How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus - Simona Zompi

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  • Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
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    For 10,000 years, humanity suffered from the scourge of smallpox. The virus killed almost a third of its victims within two weeks and left survivors horribly scarred. But Simona Zompi commends the brave souls -- a Buddhist nun, a boy, a cow, a dairymaid and physician Edward Jenner -- who first stopped the spread of this disastrous disease, to make us smallpox-free today.
    Lesson by Simona Zompi, animation by Augenblick Studios.

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  • @Kasrasfriedchicken
    @Kasrasfriedchicken 5 років тому +1891

    some kid: what ya snortin
    monk: *S M A L L P O X*

    • @middlesiderecords9375
      @middlesiderecords9375 4 роки тому +16

      Bruhhh 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @joshirabin
      @joshirabin 4 роки тому +57

      "man i would love to join but my mom said no she says it causes autism"

    • @bluelightning3290
      @bluelightning3290 4 роки тому +1

      😂😂😂😂

    • @ky_piece
      @ky_piece 4 роки тому

      Kasra Ghassemi I-

    • @viksam009
      @viksam009 4 роки тому +4

      Small pox virus was a mass murderer which butchered everything in its way. Corona virus is a silent killer which infects a lot of people but only chooses to kill some people.

  • @deathrod123
    @deathrod123 8 років тому +1564

    "Humans are fucking hackers"
    -Smallpox

    • @penitent2401
      @penitent2401 8 років тому +57

      +ayy lmao "smallpox is OP"
      - Humans

    • @gfr9109
      @gfr9109 8 років тому +6

      +ayy lmao
      ayyliens

    • @atekin99
      @atekin99 8 років тому

      Ded

    • @Heropadopa
      @Heropadopa 8 років тому

      +ayy lmao ayyy llamao

    • @paulmahoney7619
      @paulmahoney7619 8 років тому +10

      NO NERF FOR YOU. -Biology

  • @m.islamnafees5770
    @m.islamnafees5770 3 роки тому +966

    The word vaccine has derived from Latin Word "Vecca" meaning cow. So Don't be frustrated bcz we didn’t forget blossom.

    • @cottonbuddy
      @cottonbuddy 3 роки тому +46

      Blossom was more appriciated than Sarah Nelmes and James Phipps

    • @GamingLearning
      @GamingLearning 3 роки тому +3

      @@cottonbuddy how?

    • @kasiak8992
      @kasiak8992 2 роки тому +2

      @@cee-ymyna9322 !ALERT! Bot detected !ALERT!

    • @kapyness
      @kapyness 2 роки тому +5

      I LOVE COW

    • @Terabit3
      @Terabit3 2 роки тому +2

      @@kapyness I love cow too

  • @sandracheeks1811
    @sandracheeks1811 3 роки тому +905

    It’s cool how the dairy maids had already realized what the scientists hadn’t yet learned. There is definitely something to be said for having experience.

    • @varyolla435
      @varyolla435 3 роки тому +36

      Facile logic I'm afraid. If these dairymaids recognized this = why did they then not develop a vaccine rather than Jenner??? lol!
      Moral of the story: Jenner was the one who put the pieces of the puzzle together - not the dairymaids who simply went along with their routines. He was he one who conducted the experiment which proved out that exposure to Cowpox also elicited immunity against Smallpox which led to the development of the first Smallpox vaccines. Think a tad harder next time.

    • @sandracheeks1811
      @sandracheeks1811 3 роки тому +87

      @@varyolla435 I simply said it was cool the way the dairy maids had recognized the phenomenon of immunity after exposure to cowpox and brought it to the doctor’s attention for him to then experiment on. That in no way takes any credit away from Jenner for the work that he put in to developing the vaccine. But the fact remains, the dairymaid’s words were the spark that lit the fuse.

    • @varyolla435
      @varyolla435 3 роки тому +11

      @@sandracheeks1811 And I'm saying that how do you know it was the dairymaids who as you say made the connection?? You don't of course.
      So actually this connection had been realized in multiple places previously and it was Jenner who conducted his test and made that known whereas others did not. Hence he got credit. Think of Alexander Graham Bell. Others were working on the telephone as well but he was the one who did it and patented it first and thus he received credit for it.
      The dairymaids were therefore incidental here. They simply did their work and others made the connection - which is my point.

    • @sandracheeks1811
      @sandracheeks1811 3 роки тому +34

      @@varyolla435 ok, you may be right. But since that’s the way the story is always told, I’m going with that instead of your theory. Peace.

    • @Likewise412
      @Likewise412 2 роки тому +1

      This is the comment! Exp is the counterpart

  • @rickar-mercenary-3804
    @rickar-mercenary-3804 5 років тому +2724

    That nun should get credit for noticing the illness and helping people using variolation.

    • @hoangtran4736
      @hoangtran4736 5 років тому +148

      *monk

    • @ThatKatGuy
      @ThatKatGuy 5 років тому +65

      LMAO NUN

    • @mareenshah3868
      @mareenshah3868 5 років тому +24

      Rickar -Mercenary- it wasn’t a nun it was a monk

    • @rachelyang9251
      @rachelyang9251 5 років тому +21

      They said she was a nun

    • @VaeVictisXIII
      @VaeVictisXIII 5 років тому +24

      I mean the monk did get credit by the very fact we still talk about her thousand+ years on, so not sure your what your point is

  • @bidbux9500
    @bidbux9500 5 років тому +10735

    And then anti-vaxxers came in.
    Edit: In celebration of this comment getting over 10k likes, I'd like to inform you about the discussion in the replies that has been raging for almost a year. It's pretty amusing.

    • @MV-tx2io
      @MV-tx2io 5 років тому +355

      Anti-vaxxers are just people who are too scared to be vaccinated

    • @bidbux9500
      @bidbux9500 5 років тому +416

      @@MV-tx2io They are just people with too little problems. They need something to complain about, so they chose vaccines.

    • @thinkaboutit4715
      @thinkaboutit4715 5 років тому +161

      Simply, Anti Vaxxers are people with attitude problems.

