This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
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The white death has haunted humanity like no other disease following us for thousands, maybe millions of years. In the last 200 years it killed a billion people - way more than all wars and natural disasters combined. Even today it’s the infectious disease with the highest kill count.
But what is this horrible disease?
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If you want to learn more about tuberculosis and the folks working to fight it, check out the organization Partners in Health at pih.org/programs/tuberculosis
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@@UTTPRichBitcoinman what the hell
nice
for a second at the start I thought steve was leaving
Thank god he's not leaving, he's the iconic voice of Kurzgesagt
that wouldve been bad
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@@UTTPRichBitcoinman yo drake one of yo shit missing
@@ThatInsaneGamer-hp4gh its probably just rage bait
"4000 people died of TB, yesterday" is one hell of a statement
Too few for this overpopulated clown planet
It is almost the same number with diarrhea, however diarrhea can be combated with access to drinking water and basic sanitation, something that we should all have access to.
@@firestarter6039 Oh man. I love diarrhea. It's great.
4000 is too few in this overpopulated planet
@@null-Oh-6666do you want to volunteer to leave the planet?
My great-grandmother died of TB. My grandpa made it his mission to eradicate TB and dedicated all his life to it. He helped many people but I think he knew that he didn't succeed in his lifetime. I hope one day soon TB will be a horrible memory of the past and no longer something we have to live with in the present or future.
Yayyyy😭
these bots are insane look at the stinking details that are coming up with!!!
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@AlwaysWatchingUA-cam fr
My man Arthur died to TB 😢
He didn't die to TB, but it definetly..."helped"
@@figard9855depends on the ending though
@@figard9855wow dude you're like so edgy and cool
God dammit, thanks for the Spoiler
@@Thesweetestboyintown whats your problem man? Did I do something wrong? Im sorry I'm not english, I dont know if saying that TB helped to kill a character is edgy lmao
How to make a Kurzgesagt video:
Step 1: Existential crisis
Step 2: Hope
Step 3: More existential crisis
‘Kurz gesagt in a nutshell’ in a nutshell💀💀
I like to think of it like this:
1. "Ok, here's how screwed we are."
2. "But wait, we can fix this."
3. "Just because we _can_ fix it, doesn't mean we _are_ fixing it, though."
I animate better than Kurzgesagt no offense.
Bro he animates like this by choice@@alexthemovie
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Watching this with a chest infection is not good for the blood pressure
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Thought about testing for it? Just in case... Wouldn't be a problem if you caught the zombie virus since you already developed a cure for it.
YEP, I am not sharing this one with my gf with hypochondria that just leaved a covid infection
@@elpred0 yeah, save that one for later
oof
Currently fighting this disease. Got it in February, completing my dose in like 2 months. It sucks.
At the onset, I woke up at 4am unable to breathe. I had to gasp hard and deep to get some air in. Went to the hospital, quickly got oxygenated. Then they did some tests. Confirmed I had it, then started medication soon after. Been feeling better since then. It was scary though.
Must be rough.
Good luck, wishing you the best
I hope you continue to improve- it sounds frightening.
Jfc, I hope you make a full recovery soon, that's terrifying.
Grandma got TB during WWII, almost killed her. She had fever for years as a child and was left with permanent lung damage.
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@@DOKIDOKILITERATURECLUB858 Stop complaining and enjoy the tits
My microbiology professor said he believes the reason we're not freaking out over it is because the media doesnt bring it up on everyones radars and its a slower death so its not as shocking to people
It's a good thing that John speaks up about it as much as he can.
@@UTTPRichBitcoinman reported
Yeah... Covid comes to mind
@@idk-ill-figure-smn-out woosh
Reminds me a little of the fear around nuclear power. People are afraid of it because they're afraid of another Chernobyl, when the reality is that we could have a meltdown akin to Chernobyl at least once every decade and it would still not kill as many people as coal plants do. And that's just counting the deaths directly resulting from living or working in or near the plant itself, not global warming.
As soon as you see the words "disease" and "John Green" you know it's gonna be about TB. Man picked the biggest villain out there to be his arch nemesis.
exactly my thought. clicked on the video with no idea what disease it was about, but as soon as john green was called over to speak, i had my bets on TB xD
Yeah, health terrorism works well...
It's OUR arch nemesis. All of ours. I wish I could do something about it.
I thought it was gonna be cancer
@@adamk.7177… it’s 100% curable & there’s a vaccine for it. My mom had it years ago & she got cured of it after spending 2 months in the hospital undergoing treatment for it. there’s nothing to be worried about this disease
9:51 "The white death has been with us for millions of years, its time to continue our jouney, without it." ✍️🔥🔥🔥
Chef John 🔥
Lmao
"Aww, how cute, they gave John Green his very own birdsona"
OH, that's a whole-ass man.
I animate better than Kurzgesagt no offense.
@@alexthemovie okay, but this isn’t gonna promote your content easily. You should just make more vids.
