This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague
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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
OML YES PLEASEEEE
skibidi better
Ok yapper
@UTTPRichBitcoinman what the hell
nice
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 and a better response from the international community. Know that many of us want what you do but our leaders are too big, too far, and sometimes too corrupt for our wishes to be heard and actioned
"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
@@Exodia_Misogynistdo you want to volunteer to leave the planet?
"Aww, how cute, they gave John Green his very own birdsona"
OH, that's a whole-ass man.
@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
@alexthemovieokay but i don't care
New fear unlocked: breathing
why does everything on earth suck (not everything, i’m on antidepressants please don’t give me the rant)
Lmao mood! I’m like “hold my breathe, hold my breathe”
@@MichaelAndIchaelimma give u the rant.
Nah u right this sucks
@@tropheusanims698 incredible speech
Watching this with a chest infection is not good for the blood pressure
☠️🙏
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
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.
The white death being an alligator as a metaphor is fantastic. The slow predator, the lurker.
I thought it was a wolf💀
@@Niccolo-mt5pk😂 let's call it water wolf
@@Niccolo-mt5pk I thought it was a Finnish guy.
A patient killer, lying in wait for the perfect moment to strike, and when it does, it’s too late
@@KCCerealMe too. I'm Finnish btw :D
COVID: Who are you?
TB: I'm you, but better
Wouldn't it be that tuberculosis is worse for humans
@lastfirst1 Yes, it is. Because you know how COVID killed billions, caused a pandemic and made the world shut down? Yeah well TB killed billions, Is still killing thousands, all while not causing world shut down allowing it to infect even more people and still live to kill to this day.
im you but more psychopath.
and more ancient... the forerunners of terror.
And slower 😂
for a second at the start I thought steve was leaving
Thank god he's not leaving, he's the iconic voice of Kurzgesagt
Ok pedo
@UTTPRichBitcoinman yo drake one of yo shit missing
@@ThatInsaneGamer-hp4gh its probably just rage bait
Sqme
I caught TB and I live in France (Paris).
I still remember that the worse part was not the coughing or the fever but the loss of appetite.
I kept this disease for more than 6-7 months until I got cured.
I went to see doctors because I didn't know what was happening to me, I thought first it was flu and the doctors thought so as well.
For multiple months, nobody could diagnostic what I had and I described the symptoms : cough, fever, loss of appetite, cold sweat (I lost 15kg by the time I was cured).
It's until I got to the hospital when they gave me an X-ray radiography and you could see how big it was in my lung.
This disease is still underestimated these days, because people think that's not something that you can caught in western countries.
You should still be afraid of this shit, way more than being afraid to get COVID.
EDIT : English is not my first language so I may have some typo/grammatical errors.
I read that pretty well. did well for someone who doesn't speak english.
i am so scared now...
Because of migration crisis in Europe tube will become a significant threat even in the west i guess.
You can caught where people in western countries is.
With all the migration and traveling going on in this day and age, this should get talked about more. Especially in Europe, where populations get older, including doctors, and the knowledge they learned at the beginning of their long careers may not reflect the situation an more.
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 love how John, the writer man of the two brothers, has made it his life's goal to stop TB in its tracks. It's a mighty pie to put one's finger in and I'm glad he has.
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
“We didn’t do a good job of distribution” made a major impact.
That is the exact reason why around half of all diseases maybe even more still exist
667 like
This is true for a lot of resources. Food, housing, etc. We have more than enough of everything, but have decided to let some people hoard it rather than distribute it among ourselves.
It made the third impact
TB almost got my father, he barely escape death as he was being bedridden for weeks. Then a year later his aorta ripped, but he again he defied the 10% survival odds with a lucky clot. Now just had a throat cancer removed (likely from the TB damage) and is recovering from the radiation and chemotherapy. He is the most stubborn man I know and I couldn't be more proud of him!
Omg, glad to hear he is still kicking the odds. Death doesn’t come for him, when he’s ready he’ll come for death. We love a stubborn dude.
@JonoFunk bro has beef with the grim reaper 💀
bro is filled with determination
ur dad might have pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, tell ur dad to meet ms Ann T. Disestablishmentarianism so she can give ur dad ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid or dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) to remove it. she can also help with pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism and sphenopalatineganglioneuralgia so u wont be floccinaucinihilipilification. and also she has some grandfathers-in-law incase anything goes wrong, and also will definitely make u supercalifragilisticexpialidocious up-to-the-minute since johnnies-come-lately
Congrats to your dad!