    • @hankey4537
      @hankey4537 5 років тому +77

      @Sepehr the Scups & Dad BECAUSE PEOPLE VACCINATED

    • @floydy8359
      @floydy8359 5 років тому +200

      R.I.P children of anti-vaxxer parents

  • @ianlee1896
    @ianlee1896 3 роки тому +2710

    Funny how a cow can stop a deadly virus but a Karen can't

  • @biblicallyaccuratesandwich
    @biblicallyaccuratesandwich 3 роки тому +172

    You cannot say don’t forget the cow when not mentioning the monk!! Like maybe hers wasn’t approved in England but it was still a beginning and very important

    • @MusicalMethuselah
      @MusicalMethuselah 2 роки тому +12

      When you don't watch the video...
      4:05 "But let's not forget the Buddhist nun [...] all heroes in this great adventure of vaccination..."

    • @biblicallyaccuratesandwich
      @biblicallyaccuratesandwich 2 роки тому +2

      @@MusicalMethuselah they mentioned her, yes, but not nearly as much as they did the cow and at the end

    • @mateotelleria4734
      @mateotelleria4734 2 роки тому +19

      @@biblicallyaccuratesandwich The name of the nun is not known, which is why they didnt talk too much about her at the end

  • @pollygardiner5669
    @pollygardiner5669 5 років тому +5402

    Blossom saved humanity.
    7.6 billion people owe her a thank you, well, if she is still alive, and she would be centuries old.

    • @badvibesonly2738
      @badvibesonly2738 5 років тому +31

      Polly Gardiner not exactly

    • @pollygardiner5669
      @pollygardiner5669 5 років тому +112

      @@badvibesonly2738 Yeah but, she helped.

    • @TanRyanAndy
      @TanRyanAndy 5 років тому +70

      99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% blossom will be not alive

    • @AlexP-jz9sg
      @AlexP-jz9sg 5 років тому +81

      Actually it was Edward Jenner that created the vaccine through research and experimentation.

    • @gato_feliz605
      @gato_feliz605 5 років тому +52

      If a cow got smallpox it would have acted like cowpox acts on humans
      But the cow has cowpox witch would have acted like smallpox on humans.
      Sooooo i guess Blossom died. RIP Blossom, you saved us all.

  • @norminian_k.t.3740
    @norminian_k.t.3740 8 років тому +3039

    We all know who the true hero is,
    And its blossom the cow.

    • @CyberRacer
      @CyberRacer 5 років тому +9

      NorMinIan_ K.T. Not really , cause blossom is not only the cow who had cowpox , rather the farmer / the farmers son are the heros

    • @texp8734
      @texp8734 5 років тому +20

      That's the joke

    • @legendgames128
      @legendgames128 5 років тому +18

      R/wooooooooooosh

    • @user-rb9nq7rm5n
      @user-rb9nq7rm5n 5 років тому +17

      No, it was the cowpox virus that got jealous of the fame his cousin smallpox got...

    • @theunitsquad3144
      @theunitsquad3144 5 років тому +1

      NorMinIan_ K.T. They then ate the cow and enjoyed it very much.

  • @sm0kei38
    @sm0kei38 Рік тому +6

    this is insane, the fact the humanity could beat this virus by the help of teamwork. truly unbelieveable

  • @weirdnomad8868
    @weirdnomad8868 3 роки тому +19

    I never ceased to be amazed by human ingenuity.

  • @ArturoStojanoff
    @ArturoStojanoff 4 роки тому +714

    2:17 Wow, that lip sync is so clean and satisfying to watch.

    • @user-vy8op6rr8r
      @user-vy8op6rr8r 3 роки тому +7

      ua-cam.com/video/tMINTOSZhDo/v-deo.html

    • @ramaghatak8020
      @ramaghatak8020 2 роки тому

      you mean smooth animation?

    • @admirali.a.6175
      @admirali.a.6175 2 роки тому +2

      Cee-y Myna leave your BS with your type. Vaccines have been proven effective, so please don’t deny their use.

    • @elenamoralez1597
      @elenamoralez1597 2 роки тому +1

      Por favor en español

    • @CountryCowboy008
      @CountryCowboy008 2 роки тому

      Jujubee could never

  • @andremloaded6656
    @andremloaded6656 5 років тому +1277

    Fun fact: Vaccination actually derives its name from Latin "Vacca", which indeed means..."cow"!

  • @lugh6982
    @lugh6982 3 роки тому +52

    The original dairymaid was the MVP, she found out that she would be immune

    • @anniehatley9760
      @anniehatley9760 3 роки тому +8

      The monk is the real mvp IMO

    • @2seep
      @2seep 2 роки тому +1

      @@anniehatley9760 yup he made all of this possible

  • @beckaboo3241
    @beckaboo3241 3 роки тому +134

    Why was the credit not given to the monk by the end? Even the cow was given more credit than the first person who figured out a way to immunize.

    • @Zero-xz2dn
      @Zero-xz2dn 3 роки тому +18

      There is no prove or record for that Buddhist nun. So credit is useless and unessesary without proof

    • @hi-kj5xj
      @hi-kj5xj 3 роки тому +19

      the person above me stated the obvious, but id also like to ask, did you watch the video? or were you just blindly copying other commenters, because she was the first one credited

    • @Zero-xz2dn
      @Zero-xz2dn 3 роки тому

      @@hi-kj5xj ?

    • @Zero-xz2dn
      @Zero-xz2dn 3 роки тому +1

      @@hi-kj5xj first of all the one who was speaking in the video started that there is no record of that person and scroll a little bit and you will get the reply by ted ed

    • @hi-kj5xj
      @hi-kj5xj 3 роки тому +2

      @@Zero-xz2dn yes, i was agreeing with you, sorry if i didnt make that clear. i had intended to add to what you were saying and point out that she was in fact, credited.

  • @prismancy7182
    @prismancy7182 5 років тому +763

    Humanity: **eliminates smallpox**
    Anti-Vaxxers: _It's rewind time_

    • @lightgaming2331
      @lightgaming2331 4 роки тому +22

      i hate anti-vaxxers !!!