@@alexthemovie Ah another comment spammer. At least you're not telling someone to go kill themselves, but begone
keep on reporting all the spam bots and do not respond to them.
@@peacejoylove4118 ok
My grandfather had tuberculosis at 84 years old and survived, he turned 89 in the 22nd of this month
God bless him. ❤
That's great
Doesn't bacteriophage work against tb.
congrats to ur grandpa!
Now that’s a real achievement for him! He also could have very possibly also been carrying it in its inactive state for many decades which could possibly have been for most of his lifetime!
I am watching this while mourning for a friend who passed away by TB. As a person looking for going into medical, this is helpful knowlrdge.
I'm a doctor in Kenya and I deal with TB every day. I find it incredulous when I'm involved in discussions of respiratory illnesses on an international level and it's primarily COPD, pneumonia or COVID when TB has been killing my people for decades with minimal innovation in the field. I really appreciate the awareness this video is bringing to the plight that plagues billions, particularly in Africa and Asia. Kudos to PIH for the work you do.
Keep up the good fight, doctor.
Kudos to YOU, for your work, much respect, just wanted so say that. I hope this video will raise awereness and help with the situation.
That's because there isn't enough money in it, unlike the covid, political & corporate scams which are responsible for the largest wealth transfer in history.
You're not a doctor stop pretending 😂
wishing you stength anfd a better response from the international community. Know that many of us want what you d but our leaders are too big, too far, and sometimes too corrupt for our wishes to be heard and actioned
"Our friend John Greene..."
Oh, it's gonna be Tuberculosis.
I called it just from the title.
That was also my first though. “Oh yay, the tuberculosis episode”
Lol
What's the relation between him and TB?
@drakolax John Green is a major advocate of access to TB treatment, and spreading awareness of TB's spread, and lack of equal access to treatment, is one of his personal missions.
I was so happy to hear the 'antibiotic apocalypse' motif reappear, it was such a favorite of mine when it came out 8 years ago! The soundtracks for these continue to be perfect. It was also quite nice having a guest speaker, he did a great job for covering this serious yet often forgotten topic.
I was diagnosed with Tuberculosis last month. Wasn't sure if I should've watched this video but it was really informative!
I’ll pray for healing and strength through this man, I’m sorry to hear that. Glad it’s informative though!
I'm just happy that finally someone addressed this ghost of a disease before I die. I fought for 3 years and now almost all the drugs are resistant for me. It turned into XDR or TDR they say. I don't know how much time I have left to be alive. Thank you so much John for speaking up.
Edit: I meant I'm still on drugs trying to fight with an additional antibiotic. But it might resist to the antibiotic as well. And the patient can survive 3-4 years last thing I read about it. So I appreciate the everyone but I'm still fighting. Thank you so much.
Oof I don't even have anything to say, just try to be happy and spend your time left well
I am so sorry to hear that, hope you make the best out of your final time here on earth and that you are grateul for the life you got ❤
I hope that even if you don't make it, your remaining time will be an amazing time.
Were proud of u for fighting!!!❤️❤️
thank you for your comment being so boring to the toddlers that they didn’t invade this comment
I worked with a Canadian guy who caught TB when he was in his late 20s. Before he got sick he was a competitive bodybuilder. I saw photos of him from those days and he was HUGE, a massive man with the biggest muscles all over his body. I couldn’t believe it was the same person because when I met him he was as scrawny as a scarecrow. He said the disease consumed his body like it was eating breakfast. Even after being fully cured he couldn’t put on muscle again.
Why it was called consumption.
Yup that's one of the observations I've had too. And still doctors haven't figured why it happens
@@ExileCestusyes they do it’s all very clearly documented medical science
Tell him to try steroids that will help him put on muscle.
maybe he can try and build a little body fat so he can start again you can't build muscle without saved up energy to burn it takes a lot of power
This is what happened to Arthur Morgan😔
And a billion real human beings.
Who cares about the billion real people who had it, the only one who matters is a fictional character, amirite?
Excellent episode - thanks! And it's SO refreshing to hear someone who makes the distinction between "bacterium" and "bacteria"!!!!
Some context: in the Netherlands we swear with diseases a lot. I once got annoyed about something and swore with cancer. A friend of mine got angry about that and told me I shouldn't swear with cancer when there's a lot of people dying from it. I then checked if "tering" (tuberculosis) was okay, and he said yes.
I pointed out TB had killed a lot more people and he responded with "yeah but that was in the past, and cancer is still around"
It never ceases to amaze me how few people know TB is still killing so many people in our modern times.
I have lost many family members to cancer.
You have my full permission to use the word however you like. Your friend's opinion is...ahem...cancer. 😅
imo it's because it's mostly non existent in the "first world countries" aka white people, so it doesn't get much press
I never heard of it since the Victorian era
I figured it wasn't eradicated, but... There has to be some reason people were obsessed with it then and not now
Like 90% of Dutch swear words are horrible illnesses 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
I'm sorry, but this has got to be one of the funniest things I have ever heard of. I'm picturing someone dropping a pencil or something and going 'ah tuberculosis' I cannot stop laughing I am dying
But yeah, really strange how people think it's been eradicated when it's still so prevalent
The crocodile analogy is really good.