John's voice evokes emotion, I was on the verge of crying when he said "4000 people died of TB, yesterday".
REAL! I was about to BURST into tears
To me, his voice makes me stop listening. I had to rewind at several points in the video because I realised I had stopped listening.
@@xyz7572Okay?
I lost my friend from TB. The bacteria has reached his brain, causing meningitis.
Last time he said that he just had the flu, before he collapsed at work and was brought to the hospital. He was in a coma for a week.
It happened too fast.
😢😢😢
Sorry for your loss.
sorry for your loss man 😔 😟.
sorry for your loss
We had treatment therapies which began to work on suppression at a population-level of contagion.
TB should have become a trivial risk today. As I have been drawn to understand, sloppy - on a global level - application of effective treatments, was the major point of failure.
Say it ain't so?
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
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.
Actually tho
Man, bots are getting really strange.
I knew it was TB at the title and expect a cameo, and I was right lol. See Mr green's videos alot
@@Joshua-gt7pz Yup, genuinely having a difficult time figuring out what the endgame of those bots is.
I’ve had a bad cough for like 10 days and now my anxiety is making my brain go “AHH YOU HAVE THIS WEIRD DISEASE!! AHHHH HELP” 😭
SAME 😭😭😭 pray that we'll be ok 🙏 hope ur cough is gone now tho
@@katexasmo739 Lol ya 👌✨
Grandma got TB during WWII, almost killed her. She had fever for years as a child and was left with permanent lung damage.
My grandma too, her father died of it in 1943, but luckily she was cured, but had to have regular x-rays controls
My grandma too. She caught it as a child. The people running the orphanage didn’t notice. It was bad, then better. Then as a adult it got bad again, while she was living in the Congo. She had to live with just one working lung. An infection of the airways killed her in the end. By then dementia had already caught up on her. She lived a full life.
YEARS?!….Jesus
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
Nuking a site from orbit is the only way to be truly sure...
@KAIYFGA32Wow you don’t even know why your content is better. It probably isn’t.
Damn
/mute @KAIYFGA32
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.
The words "deadly disease" and "profit incentive" should never be used in the same sentence
it’s an unfortunate world we live in
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
keep on reporting all the spam bots
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 !
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
"Killing to slowly for our attention span" that one describes our behaviour with a lot of problems in our society
fr
It concerns humanity, not just 'our society'
*too
Also well said, and by our society I think they mean modern global societies which includes how all of our voters and governments react to slow threats
True.
Doesn't help that political terms around the world are rarely longer than 5 years and parties mainly focus on short term stuff they can score with...
Also, the fact that an industry driven by profit has not much incentive to eradicate a disease completely with a cure they spent billions in research for.
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but some things like health should definitely not be an asset in the stock market...
I like how he mentions climate change. There are a lot of people I know in my personal life that believe climate change is made up by the government in order for us to change our lives.
my uncle had died from tb a few months back and seeing that there is a cure for it and it's not well distributed in my country (indonesia) pisses me off
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!
“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 found this video really interesting and educative + Johns voice is really nice to listen to. Thank you for this video
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 so sorry for your loss
I am so sorry for your loss. What happened, before they passed? If you don't mind me asking, I am currently fighting the disease, so I am a little curious
I am sorry for your loss
Best of luck to you‼️@@theleshan
My condolences
Maybe let yourself be tested for tb incase he/she/it infected you it would be a shame
In 2018 I survived TB, I was 29 years old, I had headaches, temperature and night sweats for months before I knew I had the disease. I eventually coughed and vomited blood and that's when I went to the doctor. The disease was detected through a bronchoscopy.
Gods got something for you
@@Schlorpy nope, it's thanks to modern science :)
Oh boy. Can’t imagine not going to the doctor after months of those symptoms. What was the reason for you not going to the doctor that long if I may ask?
@@User-gd5un
Just stubbornness, I don't usually go to the doctor or get routine checkups. It was until I felt a lot of pain in my chest due to a constant cough that I decided to go to the doctor.
I got it at 6, drank bad-tasting medicine for a year, and feel lucky later that it was a treatable stain then. All I lost were the lymph nodes in my my neck and a year of school.
My grandma and mum have had TB. They now have marks on one of their lungs whenever they get an xray, but I don't mind it at all. I'm so glad they survived.