    • @theoblivionguard9472
      @theoblivionguard9472 4 роки тому +8

      There are still 2 samples in the US and Russia

    • @Luisyz_
      @Luisyz_ 4 роки тому

      Gliese 876 d China Mapping .
      So does the US

    • @maddie9117
      @maddie9117 4 роки тому +3

      @@theoblivionguard9472 Clearly they're for "research purposes"

    • @xdoe8580
      @xdoe8580 4 роки тому

      @Gliese 876d China Mapping You sounding like a anti-vaxxer now :/

  • @lilimooree6376
    @lilimooree6376 5 років тому +390

    The true savior Blossom the cow

  • @harrietgisela5886
    @harrietgisela5886 3 роки тому +56

    ok but why are we crediting the cow more than the monk? :/

    • @k1n1ami18
      @k1n1ami18 2 роки тому +7

      because the cow was more western than monk, cmon now you should understand anyone who isn't from western world shouldn't be credit it much

    • @ren952
      @ren952 2 роки тому

      @@k1n1ami18 isthis sarcasm ? Please 😭

    • @jacobfredman9442
      @jacobfredman9442 2 роки тому +1

      of course K1N1's comment is sarcasm guys its just that western people love patriotism too much

  • @chaver19xx
    @chaver19xx 3 роки тому +5

    thank you Jenner, Sarah, James and Blossom the Cow
    we owe to all of you our lives.

    • @zinnia2019
      @zinnia2019 3 роки тому +5

      you really owe your life to the buddhist nun

    • @The_Canonical_Ensemble
      @The_Canonical_Ensemble 3 роки тому

      ​@@zinnia2019No, because the Buddhist nun invented variolation, not vaccination.

  • @slimeninja5124
    @slimeninja5124 5 років тому +5580

    Anti-vaxxers: hippity hoppity bring back smallpoxity

    • @slimeninja5124
      @slimeninja5124 5 років тому +48

      Thank you ramen noodles very cool

    • @clickmaestro595
      @clickmaestro595 5 років тому +25

      Don’t encourage them

    • @---ng7ke
      @---ng7ke 5 років тому +10

      Ramen Noodles good thing I just raided that one Russian lab that contains one sample of smallpox. Time to release it.

    • @---ng7ke
      @---ng7ke 5 років тому +25

      Xx GoatDestoryer xX ~4 vaccines contain egg proteins. Others are safe, so you can get those, and the MMR vaccine is also considered safe for those with egg allergies, and egg free alternatives exist for 2 of those vaccines. You aren’t anti-vax, get all the vaccines you can, which is about all but 1.

    • @elissa6385
      @elissa6385 5 років тому +2

      😂

  • @user-yu5wz8tp2t
    @user-yu5wz8tp2t 7 років тому +612

    Why don't those nuns get credit? 3% death rate is not bad for centuries before science.

    • @parallaxis261
      @parallaxis261 6 років тому +4

      oh boy the jealousy

    • @shrimpman9545
      @shrimpman9545 6 років тому +13

      Raphael Vasconcellos lol shut up

    • @shrimpman9545
      @shrimpman9545 6 років тому +19

      འཇིགས་མེད་ རྣམ་རྒྱལ it was just that the brit found a much safer and non dangerous way of curing it. that method was used a lot but i remember reading about how colonial soldiers in the revolutionary war had to get the smallpox vaccination and that it would sometimes infect the person then spread to other people before they get vaccinated

    • @Boi-fl9uo
      @Boi-fl9uo 5 років тому +3

      You got my profile pic 😂

    • @CT--gs1wj
      @CT--gs1wj 5 років тому +5

      because Variolation did not really help eradicate smallpox. I mean why should it when an inoculated patient runs the risk of spreading smallpox to other people, and carries the risk of developing smallpox themselves.

  • @margauxthompson4628
    @margauxthompson4628 3 роки тому +6

    You're gonna thank the cow but not the nun?

  • @camilal8577
    @camilal8577 3 роки тому +17

    and why tf wasn’t the monk credited at the end but the COW was

  • @nap965
    @nap965 4 роки тому +2395

    And many years later it will be a video called ''How we conquered the deadly Corona Virus''

    • @yarinyarinyan8629
      @yarinyarinyan8629 4 роки тому +82

      I just hope so.......

    • @Baelish-fx7ew
      @Baelish-fx7ew 4 роки тому +223

      Smallpox was much much deadlier than coronavirus

    • @oddapricot4077
      @oddapricot4077 4 роки тому +32

      Corona virus is almost gone in china

    • @Ofartedandpoopyslippedout
      @Ofartedandpoopyslippedout 4 роки тому +5

      Pls finde a cure 😱😨😭

    • @asiandude3207
      @asiandude3207 4 роки тому +22

      @haxx for dummies not as deadly as you think but 30% of people got it have severe lungs and organs damage which is not just a "bad flu". Others have to deal with a lot of treatment which requires a lot of resouces. so wash your damn hands and stay home

  • @inkedseahear
    @inkedseahear 6 років тому +590

    The greatest feat of modern medicine is now a controversial topic by people who doesn't understand how lucky they are

    • @jhoanuu1850
      @jhoanuu1850 5 років тому

      U?

    • @MelonLord8
      @MelonLord8 5 років тому +1

      Don't not doesn't

    • @jerrytang2265
      @jerrytang2265 5 років тому +1

      But vaccinations cause autism

    • @MelonLord8
      @MelonLord8 5 років тому +14

      @@jerrytang2265 shut up you bias thing

    • @funnybone107
      @funnybone107 5 років тому +32

      philip Trevor people like you are the reason measles is back in 12 is states when it was already eradicated in 2000. 230 cases this year already when in 2016 there was 86 cases in the entire year. Numbers don’t lie.

  • @plompy5290
    @plompy5290 3 роки тому +10

    blossom the cow is the my hero, i strive to be more like her every single day

  • @archiveofyass
    @archiveofyass 3 роки тому +48

    So you’re just gonna forget about the monk who helped everyone after her TO DEVELOP VACCINATION. She did something important for our progress and a COW is getting more recognition. How nice.

    • @meidingunongshaaba8706
      @meidingunongshaaba8706 3 роки тому +10

      Cry more

    • @archiveofyass
      @archiveofyass 3 роки тому

      @@meidingunongshaaba8706 Joined 5 days ago… unt unt… okay beloved 🥺🥺💀💀👹👹👹🫂

    • @meidingunongshaaba8706
      @meidingunongshaaba8706 3 роки тому +4

      @@archiveofyass 😎😎👻👽👽🕺

    • @archiveofyass
      @archiveofyass 3 роки тому

      @@meidingunongshaaba8706 don’t try and pull up go and like videos dafuq 🤣🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣

    • @meidingunongshaaba8706
      @meidingunongshaaba8706 3 роки тому +3

      @@archiveofyass chill babe. It's corona time 🕺🕺🕺💥

  • @demimorbid8234
    @demimorbid8234 5 років тому +190

    Odd enough, my great great grandma had smallpox. She got it being a kid, in the late 1860s, at five or six years old. As they lived in the countryside of Argentina and were poor people, she was very likely to die, but her father somehow treated her back to health. And she lived 110 years after that.