A practiced and effective predator that has survived for a long time
And super stealthy too
@@UTTPRichBitcoinmanbruh tf, it is wrong
@@dragonmoonwave Just report and move on, almost certainly a troll or bot
@@UTTPRichBitcoinman reporting you again
@@dragonmoonwave bots have no sense of morality, just report it to hell
I lost one of my best friends to this disease. We used to ride horses together, skinning animals and robbing banks.
“Dutch I gave you all I had”
red dead redemption?
Amazing work. I've worked in the field of Tuberculosis in South Africa and this calibre of awareness raising is critical both in countries with endemic TB problems and in countries with the capacity to fund research and treatment.
I dated someone who was a son of a US diplomat and he had lived in Singapore before he moved back to the US. He told me he has TB in his blood but it's "dormant." I was a bit jolted by the revelation but he assumed me as long as he wasn't coughing blood or anything, I was good. This was over 20 years ago. I hope TB is eradicated soon. 4000 people daily is too many.
I had it as a child. I still test positive on every screen
I had it a month before covid started , took me 1 year to fully recover .😢 My weight went from 65 to 45 kg.
@@UTTPRichBitcoinmanImmature
@@timppasaunoo3582 Did you report them?
Ok Sherri thanks for sharing that with us
I lost my mother to TB this year. She was 54. We're in Europe. She had all the antibiotics available and administered to her, and it wasn't enough. TB is still very much a deadly and dangerous foe, even if you have the meds to fight it. Fingers crossed for a better future.
Keep it up bro. God bless. ❤
Yeah, sadly as the example shown, our immune system goes crazy and kills us before the medicine can do it's thing.
My condolences friend ❤
It is all due to human selfishness. Drugs are not distributed to poorer countries, leading the disease to infect more and evolve. After a while, it spreads to developed nations and everyone is worse off because people are selfish. The exact same thing happened with covid vaccines. We will keep getting new and worse diseases while people don't realize that a disease in a poor country is an epidemic or pandemic waiting to happen in the entire world. We need global efforts to give free access to medicine for every country in the world. We will not solve diseases if people can't afford treatment and spread them everywhere.
I'm so very sorry for your loss!
I don't think they could have explained this better, the visualization and symbolization is amazing, and I'm glad this is getting the attention it definitely deserves
Living in India, i see cases of TB every single day.
As a radiologist, the exposure to reporting cases of TB is so common, that some days this is the only disease I see in a day.
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@@xyrongonzalez3833 how is he a bot just cuz hes from india
@@xyrongonzalez3833in a previous comment he said that he's a Biochemist, in this comment he's saying he's a radiologist. LoL
@@iftikhar-ii7cy you can be both? maybe? (no, you're right!))
@@WizardOfCuz99 no it is, look at the profile
My dad worked in a TB research lab back in the 70's and 80s. It was an outbuilding far away from the research hospital it was part of. When it finally closed down, they poured accelerant all through it and burned it *multiple* times, knocked it down, salted the earth with chemicals it and then buried it under concrete just to be sure. That sh*t is seriously hard to kill.
Overkill
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@@KAIYFGA32Wow you don’t even know why your content is better. It probably isn’t.
John Green is going to personally eliminate TB, and I'm here for it.
Same, godspeed to him
isnt malaria the most deadly disease?
@@alexthemovienice joke
Kills so many ppl it has a hard time spreading, etc
Didn't expect to see you here, can't wait for another 2 hour banger on a topic that I never thought I'd actually be interested in
My dad actually got active tuberculosis. The recovery took quite some time, and the medication was also pretty heavy.
Been following Nerdfighteria and Padtners in Health fighting against TB since the start. This is the additional platform and explanation I didn't know I needed
My wife is an internist at a TB hospital and particularly works with patients with patients infected with antibiotic resistant TB. And since I take great interest in her work I have 2 messages that should be added here:
1) mass screening. The USSR was very limited in it's medical resources and sort of backwards in developing meds, however it successfully fought and pushed back TB by mandatory mass screenings. Children were tested in schools, adults in annual worker health tests. Doctors, militiamen and inmates were being screened twice as often. After the dissolution of the USSR the screening system became defunct and stayed that way over a decade which has lead to a massive rise in TB cases across the former soviet republics and some of Eastern Europe (now it's back under control). So mandatory mass screening is the way to go.
2) The 80s and 90s saw a wide and easy access to antibiotics. Many doctors would prescribe them left and right while many patients were never informed of the dangers of not sticking to the instructions. This lead to many antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria developing. That includes TB. So the lesson here is - don't use antibiotics anytime you're just slightly under the weather. Use antibiotic only if prescribed by a medical professional and take the FULL COURSE EVEN IF YOU GET BETTER SOONER!!! Otherwise next time you'll get in real trouble we won't have any meds that can help you.