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.
That is scary i wonder if India already has a TB vaccination program
That's a unfortunate thing. Please, please, stay and be safe!
You're a radiologist dude... You run the x ray You don't see shit😂😂😂
Lol
@@TheinternetArchaeologist One of many things to diagnose TB is RTG of the chest - you may see shit, moreover, the doctors make description of RTG and MRI leave you these with CD to send this information further to local sanitary stations. Even if you don't do RTG's and you're just an assisstant, you hear and read shit.
As a Doctor who specialises in Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, this is sucha great video. Thanks for spreading information guys
This reminds me of an old game strategy in Plague Inc. Specifically where you would max infection rate but have zero severity and lethality UNTIL everyone was infected
One of my favorite games ever. There's a pop up called "more infectious than TB" and to me, this one feels weirdly more dangerous and threatening as the other pop ups
It’s a great strat tbh. Especially for bacteria. Bioweapon wants severity though for the dna points.
Me when playing Plague Inc (just be infectious, no need to show yourself, yet)
Yes indeed😊
“Ya got tuberculosis sorry son it’s a hell of a thang”
Was looking for a RDR2 reference here
@@the_letter_5579Black Lung
@@the_letter_5579 same
@@BOWHEAD_YTand cowpoke
But I got LUMBAGO! It's very serious
"I'm afraid" - Arthur Morgan
I am from Indonesia.
And 3 of my extended families dies of TB.
1 Adult of 30-ish years and 2 elders of 50-ish years, and it was all from 1 household.
Those was 2 parents and 1 child, they are a family of 2 parents, 5 children, 2 of the children's spouse and 2 grandchildren, they all shared a medium sized house of questionable conditions, as Rent is quite high.
I do believe the whole family is infected with TB but are in the dormant state, sometimes I too get paranoid about it when experiencing bad cough, either from Covid, common cold, or from my allergies and asthma, almost everyone in the extended family have quite a lengthy contacts with the "TB" Infected family.
Maybe I'll get screened for TB once in a while, although we have an even scarier risk we are forced to live with...
It's named "ASBESTOS", it's everywhere in Indonesia, most houses use it as ceiling materials, because they are cheaper and people are unaware of the dangers. Worse yet, the asbestos conditions in most of the houses are in deteriorating conditions, either cracked or broken completely from previous earthquakes which is quite common in my country.
Ahh. Sorry for your loss. I hope your family will be alright.
im sorry for that bro. i hope u get better
My family is from Indonesia but they moved to America when they were young. My sisters and I were born in America. My mom got sick with a fever the second we visited Indonesia and I felt so bad because I was the only one wearing a mask. I always clean everything if I can. I hope your family stays safe and healthy! We learn about asbestos in school and I'm so sorry to hear that. Also, I'm sorry for your loss 🕊️ may they rest in peace.
Bad luck dude
9:51 "The white death has been with us for millions of years, its time to continue our jouney, without it." ✍️🔥🔥🔥
Chef John 🔥
bro almost cooked up a new vaccine 🙏
imperialism??
"Let's Stop Making Children- Wait You Are Talking About A Disease-"
Homo Sapiens have not been around for "millions of years" nor would we have survived as a species if it had been around in the olden times.
More lies from Bill Gates and his horde of demons.
Homo sapiens have only been around for 500 thousand years give or take a bit.
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 RUclips (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 RUclipsr. "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.
“4,000 people died of TB yesterday” sometimes you just gotta tell people what it is as it is for them to get it, that’s what made me really understand how bad it is. 😪
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".
My wife is an internist at a TB hospital and particularly works 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.
9:40 wow that hits way harder than saying a day
True
as a med lab scientist dealing with samples with TB thank you for making this video, we need more awareness
I misread this as meth lab.
Thank you for your work
Wow. People come here from all corners of society!
How's the work going?
ayy, my fellow lab tech
@@ghengilharI misread it as Mad lad 😆
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...
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.
@UTTPRichBitcoinman what...? 😰
@@_Leyaaa its a bot, its disgusting
@UTTPRichBitcoinmango sʎʞ. kids cannot consent
take it from a victim of grooming
@@Warrior-fd7ofreported
My nephew got TB as an infant. Everyone exposed to him had to get a skin test. He was in isolation in the hospital for a week. No one else had it. He's 29 now, healthy, handsome, and happy.
