rabies is horrifying, not only did it get my boy old yeller but they were right to put him down; if you get rabies, by the time you're symptomatic you're already toast
Hey now, there's one case where someone survived without severe brain damage. My source is I read it somewhere once, I think. I was bitten by a baby raccoon about 10 years ago. I didn't THINK it broke the skin (through gloves, didn't bleed). The next day, my finger had swollen to an enormous size, so I went and got shots. Without health insurance at the time, those six shots earned me a $30K hospital bill (negotiated down to ≈$1,400). But I'm alive, I have a loving wife and a beautiful daughter, and all of that could never have happened if I'd ignored the possibility of infection.
@coreymartin6363 there have been a few cases worldwide (less than 20) who survived rabies using a controversial treatment protocol called the Milwaukee protocol. So far though, these survivors have been children. No adult has survived rabies even using this treatment.
@shawncooper8131 While an apt description, I believe that the survival rates for getting hit by lightning was actually way better than showing rabies symptoms. A quick google search says 90% survive getting hit.
@@Steeze111that movie has been made already, it’s called 28 days later. The mutated virus has a different name in it called the rage virus. I love that movie.
One important thing about rabies, to those who don't know: rabies like to sit and wait in your spine after infection. The incubation time is unpredictable, and it can sometimes take years before symptoms show. If there's a possibility that you have been infected with rabies, seek medical attention *immediately.* As long as you are asymptomatic, rabies is entirely curable, and you're good to go. The moment you begin to exhibit symptoms, you are almost certainly dead (seek medical attention anyway, but don't get your hopes up).
Best part of Dying Light is you can see why the infected were a threat. It isn't even just the volatiles, but other specials running amok. I can totally see them taking out areas with only the prepared being able to survive. Not like everyone is equipped with high intensity UV lights. Everyone is gangsta in a tank till it chugs through all yer gas, and requires getting out to refill. Can't wait for the Beast update.
@@baron6588 good thing its basically extinct in many parts lf the world. i think the only places its somewhat common is wildlife in north america(which is fine due to low contact rates and smaller populations, fast disease course) and southeast asian dogs(very scary imo, big population in close contact with not only a lot of humans but many other animals that can carry it).
@@GermanNightTrain the fungus ignores the nervous system. The brain and brain stem are ignored, while the fungus controls the muscles. Thus you are alive and lucid while being controlled until you die.
In "The last of Us" game lore, it's kinda hinted at in the first game that it was fungal infection made in a lab, likely with military funding, as they said it started in the city, and the neighbor that you first see that's infected was a scientist who worked in the city. They were likely working on it as a mind control method, as the parasitic mushroom grows on the brain and effects mood and personality. Further proof that it was man made in a lab, was the military response time.
The only thing that bugs me about these declarations that it’s impossible (and it doesn’t bug me that much, these are experts in a field I comparatively know nothing about) is that it doesn’t account for climate change. This can’t happen now because humans are too warm internally to allow a fungus to do this. The problem is that the second this fungus evolves heat resistance because of climate change then it’s a theoretical possibility and that’s horrifying.
Theres still a lot more adaptation required before they take over a complex nervous system like a mammal, let alone a human. More over, that adaptation actually has to give some increased odds of reproduction beyond what they already have and it would need to be pretty immediate for that very long process to even begin
It's a serious topic and an informative video, but this mans hair is just perfect. Looks like a gdamn lego-piece, and I say that in the best way possible I friggin love lego
Those who refuse to worry and tell other not to as well are the very reason disasters can be so disastrous. Just because it can't happen rn doesnt mean something can't change in a bit that makes it a going to happen. But the only way to truly prevent it is to be prepared for the just in case scenarios. Bc if you ignore and avoid possibility you help solidify its inevitability.
You’re ignoring the science here. Despite outside factors changing like climate change, these fungi would still need to evolve to infect something not at all related to what they prey on which would take at least thousands of years but more likely millions.
To my knowledge, there has never been a recorded instance of a human transmitting rabies to another human by bite. Some symptoms that manifest are hydrophobia and hypersalivation, as well as agitation, vomiting and fever.
My favorite non-fiction book posits that rabies is one of the cultural inspirations for zombies...as well as vampires & werewolves! Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Ants gotten smarter too, i read somewhere, some ant colonies would cover themselves with certain substance so they can avoid being infected by the fungus. They usually send that 1 ant away if they are infected. Also another smart move by ants.