Also don't ask for them if they aren't necessary. That's a big problem in the US - people want to use everything they can get their hands on to fight just a headcold, and they think antibiotics is going to help. A lot of doctors seem to cave to this kind of pressure and write prescriptions, but then people start feeling better and they chuck the prescription before the 10 or so days are up.
@@dvdmon in my country it has became incredibley rare for them to give antibiotics until you're in the hospital or despiretely need it
@@ShifterKeegan good thing. Could be it's gotten better here as well, I just remember a lot of people talking about this not long ago - maybe 10-20 years ago, so hopefully there's been enough education and doctors feel more empowered to be conservative when handing this stuff out now.
1. I'm from Indonesia, which according to this video is the hotbed of TB. To order mass screening will cost around 1 billion dollar. Each year. And that's just for the screening. Yes, I agree that the benefit are greater than the cost. But still, it's a big sum of money. Not to mention the specter of corruption that will come with that much money.
2. I don't see any way to make sure the antibiotics are consumed to the last dose except mandatory confinement. But, the difficulties is that will put a good chunk of population in confinement for several months. After what happened to covid, people is not in the mood for another confinement.
@@gorilladisco9108 2. So I suppose we'll wait until people are in the mood for confinement? I wonder what will trigger their mood.
As a kid, I remember reading about "the consumption" - which is a pretty apt descriptor for how tuberculosis chips away at your health and life if untreated. It's presence is still seen in older media, with things like cowboys spitting at people being a huge deal, since it was illegal in lots of places because of how easily tuberculosis can spread through saliva, or how Dracula described vampires' victims in detail that matches the victims of TB. It irks me that we could have eradicated it but then basically shrugged our shoulders and went, "eh, good enough." 😒 My hope is that one day the only way tuberculosis has an impact on people is through history or media such as literature or movies.
Yeah, that's how I originally read about it too, "consumption", and MAN that's a creepy name. One we don't use so much anymore, unfortunately. I remember, one time I was watching a Let's Play of "Oregon Trail 2" here on UA-cam (yes, there's an Oregon Trail 2, and it's WAY deadlier and more detailed than the first one) and at one point, somebody in the wagon party got sick, and when you talk to people to try to figure out what's going on, one lady is like "Oh, I think he's come down with the consumption!"
"Consumption?" said the confused modern UA-camr. "Wait, do you mean like, he ATE too much? Eating? Is that what that is?"
Oh. Oh honey no. No.
YOU'RE not the one consumING...
It would be cool if tuberculosis and covid would merge and become a supervirus.
No lies, I just got a job with Elderly and I needed to get tested for TB today before I start. This information is crazy to hear....
Hello! I'm a medical student from Italy and wanted to say just one more thing: when a patient results positive to immunological tests but shows no signs of active tubercolosis (a condition defined as latent TB infection), there's the possibility to be treated with a chemoprophilaxis which is essentially an antibiotic treatment similar to the one for active TB (usually two drugs instead of four). I don't know how it works in your countries, but look it up if you're ever in need! It helps reducing the probability of a future reactivation!
That was standard practice with me. Unluckily I was on one of those immunosuppressant medications for inflammation (arthritis, psoriasis treatment, etc.) that gets advertised in the US. (Brands I know of are Humera, Embrel, but I know there's many more) so I somehow developed an active case. I'm incredibly thankful that mine was easily treatable, but it was a whole saga.
Thank you for the info
Grazie, non lo sapevo!
Wow non lo sapevo molto interessante
I'm looking into this now. I have latent TB and recently had an organ transplant, which bodes ill considering the immune-suppressing medication I have to take to maintain my transplant.
I just finished school to be an EMT and if there is one thing they emphasize, it's how scary TB is and the importance of safety. To quote my instructor, "people think that car accidents and fires are the scary calls to go on, but if you follow the rules, you're safe. Tuberculosis and Meningitis are the two scariest calls you can go on. Wear gloves and masks and get tested."
That is simply not true. As a TB-specialist I can assure you that wearing an FFP2/N95-mask protects you "100%". It takes very intesive (e.g. when you intubate a person) or long lasting (>8 hours) UNPROTECTED contacts to get infected. And even then only 10% of those at risk acquire the infection. And of those infected only 5% get sick in their lifetime. In Western Europe it is easy to treat TB - the high number of deaths happen elsewhere in the world. The hard thing is to think of TB as a differential diagnosis even in parts of the world where it has become rare - like in the Netherlands. And if you, as an EMT, a notified in advance of a possible TB case (in my experience from Germany a false report most of the time) you should not worry at all as long as you wear a mask. Even gloves can be omitted.
Wdym "call"?
Had a TB patient in my high school some months ago and the school didn't even send students home
And the School nurse refused to hand out masks saying "It's not infectious through air"
@anshumankakralia7542
First responder lingo for a job
@@user-gk8wj3gr9r bruh, a quick google search shows that the nurse was wrong... wow
great job john! i had my doubts but the narration was awesome!