A friend of mine also got TB as an infant, it got worse and developed into TB Meningitis. The meningitis has given him some complications. He’s lucky to be alive.
Bacteriophage : Looks like we have a job to do
That finnish sniper has really gone out of control.
That is what I was thinking
Simo Hayha really oughta calm down
Dude is sniping faster than 12 years old doing 360 no scope in call of duty
"What the duck, i thought i hired goons!"
@@thekhoifish0146Häyhä* "a" is a completely different letter in finnish.
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.
i agree
Man..
My man Arthur died to TB 😢
He didn't die to TB, but it definetly..."helped"
@@figard9855depends on the ending though
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
@figard9855 English is my first language, and I don't see how it's edgy either lol
I had active tuberculosis in 2000. I caught it from my mother when I was a child in 80's. I took 13 pills a day for 8 months. It is still in my body, I know it. The doctors told me it will stay until I die. There are scars on my lungs. I have to tell every doctor or radiologist who takes a x-ray and checks my lungs. I was lucky, sadly not everyone is.
The white crocodile was a really brilliant analogy
Could we please hold on a minute to appreciate this amazing storytelling? Within minutes, I was scared to death, then full of hope, and then sad about all the losses in the past.
I've already seen others' losses and devastations, it's too depressing, I can't bear it
My maternal grandfather, born in 1939, was in the first wave of people in Canada to receive TB medication after it was approved for use on humans. At the time, they had just moved him into palliative care a day or two before, expecting that he was going to die.
A huge portion of my family tree only exists because of those medications.
I research TB and NTMs (infections caused by bacteria in the same group of bacteria as TB, but they don't cause tuberculosis. Some cause lung infections like TB and others cause skin infections) and I'm so grateful for all of the awareness John has raised for these illnesses. It's insane that the #1 infectious killer now and of all time is so neglected
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.
I am a survivor of TB, and I'm glad you guys made this video. It's good for me to know in more detailed what hit me a few years back, and also to educate people about this disease that could likely put you in a statistic
How did u survived, can u name of those drugs and therapy
@@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416 it’s mainly 4 different drugs for normal TB but you need to take test and checks if it’s snot mdr or even worse xdr version . Mine was simple which the treatment lasted for 9 months I had lost weight from 65 to 45 kg I was made sure to continue taking drugs for 3 more months so there is no left over TB
I surive TB too I just drank 4 antibiotics for 6 months.
@@meliocurie1809 how ...?
@@satyasankalpapanigrahi9416 a disease can be resistant against antibiotics or your immune system, not both.
“I tried… in the end. I did.”
You’re a good man, Arthur Morgan.
I wonder when the bot is coming
keep on reporting all the spam bots
@alexthemovie Ok.
@@Dreagostini please do not reply to them in the slightest just report them
Go out there and be a mad!
This is the exact kind of video that scares you at first, but every now and then says things that relive ya.
first time john green has ever talked at a normal pace
Also, why does he keep bitching about tuberculosis on RUclips? Shouldn't he be pressuring the United Nations, the Chinese Communist Party, and the governments of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia directly?
@@AlumniQuad😂how?
@@AlumniQuad What has a wider reach than RUclips?
@@AlumniQuadExactly! I'm sure it's super easy to get an audience with world leaders. If that doesn't work, he can just storm the UN! Good idea.
@@darkhorse381 So he can produce videos that are viewed by tens of millions of people in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, but none of those people can really do much. Or he could work directly with policymakers in the Ministries of Health in India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc. Or he could choose to work directly with the World Health Organization. But I guess producing videos viewed by millions of consumers puts more $$$ in his pocket and wastes more time and actually directly addressing the problem means he'd have to find some other cause to champion, which is more work for him.
Thank you so much for this video. I’m a TB specialist and TB affects the most vulnerable people in our society. People think TB is some Victorian, third world illness but it’s not. It’s in the US and it’s only getting more and more prevalent. Our funding was just cut and I don’t know what’s gonna happen.
TB is completely curable, patients perk right up after just a few weeks of antibiotics and after 9 months disease free. The antibiotics used to treat TB are in short supply in the US sadly, and one antibiotic for multi-drug resistant TB is incredibly expensive.
Oh no. Great. If it’s in the US, and there is a shortage for the vaccine, I’m screwed.
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?