    • @varyolla435
      @varyolla435 5 років тому +17

      Smallpox typically killed around 20-30% of the people it infected. So your great-great-grandma stood a chance of survival anyways. That does not mean smallpox was not dangerous - simply that around 2 out of 3 people lived = albeit with scars and perhaps other health problems as a result. So be glad humans eradicated it.

    • @walmart8565
      @walmart8565 Рік тому +2

      Woah

    • @Haylow6969
      @Haylow6969 Рік тому +1

      ​@@varyolla435they lived in a country side and were poor, it couldve been harder to treat

    • @crusaderofthelowlands3750
      @crusaderofthelowlands3750 10 місяців тому

      @@Haylow6969 From what I've seen there is no "treatment", but rather either variolation or vaccination which serve as preventions.
      So if you get smallpox, I don't think treatment would be much different for someone who was poor. (Other than luxury/comfort)

    • @Haylow6969
      @Haylow6969 10 місяців тому

      @@crusaderofthelowlands3750 oh yeah that's true. I was thinking because rich people probably wouldve been trying to find treatments for themselves and poorer people in more rural areas had to go to cities to find treatments

  • @negeritopizza6103
    @negeritopizza6103 6 років тому +520

    and thats why vaccines are needed

    • @schmoogledoink2738
      @schmoogledoink2738 5 років тому +1

      True

    • @schmoogledoink2738
      @schmoogledoink2738 5 років тому +17

      @philip trevor yeah, just look up modern statistics for vaccines preventing deadly viruses

    • @eggboi4517
      @eggboi4517 5 років тому +12

      philip Trevor
      did you watch the video you cheez it

    • @multifaceted8544
      @multifaceted8544 5 років тому +6

      blue potato so, smallpox got bored and killed itself?

    • @theyogawarrior
      @theyogawarrior 5 років тому +1

      No vaccines are needed

  • @snowe5021
    @snowe5021 3 роки тому +40

    damn so we all owe it to the monk

  • @madelynreynolds7721
    @madelynreynolds7721 3 роки тому +8

    They needed to give more credit to the monk

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    • @juniiizpsr
      @juniiizpsr 3 роки тому +1

      There is no proof or record for that Buddhist nun/monk . So credit is useless and unessessary without proof
      OG comment by @Zero

    • @BubbleStarYT
      @BubbleStarYT 2 роки тому

      They did tho

  • @AshThumbsUp
    @AshThumbsUp 5 років тому +757

    So all it took was 4 people to start knowing how to cure it??

    • @alatussolanum
      @alatussolanum 5 років тому +113

      Varwolf Rex and a cow!

    • @AshThumbsUp
      @AshThumbsUp 5 років тому +23

      @@alatussolanum oh, thanks for reminding me

    • @siddarth3955
      @siddarth3955 5 років тому +78

      Most of the scientific discoveries were and are random and sudden insights so yeah all it takes is one person to think outside the box or fall upon something new and observe it, just imagine how many such things human beings observe and see everyday but just brush them off as useless info or data ...

    • @galaxyfallyt8929
      @galaxyfallyt8929 5 років тому +8

      Typographical Tyrant wierd how it takes about more than a thousand people and still no cure for cancer

    • @derbeserker3453
      @derbeserker3453 5 років тому +2

      It takes one person to vaccinate you and render you immune to it, forever

  • @latiasgamer437
    @latiasgamer437 5 років тому +799

    Well someone failed plauge.inc

    • @xlifedgt7984
      @xlifedgt7984 5 років тому +16

      Latias Gamer hahahah lmao

    • @parkerphelan2473
      @parkerphelan2473 5 років тому +41

      It ran out of DNA points and it’s previous gameplay was its downfall.

    • @blue9139
      @blue9139 5 років тому +18

      I love that game. And yes i have wridicated humanity with a virus named "anti vaxxer's nightmare"

    • @blue9139
      @blue9139 5 років тому +7

      @@parkerphelan2473
      It didn't evolve enough anti cure traits

    • @TuanAnhNguyen-en9bx
      @TuanAnhNguyen-en9bx 5 років тому +5

      They seemed to not pop the blue bubbles

  • @kaeco_
    @kaeco_ 3 роки тому +28

    where is the recognition for the monk who started the research for the cure? why does an 8 year old boy and a cow get credit and not the monk?

  • @felixkahn4845
    @felixkahn4845 3 роки тому +28

    Weird to dismiss the immense progress made by the Buddhist nun just because it was imperfect. She saved lives.
    Also way to gloss over the violence in smallpox being brought to the Americas...

  • @cdrrayz4782
    @cdrrayz4782 6 років тому +124

    I know that we always say that we'd rather live in the 1800's or 1900's. But when we think of it, we're lucky to be alive.

    • @johnc916
      @johnc916 6 років тому

      Anthony Gonzalez julioooooooooooo

    • @siddarth3955
      @siddarth3955 5 років тому +7

      But it was much simpler in general, not health wise but you could make a fortune doing manual labour and just working. Laws were freaking lenient so you could get away with murder and you could use small pox to annihilate your enemy, his family and his entire country ...
      Ah the good ol' times

    • @apollough2700
      @apollough2700 5 років тому +1

      Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now

    • @TheSilent0ne
      @TheSilent0ne 5 років тому

      Siddarth Reddy
      But then no online video games.

    • @parasiticalibis2369
      @parasiticalibis2369 5 років тому

      @@apollough2700 History is happening in Manhattan

  • @jacquiebrownjb
    @jacquiebrownjb 7 років тому +862

    #vaccinessavelives

    • @littlekykynewbie2714
      @littlekykynewbie2714 7 років тому +4

      jacquiebrownjb but gives you a bit of the flu you se vaccines give you the flu and strengthing the immune system

    • @jacquiebrownjb
      @jacquiebrownjb 7 років тому +99

      Greg Carlson vaccines do not cause autism. That was proven to be false and is spread by anti-vaxxers to push their own agenda.

    • @gregcarlson8438
      @gregcarlson8438 7 років тому

      You are either telling a lie or you are misinformed. The first study connecting mmr to autism was not performed incorrectly. That does not mean that it was proven to be false.