Love the content you guys bring!
Rip Arthur Morgan
I was scouting the comments for this lmao
Revenge is a fool game!!!
Not this one ARTHUR!!!!
"You're a good man Arthur Morgan"
I animate better than Kurzgesagt no offense.
“I gave you all I had Dutch”
I recently did a test for TB for university placements. My sister did in the year before and she got a negative. It was just paperwork to me. To my shock though, I got a positive and in reality I have latent TB. Learning about it can be isolating, especially in a country like Australia where I was born or raised where you never hear anything about it. I'm with Mr Green and am very thankful to this channel. So many people were just as ignorant as me about it and it's massive impacts on society even today in 2024. I'm planning on doing the medications later this year. Wish me luck!
Good luck! Don't postpone it until it becomes an emergency.
I hope you get rid of it quickly ♥️
@@YavorYanakiev Thank you! As I have a busy uni year, I'm waiting until the 4 month break starts in November to take it (it needs huge commitment as you have to take meds for 4 months). Hopefully I don't contract the active form by then!
@@lbell9695Do you watch Vlogbrothers? John has discussed TB there for probably over a year now (not every week tho). If you don't, you might like hearing what has been achieved in fighting TB in just the last few years. John is also writing a book on TB, but I it doesn't have a release date yet I think. Maybe next year?
I just took a test for the same reason! Good luck bro.
Its about to get a rude awakening when your the one with the element of surprise.
we lost Arthur to this
Thank you _so much_ for raising attention to this. I've heard the name, the first time I've seen _any_ mention of it in _any_ media was in an anime (Parallel World Pharmacy), where it was also referred to as 'the White Death'. Given the dramatic name, the nature of the disease and no word about it on the news, I assumed that humanity must have since conquered it, but I forgot what kind of system we live under...
I'm sad to say I didn't know more about it until I saw this video, a true eye opener! Thanks again for spreading awareness!
My friend Arthur Morgan recently passed from this - he was taken from us too soon because of TB. Thank you for spreading awareness about this disease. RIP.
He was a good man, he gave it all had
Oh wow, you knew him too? Ah, suppose it's not all that surprising. He had a rough upbringing and was by no means perfect, but he was really turning things around. Does my heart some good to know he had an impact on others as well.
Second deadliest disease almost surpassing lumbago
He died in a shed just like his daddy
I don't know why I thought about that character from Red Dead Redemption, but I am sorry for your loss.
I Contracted Tuberculosis in early 2020, 'Dodging' most of the ensuing pandemic on account of being bedridden and I was stuck that way for 9 months. It attacked my body first, atrophying my muscles, eating away at me... then it attacked my mind, suffocating my will to live, to get up and do literally anything. My legs no longer moved the right way, I couldn't walk, I threw up whatever I ate or drank slowly withering away. It's no wonder they called it Consumption. I still have nerve damage in my feet making it difficult to balance or run. This disease is horrible, I do consider myself EXTREMELY lucky to have made it through and largely that's simply due to my ability to access the right treatments. I Implore you that IF YOU CAN, for the people who aren't as lucky as me, find some way to contribute to more broadly accessible treatment so that no-one has to go through that in our future
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what do you do to contribute? Any recommendations?
@@alexthemovie no life
@@denusklausen3685probably donate to the right causes, that’s as much as you could do. You could also help raise awareness so figures in a better place could donate too
Hope you recover and get back atleast to a good state !
Hi Steve, the contents on the channel have always been helpful. I thank you for that.
As a patient of having one of the rare diseases called Behcet's disease, I hope you may be able to make one content related to Behcet's disease or similar case upon this humble request 🙏🏼.
this channel is simply awesome. the content it makes and spreads awareness is really great! before this video I never knew what TB really was, I thought it wasn’t THAT serious, thank u!
i was diagnosed with TB 2 months ago. i was scared and thought i was going to die early. i was comforted by the nurse that TB is not scary anymore as it was before. i had panicked attacks and i was always scared every time i cough because of the blood. i lose weight and always feeling exhausted. 2 months into the medication and im slowly getting back to shape. sorry im not good in english.
edit: thank you for the hopes and prayers, i love you all.
I hope you get well soon and be free of TB.
@@joey070893 so appreciated thank you!
Best wishes to you! 🙏💕
Good luck!!
Get well soon.
in the 80s and 90s there was an institution in Türkiye called the Fight the TB Foundation. Whenever you applied for a job,it was mandatory to go there to have an X-ray taken and get a clean sheet. In occupations that handle food, you had to repeat this every 6 months. How we forget these things is incredible...
Post modernizm ve post truth'ın bol sosyal çürüme soslu çağı
soft times make forgetful people. forgetful of the past and precautions.
Very informative. I love this channel.
Beautiful work!
As soon as he said John Green I immediately knew it was tuberculosis. It's amazing the effort he puts to raise awareness and fight back this horrible disease. I wish we had more people like him, or that we didn't have to. But my maddest respect for this incredible human being.