New anxiety unlocked: Never breath again
This disease is very close to home. Unfortunately it killed my grandfather way back then in 1977. My mother and grandmother tells of stories about how painful and horrifying it is. Coughing out blood, intense chest pain, and just gasping for air as your lungs struggle to breathe.
My mother's family back then didn't have access to modern medicine yet, due to them living in a distant rural area. He was buried in a makeshift casket due to how difficult life was back then. Even today here in the Philippines, TB is a very serious problem and we are the most infected country in Asia.
Yes, we are worse than Afghanistan and Myanmar in terms of TB infections. It is a combination of lack of awareness and our government doing very little about it. Right now we are even in danger of the MDR strains which would make it even more difficult to our already fragile healthcare system.
Thanks for this video, Kurzgesagt and John Green. And thanks for spreading awareness. RIP to my grandpa.
RIP
Im hoping i dont have this
@UTTPRichBitcoinman wtf
@@steelcube-nf8nu Just report it.
I thought I was the only one who kept eyes on TB
It’s a shame this is getting ignored by our healthcare system
This is a crossover I didn’t know I needed 😎👏
Fr
Yes
And this is the "Chocolate Rain" that I did not expect to find in comment sections.
Great to see you're still around ... Send help, your song's now on autoplay inside my brain.
TAY ZONDAY?
Love you Tay! And I love the Cameo you did for me years ago, you have the perfect voice for it
Watching any video from this channel:
“Ooooo yay a new video. *gasp* it’s interesting!”
“Oop, now I have anxiety. I need to click off the video now… crap crap crap crap crap…”
“Oh wait everything is fine, ok keep watching-“
“Gosh dang it.”
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.
this made me learn about this I never knew more people need to watch this and I like the cool background at the end I'm liking the video.
My grandma on my dad's side caught TB when I was 3 year old. She spread it to everyone in her family except for my dad (because he moved out with my mom), and for 2 years no one in her house got any treatment because they were too poor. Eventually they managed to save up some money to go to the doctor and got cured, but that was only possible because my dad prioritized them over me, my mom and my sister. My parents divorced when I was 5 and this is one of the biggest reasons. Both had to move back to their parents' houses. My mom ended up stuck in a dead end job to raise us and now she still has 2 more years before she can retire. My dad lost his old job after the divorce, never got another one that paid as well. Whenever I got to visit my dad's family as a kid, my mom would try to stop me by saying I would get TB from them. It made me extremely paranoid of TB growing up
dang, where do you live? for all the flack America gets at least if you are poor you can usually get Medicaid or other help.
@UTTPRichBitcoinman What the fuck is wrong with you
That sucks, sorry you went through that but glad you're still among us.
@@Chaotic4Neutralamong us ?
@@Bapiten-hy3lk yk among us doesnt always mean the game
My wife got TB living in Los Angeles of all places on her mission.
No surprise there, think about how much immigration from all parts of the world is in LA.
Mission? Mormons?
@@pheenez7881 yup
@@RyanMerceryour god didn’t protect her?
@@hurhurhurhurhruhrurh that's not how that works bub or else everyone would be invulnerable, immortal, and the world would have run out of recourses centuries ago.
Props to the artists for this one. The White Ghost had a very cool design. Menacing and cool without being to flashy for a stealth killer.
Thanks for telling me about this, wouldn’t have known about it
I grew up in a small town that had a TB hospital, three large separate buildings. I believe it was shut down in 70's, maybe 80's, but it's crazy to think how they had specific hospitals for one disease. Thank you for spreading information and knowledge.
My home town with a population less than 10k people had a special building on the hospital campus for TB patients. It was mostly used as storage when I was a kid, because it was too far away from the main hospital buildings to be useful as office space.
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
"4000 People died of Tuberculosis *Yesterday* ." Is a haunting statement.
“Active Tuberculosis is an emergency but again a slow one”. That’s just gold right there!
Thank God my employer made me take a TB test a few weeks before watching this
I was coughing for like two months, didn't take it seriously cause it was during the winter until one day I coughed out blood, and the whole thing became serious real quick.
After some tests, it turned out to be tuberculosis, so the treatment began.
Luckily, in Iran, TB treatment is free, and after six months of taking medicine, I was able to beat it.