    • @jacquiebrownjb
      @jacquiebrownjb 7 років тому +65

      Greg Carlson what part of "proven to be false" did you not understand? It's not a lie. It's a fact.

    • @gregcarlson8438
      @gregcarlson8438 7 років тому

      I understood the lie you said. I just choose to look at facts, not fairy tales made up by people like you.

  • @DarramationsOfficial
    @DarramationsOfficial 3 роки тому +12

    Coronavirus: *_Hippity hoppity all of ya be commenting bout' me_*

  • @BlueBloxRoblox
    @BlueBloxRoblox Рік тому +1

    That dairy maid saved humanity from eradication, greatest triumph in human history!

  • @amalismail_7
    @amalismail_7 4 роки тому +93

    The word 'Vaccine' came from Latin word "Vacca" means cow..

  • @jazmeen04
    @jazmeen04 8 років тому +589

    And lets not forget O Mei Shan, who started the whole thing, why isnt she the Mother Of Immunology. She only had 3% failure rate, i would say thats very successful, not to mension she invented it centuries ago ( at least 700yrs later ) with very little scientific advances. I think its unfair.

    • @karlbryangaming
      @karlbryangaming 8 років тому +11

      no some people still died

    • @WilliamGilbert_KSP_Player
      @WilliamGilbert_KSP_Player 8 років тому +32

      +dogedoesmc minecraftpe and more! "She only had 3% failure rate, i would say thats very successful" did you not see this?

    • @thebeast9869
      @thebeast9869 8 років тому +39

      +William Gilbert 3% of 7 Billion People is 210 Million People

    • @jacobb5484
      @jacobb5484 8 років тому +26

      +The Beast better than before

    • @MsSBVideos
      @MsSBVideos 8 років тому +16

      I agree, she should have some credit, however 3 out of 100 can quickly add up to many people.

  • @donna4533
    @donna4533 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you so much for this informative video with even Korean subtitle! I will share it with my friends via my blog🤗

  • @abraruralam3534
    @abraruralam3534 Рік тому +1

    People praising Blossom are just on another level 💀. Like the cow literally just had a disease, but it's the dairy-maid who figured it out. Thanks to her honestly for bringing up the topic to a doc.

    • @varyolla435
      @varyolla435 Рік тому

      Ah........no. It was Jenner who upon noticing how diary maids didn't catch Smallpox when outbreaks occurred who tested the theory - not the dairy maids. 🤨

  • @avi8aviate
    @avi8aviate 5 років тому +520

    Not vaccinating your kids because they might get a serious allergic reaction (1/1000000 for MMR) is like not feeding your kids because they might choke (even less common).

    • @lizaramos412
      @lizaramos412 4 роки тому +13

      You got the wrong numbers. Check physicians for informed consent for real MMR numbers.

    • @tbd5921
      @tbd5921 4 роки тому +17

      @frostek hold up bud
      lets not be rude
      liza, how about you go and check with a physician at your local clinic now and tell me the numbers

    • @ulforcemegamon3094
      @ulforcemegamon3094 4 роки тому +2

      Mosaic Slime actually you have 1 in 3000 chance of dying becuz you choke with food in your lifetime , so yeah , eating is way more likely to cause you death

    • @jubileu2024
      @jubileu2024 4 роки тому +1

      nice profile pic

    • @parkye-na6095
      @parkye-na6095 4 роки тому +23

      anti vaxxer logic: "the plane has a one-in-a-billion chance of hitting a thunder cloud... IMMA HEAD OUT NOW"

  • @moonbeam8487
    @moonbeam8487 6 років тому +57

    We so need more people like those people who found a cure for smallpox. They were brilliant.

    • @crusaderofthelowlands3750
      @crusaderofthelowlands3750 10 місяців тому

      Yes! But most people nowadays are in it for the money.

    • @formanga8871
      @formanga8871 9 місяців тому

      Not a cure remember, It is prevention.
      If you got smallpox, You would be at the mercy of odds not to go blind or deaf if you even survive

  • @teresablue2553
    @teresablue2553 2 роки тому +2

    okay, it's really scary to think how many lives could have been lost without those handful of people tho. I'm not sure how literal the telling of the cowpox and the dairy farmer was, but imagine if the physician just ... didn't hear the farmer talk about her cowpox? Scary stuff, man

  • @mugetuzer2951
    @mugetuzer2951 3 роки тому +3

    Why credit the cow and not the monk

  • @stinky.6909
    @stinky.6909 5 років тому +744

    Hear that?
    Its the anti-vaxxers screaming in distance

    • @raphuscucullatus7845
      @raphuscucullatus7845 5 років тому +15

      They must have caught small pox again.

    • @coows
      @coows 5 років тому +2

      @@raphuscucullatus7845 there is currently no vaccine for pox viruses, which means it's pretty awesome.

    • @chuknourish6185
      @chuknourish6185 4 роки тому +6

      Anti-vaxxers:My KiD WilL gEt DepReSSion BecAuse of VacCine

    • @Jaise0622
      @Jaise0622 4 роки тому

      Yeah I hear it all right

    • @imaddictedtowater4515
      @imaddictedtowater4515 4 роки тому

      @Stinky. Yeah, screaming in pain

  • @bleuebrade3655
    @bleuebrade3655 4 роки тому +2800

    Next up: *How we beat coronavirus*
    " We just kind of washed our hands more and waited it out locked in our houses"

    • @insomniarmyinsomniarmy
      @insomniarmyinsomniarmy 4 роки тому +128

      BleueBrade with a full stock of toilet paper

    • @pancakerabber
      @pancakerabber 4 роки тому +20

      Yep that seems about right

    • @dino615
      @dino615 4 роки тому +45

      What do you think were waiting for? A vaccine

    • @anitaa5514
      @anitaa5514 4 роки тому +3

      No we die

    • @JSwagy
      @JSwagy 4 роки тому +9

      You arent actually beating it, there will still be cross species with the virus thats bound to infect humans again

  • @jm56z43
    @jm56z43 Рік тому +1

    At 3:43, the caduceus is wrong : it stands for trade & commerce. The correct medicine symbol only has 1 snake, it's the Rod of Asclepius.

  • @user-zs6wu5ne9e
    @user-zs6wu5ne9e 7 місяців тому +1

    I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS AS A KID.

  • @GiordanDiodato
    @GiordanDiodato 7 років тому +779

    I wouldn't be surprised if Smallpox came back due to the anti-vaccine movement.
    Does he mind if I use his video in my presentation?