My grandmother’s brother had TB. He was treated at a sanatorium in Eddyville, KY. He came out clear, and lived another 20 or so years. No one has to go into sanatoriums anymore.
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Actually tho
A slow problem can be the worst because humans don’t see it as an immediate threat and don’t stop it.
it also means it can spread more before being spotted
I imagine that our slow attention span is why the concept of accelerationalism became a thing. When devoted political forces feel that we aren't paying attention to an issue they feel is urgent, extremists then usually seek to accelerate the problems so that the general populace may finally notice the issue and take action before it's "too late".
I agree
Yes, just ask the oil companies.
Even admitted to knowingly doing wrong but that nobody would notice so they lied for decades.
The problem can be "worse".
Kudos to the animators on this one. That white crocodile thing is **terrifying**
My father had active tuberculosis in his home country in Africa. The medication made him colorblind, but he survived. To this day he always tells us to wash our hands before we eat, I’m almost 30 and the youngest. Growing up I always thought it was a silly thing he did, but now I’m grateful that he’s still here and wise enough to pass on the information his home country neglects.
Got diagnosed with it a year ago, completely out of the blue. Two weeks of 40+ fever, four weeks isolated hospitalization, lost 15kg, and still recovering. Cannot recommend, 3 out of 5 stars, and that's only because of the drugs and being blessed with living in the EU.
5 out of 5 for your attitude. Hope you see a full recovery soon.
15kg of weight loss...tell me more
@@Dan-bv3mfIts not worth it dawg
more like being cursed with living in the eu
You can do the same thing without TBC by eating less @@Dan-bv3mf
Clean, great content, I hesitated at first because the new narraror, but the script was on point as always.
This was amazing. Hell of a video, i loved. Once again, amazing
“There wasn’t enough profit incentive” will be humanity’s epitaph.
that or capitalism's
Sadly... Yes
Gotta love capitalism and it's dominant sibling fascism.
@@HerveMaas What planet are you from? All the fascists states have come from Socialism...
@@HerveMaassure buddy
@@pamplemoo”Sure buddy” 😂
I caught this in December last year. The scary part was it was not showing up on sputum tests or others. Then I underwent a bronchoscopy and TB was diagnosed. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. Pray for my recovery.
Get well soon
hope you get better soon 🙏
get well soon
Hey man i also got TB before and fully recovered, i remembered the hard day to day that i need to pass it's painful. But you will get there as long as you take the medicine regularly, you can do it
Praying, hope it goes well for you!
Thanks for the video 😊
Love this guy! His crash course video really changed my perspective on alot of old practises/things. If anyone wants another longer video on this definitely give it a search well worth it too! Thank you kurgezagt for having him! X
My mother almost died two years ago from latent TB that she thought she overcame in Mexico as a child, where she grew up. Evidently, it came back with a vengence 30 years later; and in addition to causing pulmonary symptoms, however, it attacked her spinal fluid and caused meningitis. The inflammation got so severe so quickly that it paralyzed the gut nerves connected to the vertibrae where the inflammation was the worst, leading to much poorer digestive function.
Between the exceptionally powerful antibiotic regiment she took to kill the TB and the damage it did to her gut nerves, the doctors she saw only gave her a few months to live on her own. They said she would likely slowly starve to death as her digestive system could no longer process anything more complex than a simple sugar. A nutrient IV would postpone it, but that is incredibly expensive and the American Healthcare system is kinda rigged.
Things were looking pretty grim for a while, but she actually found salvation in gut microbiome transplants and smoothies. She still has to puree any solid food before she eats it to avoid indigestion and has to completely avoid fast food, but she is no longer critically malnourished.
Thanks, Kurzgesagt for making a video on this. Here in the developed countries it's easy to take TB for granted, but it is still a monster humanity should not forget exists.
I'm so glad that grim outlook in the first half diminished greatly, perhaps get her some cybernetics that the billionaires used back in the 2024 days in secret, when they do become cheap, lol.
Oh god, hearing a story of a crazy survival from TB really woke up for me that TB, is more than just a slow killer, it's death itself. Also I feel horrible for you and your mother.
I think for the medical systems its BETTER to be pessimistic and then the patient survives longer and family is happy ; THAN being optimistic and the patient dies and family gets angry.
Microbiome transplant. Fascinating. Search for the Ketogenic Diet. It might help your mom if she ever relapses. (I hope not). All bacteria feed on sugars and carbs, TB probably too. Also check out phage therapy. Perfect to killing bacteria that can't be easily killed by antibiotics
@@lbell9695 do some research on keto and phage therapy. Those might be useful tools to have in your armament against bacteria
When I was younger I had Bovine tuberculosis. Which is super rare in human, and as one of the highest death rate of any diseases
Is it still negatively affecting your life?
Let me guess: you survived.