My weight is now up 4kg and feeling real good 😊
GREAT JOB 👍 YOU'RE BETTER THAN IT AND MILLIONS (rip to them tho)
Let’s goo!!!!
yay im so happy for you !! :))
Same for me here in Brazil. It was so conforting to know that the treatment was free because my family was broke at the time
ok but can we talk about how absolutely terrifying the artists of kurz made TB? a fantastic job! the visuals and art never cease to amaze me...
The first few seconds got me shocked. I thought Steve would stop being the voice of Kurzgesagt for EVER
fr, then i remembered WHY john green is talking about TB
@UTTPRichBitcoinman shut up rage baiter
What the fuck is happening under this comment
keep on reporting all the spam bots and do not respond to them.
@user-qi7kk7su3l it's bots. Report them if you see them
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.
Best of luck, get well soon!
You are in my thoughts. Hope you make a full recovery 🩷
As a Malaysian who used to work at a diagnostic center, I know for a fact that Tuberculosis is one of the most commonly screened diseases for migrant workers as part of ensuring their work visa eligibility.
Before I head to the UK for studies, I had to be screened for TB as well before I can get my student visa.
& did you have it?
(I definiely hope not.)
@@Yoylekoso Well, not at all. Thank you for asking.
@@chewxieyang4677 I'm very glad.
The US does the same thing for permanent residents.
Which is a bummer because in many cases you are already living in the US for years. Then you are about to become a PR and they ask for the test. Well, a bit too late now, isn't it? Of course, the benefit is that you get tested and can choose to treat it before it becomes a problem.
damn i didnt knew tuberculosis was THIS dangerous
I got TB right now. Two of my great-grandparents died of it, so we knew to look out for it and have acted hopefully quickly.
🙏🙏🙏
I wish you the best
Wish you luck. Tell us if you get cured by the way. (Yes I’m worried about strangers)
are you doing ok?
10:12
Trust me, all you gotta do is put up an ad that says, "Arthur Morgan died of Tb, do you?" And everyone will start listening
My Partners mother got infected with TB by cutting into bones while being a pathologist. Even after you die, TB can still infect those around you.
thank you.
shieeee
great fact
@@6666todor shoo for real, its like ya can't even enjoy any old good cadaver as a pathologist these days.
@@gmonkman the more you know
You're a good man Arthur
Damn
I was waiting for a rdr2 comment
@@Lucasio99same
*L U M B A G O*
Be loyal to what truly matters
My mom's parents both had it, my grandfather lost one lung and got a 4F draft card during WW2 and hated that fact. My mom is 10 years older than her sister, and lived with another family for years. Thanks for keeping the pressure on and all you've done so far, hopefully the rest of us can take it further.
John is not the Greene brother I expected in a Kurzgesagt video, but given John’s obsession with TB it sorta gave away the reveal 🤣
"all according to plan" ahh bacteria 💀
Fr💀
I'm surprised they didn't draw it with a top hat and monocle
Its also sad 😢
Kenjaku moment
Companies have your data bro, say goodbye to getting a well paying job with that racism and shit.
“You’re a good man Arthur Morgan”
No I ain't
I recommend adding a spanish translation for this and other videos that attempt to communicate about diseases in developing countries. I would like to share this to my family. They live in a country were active tuberculosis is present and it would have been good to send them this
My mother got TB from our trip to Italy in the early 90's. It was a cancer scare since my mom was a smoker in her 50's. Got the proper treatment and got well very fast.
The fact that we have and have had the means to vanquish our oldest foe, and yet we haven’t because it’s not profitable… that’s the scariest part to me.
What's there to be afraid of? Everyone dies anyway... 😴
@@amazinggrapes3045Yes, but it is better to not die as a 10 year old because your parents can’t afford medication.
@@amazinggrapes3045Everyone does die but tb is the worst kind of death possible you basically drown in your own bodily fluids before the tb finally let's you die
FR. Like "ya I COULD eradicate the disease with the largest kill count in history and is continuing to increase it to this day.... but how does that make me money?
We had practically eliminated TB in the US but the dems decided to flood the country with disease. Now 10 major diseases are back and infectious diseases are up 3000%. All for votes, that's more scary to me.
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*“You’re in the bullet’s way, The White Death’s prey! Say goodbye!”*
damn bruh i think you might be in the snipers sight, the first kill tonight.
Unexpected Sabaton moment
The dislikes in the video are the poor commies who got in the bullets way
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**”It all returns to nothing, it just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down!”**
Just commenting so the algorithm will suggest this video to more people, i think everyone needs to be informed about this