    • @springdayisnottoday371
      @springdayisnottoday371 7 років тому +18

      Giordan Diodato why would there be an anti-vaccine movement?

    • @GiordanDiodato
      @GiordanDiodato 7 років тому +99

      유나 xoheartyoona there are people that believe certain chemicals in vaccines are harmful (i.e. thimerosal)

    • @joule400
      @joule400 7 років тому +122

      because obviously vacciness are lizard peoples mind control tricks.
      or thats what some of those idiots think

    • @GiordanDiodato
      @GiordanDiodato 7 років тому +29

      joule400 and they contain nanobots

    • @GrinNBarrett
      @GrinNBarrett 7 років тому +12

      viruses do not return unless stimulated to do so. I can prove it. There was no vaccine for Scarlet fever and it never returned however measles, polio and others do due to revacinations. Think about it.

  • @BurmudaTriangleTV
    @BurmudaTriangleTV 10 років тому +54

    its amazing how one of the worlds most deadliest viruses was eradicated just from a cow. a COW. not to mention a little boy and a dairy maid............

    • @Nvortex15
      @Nvortex15 10 років тому +19

      and edward jenner

    • @ronvoy
      @ronvoy 10 років тому

      and youtube

    • @Nvortex15
      @Nvortex15 10 років тому +2

      no

    • @HanZhang1994
      @HanZhang1994 10 років тому +3

      And hundreds of generations of medicinal knowledge passed around and taught. Thousands of doctors looking into this decease and hundreds of thousands dying from it.

    • @TheByQQ
      @TheByQQ 9 років тому +1

      The fucking cow was just sick and transferred the disease to a girl, that's all. To be exact, it wasn't even the cow that transferred it, virus did it itself when the girl was milking the cow. Cow didn't do ANYTHING to help except being a host for the virus.

  • @Hallows4
    @Hallows4 3 роки тому +29

    Two things:
    1) Smallpox apparently got its name to distinguish it from the "great pox"- i.e. syphilis.
    2) I'm disappointed this video didn't mention Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1762). She was the wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and, based on her experiences there, helped to popularize inoculation in England long before Jenner came up with his vaccine.

  • @UNKNOWN-ro7jb
    @UNKNOWN-ro7jb 3 роки тому +1

    the contribution of the dairy maid is also great in the conquest over this disease

    • @varyolla435
      @varyolla435 3 роки тому

      Not really. Dairymaids had been infected and recovered from Smallpox for a while. In all that time = none of them ever correlated infection with Cowpox as a means to prevent Smallpox. Thus the maid helped Jenner to make the connection - true. Yet it was in fact Jenner and not the dairymaid who concluded infection with one might help against the other and who then formulated a trial to test the hypothesis.

  • @villicana25
    @villicana25 4 роки тому +62

    4:12 so a child saved our civilization.. KIDS TRULY ARE HEROS!!!!!

  • @nfactorial4074
    @nfactorial4074 9 років тому +260

    I'm sorry why would people dislike this ? What is the point?

    • @428yt4
      @428yt4 9 років тому +17

      Calvin Bondley Most likely aliens who think us humans are worthless or somethin'

    • @keithng5249
      @keithng5249 9 років тому +5

      Hi, I'm 428 (HiIm428) May have been pro-life dudes completely against the killing of any living things, including those that had killed billions

    • @thehaphazardsaga8044
      @thehaphazardsaga8044 8 років тому

      +Hi, I'm 428 (At peace) lol

    • @frustratingdiplomacy7319
      @frustratingdiplomacy7319 8 років тому

      +william Houlihan TROLLS

    • @jekehabro2419
      @jekehabro2419 8 років тому +1

      +william Houlihan Cause it's a lie. Only 10% of the population was vaccinated against smallpox. It did nothing to save anyone. All it did was kill more people. Also was known to cause tuberculosis. Jenner's son died of tuberculosis at 21.

  • @Voz1fy
    @Voz1fy Рік тому +3

    2022: ALR GUYS BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH MONKEYPOX 🥳🥳🥳🥳

  • @elseellydesouza6334
    @elseellydesouza6334 3 роки тому +2

    Great video, clear explanation! Thanks!

  • @ouiemfrs4373
    @ouiemfrs4373 4 роки тому +36

    I'm a med student and I just wanted to know what happened back in 1902 when anti-variolic vaccinations caused tétanos' épidémiology but wow I just crossed by this video instead and it's amazing, thank you ❤️

  • @endofyraaaaryfodne3389
    @endofyraaaaryfodne3389 6 років тому +34

    Mad respect for the OGs of vaccination Ms Sarah, her equally brave son James and of course our best friend Blossom the cow.

  • @knowledgelover2736
    @knowledgelover2736 2 роки тому +4

    Im here to get ready for winter 2021. Thanks for the info!

  • @SayakMajumder
    @SayakMajumder 3 роки тому +1

    We desperately need another episode of 'How we conquered' video in the near future ...

  • @easymedicinebytmd8247
    @easymedicinebytmd8247 4 роки тому +89

    This is still one of the biggest wins in medicine!

    • @Deadeye012011
      @Deadeye012011 3 роки тому +4

      This and the development of the first Antibiotics have to be top 2.

    • @saschaesken5524
      @saschaesken5524 3 роки тому +2

      change wins to lies

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    • @leticianeal9147
      @leticianeal9147 2 роки тому +1

      @@saschaesken5524 Shut up.

    • @herculesbrofister265
      @herculesbrofister265 2 роки тому +2

      imagine if antivaxxers were around back then.. we'd still be battling smallpox.

  • @antipeanut1746
    @antipeanut1746 5 років тому +9

    Smallpox: Damn you, you eradicated me!
    Cowpox: Damn it feels good to be a gangsta

  • @eddi524
    @eddi524 3 роки тому +23

    Jennifer: Popular for inventing the vaccination
    The maid and the chinease guy: BRUH

    • @delta5-126
      @delta5-126 3 роки тому +1

      @David Bustamante your spelling might need some work

  • @33Verst
    @33Verst Рік тому +3

    Don't forget Viktor Zhdanov, who also helped alot with eliminating the disease.

  • @johanngaiusisinwingazuluah2116
    @johanngaiusisinwingazuluah2116 8 років тому +186

    I guess we now know why cows are sacred for the Hindus.