Did you died?
its good to see that you survived that bro! you're on this planet still for a reason
@@TokyoXtremeyes it killed him to death
Thank you for this video 😢
Wonderful video as always 👍
A dear friend of mine died of Tuberculosis, his name was Arthur Morgan 🕊
rest in pepporoni
Revenge is a fool's game, unless your avenging Arthur
I knew him aswell, I’ll miss him
Found the Red Dead Redemption fans
When the medic said it was tuberculosis i knew it was a death sentence for that era.
I'm glad I found this. One if my relatives caught this years ago (Nigerian speaking), he isn't joking when he said "You turn into a ghost version of yourself" We blamed it on his smoking, I feel bad for the shunning he must have received at the time. Glad to know more about it. Thanks Kurzegesagt.
lol
how is this posted 18 hour ago
18 HOURS AGO????
guys dont interact with the bots, just report and move on
he was 4 parallel dimensions ahead of kurtz
That went from an informational video to an inspirational one...
Epic
The second John Green was introduced I was like "oh! tuberculosis!"
He's clearly doing a great job spreading awareness
That finnish sniper has really gone out of control.
That is what I was thinking
Simo Hayha really oughta calm down
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Dude is sniping faster than 12 years old doing 360 no scope in call of duty
My uncle died of TB in the US 20 years ago, and until watching this video, I never realized how senseless and preventable that was.
what, in 2004? Were they otherwise immunocompromised?
@@gmonkmanit was probably drug resistant. It’s more likely it was drug resistant if he got it from another hospital patient too.
@@gmonkmanalso, back then medical providers didn’t routinely screen for drug resistant TB. Patients were given a full course of antibiotics for regular TB that just wouldn’t kill the resistant bacteria. Plus, the drugs necessary for drug resistant TB were very expensive, and still are, although it’s gotten better thanks to organizations like Partners in Health.
Thanks for the follow on questions. My mom is a nurse and might know these answers. Worth asking about
imma comment to get that algorithm to show this to more people. Well done John and Steve!
Hi Steve. Hi John. Thanks for the video!
I'm a biochemist.
You had me in the first 30 seconds but when you mentioned the 1B figure I was like, ah yes.....
The little buggar himself.
John has a problem with embellishment.
@@freedomsglory1no, he doesn't.
If you look at how many people commented and then look how they said one out of 10 people have it then a lot of people in this comment section actually have the white death
@@freedomsglory1 John Green has an almost super-human ability for poetic-yet-accurate description. Watch your typos.
biochemist jokes suck
Around 4 years ago I got so sick, and fighting for my life for 7 months. Turned out, I had TB. It started with a lung abscess, which was big and made my lung collapse. Unfortunately it was Corona time and I was in Egypt, no hospital would have me committed. My whole body was shutting down, lost 25 kilos in that time. And my health never got better, everything is exhausting. But I'm still alive.
Keep fighting my friend, there is so much to live for, even if the road is filled with obstacles.
You can do it!
@@MrMichalMalek thank you! Life has become even more precious, every moment counts!
@@Yoylekoso 💪😊 Thank you!
Slow and steady. Any progress at all is good progress, and it can take a long time, so allow yourself time to get better.
You got this!
I am actually a med student in india and here there are some real changes happening, just few yrs back new tb eradication program was launched and awareness of TB is being raised
best you tube channel always :), thanks for presenting facts in the easiest manner to digest
The greatest doom of mankind "it was abandonned because it was non enough profit incentive"
When I saw that, I immediately rolled my eyes. No profit incentive = more suffering I guess. 😂
Nothing in life is free. And mankind is doomed from birth regardless.
No cures allowed.
Only (treatments)
That's one thing I hate with passion about our current capitalistic model.
@@maytheusso tell me how much did you or your family pay for last month's oxygen and air?
My father had a positive tubercolosis results a week ago. He was healthy, I can even claim that helthier than me. Disease started rapidly, 2 weeks and he basically can't normaly walk, and at this point most of his lungs are affected by it. Thanks for explaining to me why it happens this way, and all, please stay safe!
My prayers for your father’s health and that of your family. Best wishes from an internet stranger.
Every time somebody explains to me exactly how a disease operates, I develop a mad respect for that lifeform.
As a person with latent tuberculosis living in USA. I didnt thougt it was this deadly.
my prof at the med school told me they were once called a "tuberculosis doctor" instead of a pulmonologist or lung disease doctor.
Yes, in India too it was called PTCD - pulmonary TB and chest disease specialty before being renamed as pulmonology.
@@rallynfernandes8970Which just shows the scale of how much resources and focus was spent with one specialty just looking at this one disease because it affects that specialty so much.
I was translating for some doctors in the jungle near the Colombian border, about 4 hours in a canoe from the most accessible road, and we had an active case get set in front of us. I cannot exaggerate enough how emaciated this man looked. It was comparable only to the photos I've seen from the holocaust.
I got a skin test a few years later when I went to work for a hospital.
Sounds terrifying
This is an awesome cooperation!
As soon as I heard John Green I knew it was about tuberculosis. Keep up the good work John Green!!!
