugLover he was joking that twitter users don't have a brain
@@ProfessionalBugLover they couldn't find the brain cells
LOL
Well I haven't been in a pool or lake in years but this is a good way to keep me from ever going into one again.
I love how the ending has been tailored to soothe people from entering into depression from existential threat.
Yeah, kurzgesact knows how to structure their videos. If that was on the start, it will probably be forgotten over the recent horror they heard
well... it still lefto some 0.01% existential dread since there is always an extremely small possibility to catch that amoeba
Your comment should be the one with 16000 likes instead of the guy that totally missed the point
I really like the dramatic music that's playing in the background of this video. Almost felt like a movie. Whoever composed the score for this did a great job.
Between that and the quasi-3D animation, I can tell the production value is only going up. Kurzgesagt always gets better.
The composer is Epic Mountain Music, they made every soundtrack you hear on Kurzgesagt videos, you should definitely check out their channel.
This does beg a question in my mind. We know humans can only get it when water with the amoeba in it gets pushed pretty far up the nose. However, we're not the only mammals that swim. Are there instances of other animals getting these infections? I'm genuinely curious.
Just assuming but 380 something cases in decades is a very low number. Animal health is not studied as extensively as humans, marine animals or fishes have probably evolved to be resistant to these organisms from centuries of evolution. So that just leaves out humans who choose to swim and any other land animal that chooses to swim without already knowing how to which is basically a miniscule fraction of animals. All of this is just a hypothesis. Maybe if humans choose to move to water indefinitely our body may adapt to this but in my experience i rarely see a lion go for a swim in the neighborhood swimming pool.
Yes, all mammals that have a similar nose to us can get it, but since it is so rare and hard to detect on an animal (you probably won't take a monkey to the hospital for a headache), there are almost none documented instances
Mammals aren't too different from us, I guess it's possible. Considering how rare it is and how fast it kills I doubt we will ever see it in the wild.
Most animals that are not adapted for an aquatic lifestyle usually seldom go out swimming, meanwhile those who are adapted to it often have "nose closing" mechanisms.
Even through the human nose, water only hardly gets in and when it get's in it usually hurts, so we usually want to avoid pushing water far up our nose.
If there are, we don't know of any. Curious to think about though.
This is a good question. I just looked into a bit, and apparently, cases have been observed in cattle and tapirs, but it doesn't affect dogs for some reason. Also some experimenters were apparently sadistic enough to test it on mice and confirmed they can also be infected.
“wow i sure love swimming”
brain eating amoeba: “are you sure about that”
You can still swim in oceans without amoebas lol
Real takeaway from this: protect your nose.
Olfactory nerve array is one of the few shortcuts that bypasses the majority of defensive measures that usually stops most incursions to your single most important organ. It's essentially your brain seeping out a bit to sense outside world there(same as eyes, but you are inclined to protect the eye more, and you do get more physical distance for the invaders to traverse. Ears are airgapped ish). Don't pick your nose(may push contaninants deeper), don't remove nose hairs(removes first line of defense against nasal cavity. Also risk of inflammation), Don't submerge the entire nasal cavity(you'll instinctly avoid it most of the time I guess. If not - you should be exhaling very slowly through your nose to keep the water out). PROTECT YOUR NOSE.
don’t pick your nose? no
@@cupknee DONT Pick it with your finger at least, use a sanitized cotton stick or saline nasal wash
If I don't remove my nose hairs, I'll end up tripping over them.
@@ec8107 ????
Had me until you told me not to pick my nose
Having read Immune really added to this video. Instantly recognizing each cell and their functions truly emphasized the horror of seeing a neutrophil brushed off without a second thought.
@IIReeperCreeperII They are basically your body's equivalent of shock troopers / suicide bombers. They get deployed when your immune system wants something dead fast without any concern for collateral.
I’m in the same boat because I’ve seen Cells at Work!
I was half-expecting the neutrophil cell to be a bleak white anime guy with a knife in this video.