    • @jasondeweerd8044
      @jasondeweerd8044 8 років тому +20

      +Avalon Shaw not true, there was once a great king who went to war. He was so beloved by his people that all the men went fighting with the king. When all the men left, there weren't enough people for the farms. People were starving but then came a cow. This cow gave so much milk that everybody could life from it while the men were fighting. People still belief that the cow was a God and that she can appear in every cow so you need to treat them with respect

    • @santiago24601
      @santiago24601 8 років тому +2

      #TheMoreYouKnow

    • @brohan1841
      @brohan1841 6 років тому

      Like always my fault I should understand that it's job of fukin commenting of illiterate dumbassses.

    • @XerexNova
      @XerexNova 5 років тому +2

      Yes lol

    • @atulbijwe3063
      @atulbijwe3063 5 років тому

      Vaccination was a part of indian medicine system of Ayurveda system .It stolen by Edward Jenner

  • @jmyaplimjoco8614
    @jmyaplimjoco8614 5 років тому +285

    Disease: I’m about to end this man’s career
    Anti-vaxxer: Well yes, but actually *YES*

    • @pennytrui1149
      @pennytrui1149 5 років тому +1

      WELL *NO*, BUT ACTUALLY*YES*

    • @deadpineapple
      @deadpineapple 5 років тому

      thats the joke tho

    • @AritraBacchar
      @AritraBacchar 4 роки тому

      Disease:Im about to end this mans whole career
      Phage:Well yes but actually *No*

    • @o_tout0
      @o_tout0 4 роки тому

      Truly partners in crime.

    • @SushiSharki
      @SushiSharki 4 роки тому

      Well yes but actually 😞

  • @beabea5985
    @beabea5985 Рік тому +21

    This is one of the very few reasons I'm proud to belong to our species. This is such an unimaginably difficult task, to beat the one natural enemy we have left - a pathogen. The battle between the least and most developed organisms on the planet (or in the case of viruses - not even organisms, but bare voracious bits of self replicating code) is incredible to witness, even more so when we actually managed to win. Cut forward to 2020, when undereducated Karens and Kevins stuck armpit deep into the Dunning-Kruger paradox bark about how we don't need vaccines and science is yucky herp derp, only to wind up gasping for air, sobbing and begging to be rescued by the same science two weeks later. What a world.

  • @antonydandrea
    @antonydandrea 3 роки тому +1

    had no idea it was 10,000 years old. makes it all the more impressive we beat it.

  • @Exath8630
    @Exath8630 4 роки тому +29

    Some random dairy maid : i'll never get smallpox because i had smallpox before
    Edward Jenner : ok, thx m8. I can't sleep now

  • @Pigzit
    @Pigzit 8 років тому +255

    Pretty deadly for some "small" pox, amirite?

  • @tsounami10
    @tsounami10 2 роки тому +2

    It is said that back then the medical establishment rejected in the beginning Jenner’s findings and procedures, whilst he was accused for his dangerous methods and humiliated in papers at that period.

  • @user-jz2nx6xt3t
    @user-jz2nx6xt3t 3 роки тому +7

    Feels amazing watching this while studying microbiology specially the viruses chapter 😂 i wish if they attached a historical information in our textbooks

  • @themax4865
    @themax4865 5 років тому +590

    NEVER. EVER. VACCINATE. YOUR. CHILD.
    *Let your doctors do it*
    They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

    • @amelia-sp6oo
      @amelia-sp6oo 5 років тому +40

      dosdude I really hope you’re joking lmao oh dear

    • @themax4865
      @themax4865 5 років тому +32

      There's only 2 options: either he's joking or he's and antivaxxer

    • @susssshitpostbasin5730
      @susssshitpostbasin5730 4 роки тому +9

      @dosdude your joking or rarted

    • @antonismanassakis9420
      @antonismanassakis9420 4 роки тому +2

      @dosdude just don't.

    • @ianalexander2017
      @ianalexander2017 4 роки тому +1

      @dosdude there are plenty of people around the world to get vaccinated how is it all of them are dying or getting sick

  • @k_amy
    @k_amy 4 роки тому +42

    Nobody:-
    UA-cam after 6 years :- let's recommend this to everyone

  • @Epee2134
    @Epee2134 Рік тому +2

    Homer Simpson: "I can't make it in to work today, Mr. Smithers. I have smallpox! ...Well it wasn't wiped out in MY household!"

  • @ahsjdbekdkrnrnr985
    @ahsjdbekdkrnrnr985 3 роки тому +2

    You really credited the cow but not the nun :/

  • @deviouscarma
    @deviouscarma 6 років тому +4

    I think a deeper level is that two people way back then volunteered to be apart of such a 'crazy experiment ' even to have it done to your kids too wow

  • @9minty
    @9minty 5 років тому +117

    10 years later-
    How we saved the deadly smallpox virus by anti-vax mom

    • @christoz77
      @christoz77 4 роки тому

      No one to date takes the small pox vaccine

    • @christoz77
      @christoz77 4 роки тому

      @lRaziel1 sanitation is the greatest threat to all diseases

    • @christoz77
      @christoz77 4 роки тому

      @lRaziel1 suppose we'll see

    • @razvancorbu2000
      @razvancorbu2000 4 роки тому

      @@christoz77
      Oradea și nu în de

    • @razvancorbu2000
      @razvancorbu2000 4 роки тому

      Nu

  • @madisongreen8913
    @madisongreen8913 3 роки тому +2

    What about the monk?

  • @dreamguardian8320
    @dreamguardian8320 3 роки тому

    I've about fighting fire with fire, but fighting virus with virus, that is unbelievable! I'm just glad it worked.

  • @djpricha2784
    @djpricha2784 8 років тому +20

    It's pretty interesting that a monk nun was so close to curing the disease so much earlier through variolation. That nun probably had very little experience with any medicinal practices and came rather close. It is also kind of funny that Jenner may have never thought of this solution if he had not overheard a cowmaid talk about it. What is curious to me is how that cowmaid, Sarah Nelmes, knew that she would be immune to smallpox after having been exposed to cowpox. I wonder if she had some background knowledge or if she had an encounter with smallpox and just did not contract it when she should have? Either way, this is a great video detailing how a smallpox originated and how it was cured.

    • @the_retag
      @the_retag 2 роки тому +3

      She heard from other dairy maids of course that no dairy maid that had cowpox ever got smallpox

  • @bluetannery1527
    @bluetannery1527 10 років тому +432

    YEAAHH!!! BLOSSOM DA CAUW!