TB was like "day one knowledge" when I grew up. Not because it was an active threat (we all had tuberculin skin tests), but because it killed so many important people in our history. Writers, poets, composers, when you learn about them it's so often "died of TB" "suffered and died from TB" etc .etc...
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TB should probably still be called consumption.
Just because I know I've read the term plenty of times as consumption and until I found out that TB = Consumption, I always thought of TB as a mild far away thing.
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@@_Leyaaa its a bot, its disgusting
as a med lab scientist dealing with samples with TB thank you for making this video, we need more awareness
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I misread this as meth lab.
Thank you for your work
Great collaboration of two great youtube channels
Banger video. Great message. Thank you all so much
TB survivor here, got it when i was 12 years old and the relapsed when i was 22 years old, both of the times i must did 6 months long of treatment of consuming medicines in the exact same time everyday, thank goodness i recover quickly and i can going on my day again
I was vaccinated twice. As a newborn and age 8. As an adult the risk reward ratio is too high but for Kids it is really helpful. They stopped vaccinating kids bc the disease is rare now in my country, but with worldwide travel ot seems awedully short sighted.
I'm very glad you got cured.
This disease is very bad..
I got abdominal tb at 14. At 18 i suddenly got weight loss,blood in stool etc. Now im 22 still struggling. I didnt even got duagnosed properly...😢😢😢
Worst condition im now.
Dont know if i have, ibs,ibd or crohns ,colitis ,etc
But symptoms are just worse man.
Cant eat anything good.
@@i.b.640Open borders help spread this condition.
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"TB kills you slowly"
Oh so you're saying Arthur Morgan was just EXTREMELY unlucky
during that time because of different conditions weather, people, and hygiene wise etc peoples immune systems used to be significantly weaker.
and arthur exerted himself extremely hard constantly which likely exacerbated his symptoms
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Well his trip in guarma accelerated his tb case as you can see since before guarma he is somewhat normal but after guarma you can see on his face that he is very sick. If arthur never was in guarma he probably wouldnt have died as quickly to tb .
Who is this mr. Morgan?
this video is great! more people should spread awareness about TB.
my stepfather got it 2 years ago and is still recovering, but sadly it seems he can never work again
Fun fact: a lot of vampire myths from the Victorian era were actually TB cases. Especially because people became pallid, lost their appetite and couldn't tolerate harsh sunlight.
Sometimes they opened up coffins to find blood trickling from the mouth of the corpse, and became convinced that it was coming to life at night and drinking blood.
Also, people infected people in their vicinity, and so the rumor spread that they were going and biting people at night and turning them into ghouls.
Maybe children were affected faster, hence the myth of vampires preferring virgin victims.
Interestingly, burning the corpse probably helped to break the chain of contamination. Maybe stuff like garlic could ease the symptoms in some of the milder cases.
Plus, it would be such a slow acting disease that most people didn't suspect it was a disease, because it was so under the radar and did not appear to be like other epidemics.
Plus a lot of British artistocrats brought the disease from India and China, into Europe, where people had less immunity
Tuberculosis killed my great grandmother and is still a melancholy subject in our family. My grandmother recalled how as a young girl she was not permitted to visit when her mother was sent to the hospital. She could only wave to her mother through the hospital window. She never got to hug her mother before she passed. Even though it was for my grandmother's own protection, the memory pained her her whole life.
I hope you are able to give your grandmother a hug on her mother's behalf whenever possible.
god damn that is painful memory
It's the same story in our family. My condolences. This video made me sad but also hopeful.
@@asmalldragon Grandmothers are so precious. Please hug them and let them know you love them
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As a medicine student in a country where Tuberculosis is really big deal, to the point where we have a TB Healthcare program that gives the medication for free to patients, this really shows a lot of the issues with how we treat and perceive TB patients themselves can be difficult since they sometimes just don't follow the instructions and forget to get medication or simply just do not care to do so fast enough.
It's frustrating because TB is highly infectious and if we want to control it we need a lot of cooperation from patients as well as a Healthcare system that works as intended which it often doesn't.
I am happy to see videos talking about this disease from you guys, raising awareness about these sorts of diseases really means a lot, it is really heartening so thank you very much.
This is like 10x worse than COVID but people don't care for it as much, I hope that changes soon.
I live in the US and when I got treated for latent TB I had to meet with a nurse who would watch me take the drugs because compliance is such a problem. I am now TB free because I got the care I needed, but a LOT of people aren't so lucky.
No one cares dude
If people are too lazy to take the meds then it is hard to feel bad for them when they die of TB. Reminds me of all the Trumpers dying of COVID-19 while claiming government conspiracies and saying the vaccines were fake (or vaccines were more dangerous than the virus itself).
Sometimes you just gotta step back and let Darwin/Nature take it's course.
Question: Is it possible to cure latent TB? The video said that the little granules are really hard to stamp out.
It's ironic because I have just 'recovered' from a battle with tb. I still don't feel right but I SUPER appreciate this spreading awareness 💙