@IIReeperCreeperII Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell. They make up about 50-70% of white blood cells and are one of the first immune cells to attack intruders, generally destroying them via phagocytosis (essentially eating them).
lmao this dude thinks watching anime is the same as reading a book
@@its_drez Cells at Work is surprisingly detailed. I'm not sure about the anime, but the manga at least has a fairly detailed description of what cells do as they are introduced. Obviously not as detailed as Immune, tho.
This is more horrifying, terrifying, and petrifying than any horror movie. The scariest part is that its all real.
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I went swimming in a lake almost 2 weeks ago and I'm watching this with a headache, great timing :D
so basically this amoeba is the embodiment of "Jokes on you i am into that shit"
underrated comment
Pretty much I'm really pursuing a career as a comedian.
Goddamn extremophiles
Yes😂
Probably better as a meme
Body(more like immune system): Oh no! We have an unidentified disease,Ramp up the temperature!
The unidentified disease A.K.A Amoeba: Jokes on you i am into that shit
Though this is probably better
Immune system: Ramp up the temps! We have amoeba
Amoebae: jokes on you i am into that shit
One of my favorite professors in Medical School loved to talk about this Amoeba in particular. One advice he always gave us was to always blow air out of your nose or at least pinch it close whenever you go diving/jumping into water. It’s pretty rare to get infected by these bugs as the video said, but still a fascinating subject nonetheless!
thank you for the tip!
Nose plugs and scuba masks also help!
If you don’t feel loved just remember your immune system will do everything it can to protect you
Remember me when you get famous
It can’t beat this
@@Paper_plane-tthe comment was 9 months ago
@@jffstick1102lol
sometimes it kills you, but lets not talk about that.
If you pause at the precise moment during transition at 6:44 and try to focus on the image it looks like it's moving, I think it's the simulated depth of field causing my eyes to have trouble deciding on a focal length, creating an illusion of movement, it's trippy.
This comment is very late to the game, but if someone stumbles upon it, give it a shot and let me know how it goes.
p.s. don't look at it for too long, it gave me a headache.
I'd love a similarly themed video on rabies. Truly a horrific virus
Second this. Also I'd imagine Kurzgesagt will make a zombie themed animation for that episode. Truly horrific virus indeed
Read that as 'babies'... still applicable though lol
yes please, the real zombie virus!
Now this is an good topic
Yes!!
as someone who lives with brain damage, topics that revolve around attacking brain matter are a very sensitive and nauseating topic for me. So to hear there's a micro-organism that is so perfectly adapted (through sheer chance it seems) for attacking the brain directly is extremely harrowing.
And the worst of all is that because it is a neglected disease in practically all countries, it would only become the target of research for possible cures and vaccines with a large number of deaths worldwide. And another aggravating factor is that, as this amoeba is already adapted to the human immune system, probably the only way to fight it would be with intense gene therapy in people already infected, or by creating embryos in the laboratory that are already resistant to this microorganism. In either case, it would be expensive, no doubt unethical, and very distressing.
Oh god. I'm sorry for you dude
Same with me I have a chronic undiagnosed head problem, which is why I clicked on this video. I was paranoid every night doing research and thinking there were bugs in my brain and that I will die anyday, to the extent of dreaming about it multiple times. But you can't live in fear. Hopefully it's just chronic not deadly or progressive. Glad to be alive.
Well it doesn’t effect me, I have no brain.
As someone who literally just finished a Microbiology exam which involves pathogenesis and the immune system, very interesting to see the pathogenesis of this amoeba, and thinking about the steps in which it can avoid complement activation and antibodies. I wonder if the mechanisms are similar to what I learned, does it use a protease? Are there any surface proteins that mimic regulatory proteins? Fc receptors? So many questions!
You may have already seen it, but there's a link in the description to their list of sources! It looks like they've cited two papers discussing that subject, both quoted as saying the amoeba "internalizes the antigen-antibody complex" -- if that sounds like it's on the right track, you should totally check them out :)
Also read their book, it's amazing
NF has got super amped up phagocytosis machinery
Your curiosity is sensationa
you like to show off your knowledge huh?