  • @gigisomarriba742
    @gigisomarriba742 3 роки тому +56

    So why did we credit the cow and not the Monk who literally started it all?

    • @hi-kj5xj
      @hi-kj5xj 3 роки тому +2

      did you even watch the full video? she was like first in the credits

    • @edition1805
      @edition1805 3 роки тому

      But it also said they survied small pox so there immune sytem already beat it just snorting scabs.......only virus we have controlled....if it was so easy.......here is lesser aids have this ...then it will make ur antobody fight and be ready if you got the bigger aids lol not that simple was there though

  • @sharonho6298
    @sharonho6298 2 роки тому +39

    Really appreciate that this was well researched and not limited to European perspectives 🙌

  • @reasonpaudyal9196
    @reasonpaudyal9196 7 років тому +38

    when i was playing plague.ink i killed more people than smallpox

  • @saintsbroyo5320
    @saintsbroyo5320 7 років тому +43

    GIVE UP FOR BLOSSOM THE COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @annawhite8253
    @annawhite8253 3 роки тому +2

    Sarah shouldve been credited by name instead of the cow...

  • @CountryballStories
    @CountryballStories 3 роки тому +5

    3:57 That killed my eyes.

    • @winfreythe2nd935
      @winfreythe2nd935 3 роки тому +1

      Countryball Stories yeah the unsmooth frames hurt my eyes too

  • @goldentortle2484
    @goldentortle2484 5 років тому +51

    May we thank blossom

  • @lila2808
    @lila2808 5 років тому +57

    That is why we shouldn't let the cows population go low because cows saved our lives.
    Well, it was technically Blossom, who saved us

    • @ragheedbahnam8055
      @ragheedbahnam8055 5 років тому +2

      No technical she didn't the cow didn't do nothing
      It was cowpox

    • @blue9139
      @blue9139 5 років тому +1

      @@ragheedbahnam8055
      Without cows cowpox wouldn't have existe

    • @ragheedbahnam8055
      @ragheedbahnam8055 5 років тому

      @@blue9139 true i like cows but
      Blossom shouldnt be the only cow to get credits

    • @blue9139
      @blue9139 5 років тому +1

      @@ragheedbahnam8055
      I agree. The credit should go mostly to blossom tho

    • @ragheedbahnam8055
      @ragheedbahnam8055 5 років тому

      @@blue9139 yeah I agree

  • @bllaxp6264
    @bllaxp6264 3 роки тому +1

    Whats baffling is that we know the cows name and not the monks. they even went and called the cow a hero...

  • @kittycat95773
    @kittycat95773 2 роки тому

    Oh man this channel is actually really cool ill probably share this with some of my teachers lol

  • @beruzebubu6115
    @beruzebubu6115 7 років тому +65

    so what the Buhdda nun did doesn't count D:

    • @lordmeric3180
      @lordmeric3180 6 років тому +2

      NAI-YU TUNG yah basically. Is like making rice. They said for each cup you put 2 cup water. The buddas just added water on precision...maybe it turn out fine maybe it turn soggy. 3% is to much to much risk.

    • @jakemachado592
      @jakemachado592 6 років тому +4

      NAI-YU TUNG she helped, but did not directly help to crest vaccines

    • @jns6320
      @jns6320 6 років тому +1

      vaccines work by treating someone with a weaker version of the virus and letting them develop immune resistance. While the Buddhist monk's work was revolutionary, she was infecting people with the same, deadly virus. Infecting them with cowpox helped them instead by making them slightly sick and reducing the death rate

    • @rinkle396
      @rinkle396 5 років тому

      Noo she reduced the death rate by 97% duh! And introduced and invented the concept of infecting people with a minut amount to build their immunity!?!! (pretty wild) she's the mother of all vaccines and directly responsible 4 all the disease they have pretty-much eradicated! He just came up with a slight modification like putting in bike lanes for safety, he didn't invent the bike or the break or the helmet and bike Lanes don't drop the percentage of bicyclist death by very much at all.. like 1.8% and are more for convenience of pedestrians walking down sidewalks.... Like how scars are inconvenient so milkmaids had been doing/ knowing this for Generations... he really didn't do much at all

    • @lx3ctcountrybadsaladman205
      @lx3ctcountrybadsaladman205 5 років тому +1

      lmao do you want a straw shoved up your nose

  • @mevlanisufi2100
    @mevlanisufi2100 4 роки тому +54

    Great video. However you forgot to mention the fact that last remnants of smallpox are being kept in two labs, in USA and Russia, respectively. The scientists are still arguing whether that is a good idea or not. What do you think? Shall they be destroyed?

    • @unknown-9777
      @unknown-9777 2 роки тому +1

      a bot in a several year old video.

    • @angeliki5135
      @angeliki5135 2 роки тому +2

      To answer the question and get the ball rolling on discussion, I think the test sample of smallpox should be destroyed.
      My reason for saying that is, well you found the vaccine. Why keep the smallpox? A world with no singular small pox virus existing would feel cleaner, and if need be... Take many notes of it and pictures before destroying it.
      It makes me feel so uneasy that scientists would keep a virus around, a fatal one at that, in 2 labs after we've found the cure for said virus. If they want it for experiment sake, call me crazy but that makes me even more uneasy and uncomfortable. How do we know that whatever is discovered is used for good, and not for harm toward humanity? I do not trust scientists, plain and simple.
      That is my standpoint, and I'd like to see many others. As we can only see so far with one perspective.

    • @josehernandez2219
      @josehernandez2219 2 роки тому +2

      @@angeliki5135 A vaccine is not a cure.

    • @angeliki5135
      @angeliki5135 2 роки тому

      @@josehernandez2219 I agree with you don't worry. Just want to get the discussion going. 😊

    • @MRMIKE276
      @MRMIKE276 2 роки тому

      Bill Gates has much more I assure you.

  • @ladykimchi5238
    @ladykimchi5238 3 роки тому

    This reminds me of rookie historian. They have this episode about smallpox and variolation

  • @eclair6910
    @eclair6910 3 роки тому +3

    3:43 Ted-Ed got thier facts wrong. The caduceus is not the symbol of medicine, it actually represents thieves, merchants, messengers, and outlaws. It is the Rod of Asclepius that represents healing and medicine.