I think the whole point of using a fungus for the plot of TLOU is that preventative measures for fungal infections are quite limited compared to viral and bacterial assaults. I believe they said as much in the start of the series that the very reason it's so dangerous is that people are so nonchalant about fungal predators. Now obviously a series and reality aren't the same thing but it was a clever justification because it turns your rationalization against you :p
If you've seen a canine or even a person affected by rabies, it's terrifying. Canines especially can't drink water, but bite. The only thing is you eventually die, unlike the modern-day zombie infection we all think of.
I think a really good "zombie virus" for a story would be something that combined the qualities of rabies and prion diseases, like mad cow disease, because there is no known treatment for transmissible prion diseases, and prions are very hard to destroy.
You only think that because of media. In reality it would likely take at least tens of thousands of years for a fungi to evolve to infect something that is not at all related to what they infect. A single mutation would not do that because that’s just not how evolution works. Not everything evolved just because it had a random “mutation”. Most things evolved gradually over millions of years, like these fungi which have only ever infected invertebrates for all the millions of years that they’ve likely existed.
what you SHOULD worry about is humans reverse engineering things like ophiocordiceps to create something out of a nightmare.. there is more fungi and parasites out there that do these sort of functions.
I never quite understand why people wanted zombies to be a real life thing, when the very concept of it has already broken the first law of thermodynamics
Candida is a type of yeast that is not at all related to the Cordyceps fungi that infect insects. Candida causes Candidiasis in humans but that infection is nothing like the zombie-like mind controlling infection that Cordyceps causes in insects.
you can tell when you say the idea, "the bug infecting fungus quardeceps can infect people" that there is just a twisted scifi wish there that it was possible. like saying dragons existed...no, you just really wish that.
Both are great candidates to later become what can be described as a zombie infection. Fungus are evolving to withstand higher temps due to climate change. And virus mutating happens all time 😅
But we are finding more and more fungus that are becoming capable of growing in the human body. Dead or alive. As temperatures rise, they will continue to evolve.
That's adapting not evolving the fungus has already evolved to be a perfect system and if it did people wouldn't eat people they would climb trees to deposit spores 😂
not gonna happen, no matter what. you CANT get such a heat resistance in the time this fungus have until it is to warm and they will die out. THATS the problem with climate change, it is to fast. such a change not within 1000 years but within 100 years is REALLY challenging.
A warmer climate does not directly correlate to being able to infect completely different and far more complex animals with completely different nervous and immune systems. That evolution would take countless generations to happen if it did. I’m sorry, but the story of that game was created by people who wanted to make a compelling fictional story. Not by scientists who only added plot to the game if it was something that could happen in real life.
But you should be worried about fungus infection doing other things, like ruining your foot.
Never go barefoot in a public place. Athlete’s foot is incredibly and annoyingly itchy
Yup. And with a warmer climate, this risk is growing.
yeah and food and crotch
The last thing you'd want in your Burger King burger is someone's foot fungus. But as it turns out, that might be what you get.
And scalpe
This scientist looks like he's never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
😳🤣
Yeah it's like he is never going to desert me either.
You got me Rickscrolled
Never gonna run around and desert you
@@Andrewltfanai💀
rabies is horrifying, not only did it get my boy old yeller but they were right to put him down; if you get rabies, by the time you're symptomatic you're already toast
Hey now, there's one case where someone survived without severe brain damage. My source is I read it somewhere once, I think.
I was bitten by a baby raccoon about 10 years ago. I didn't THINK it broke the skin (through gloves, didn't bleed). The next day, my finger had swollen to an enormous size, so I went and got shots. Without health insurance at the time, those six shots earned me a $30K hospital bill (negotiated down to ≈$1,400). But I'm alive, I have a loving wife and a beautiful daughter, and all of that could never have happened if I'd ignored the possibility of infection.
@coreymartin6363 there have been a few cases worldwide (less than 20) who survived rabies using a controversial treatment protocol called the Milwaukee protocol. So far though, these survivors have been children. No adult has survived rabies even using this treatment.
@coreymartin6363 overall is a death sentence. Like being hit be lightning. Sometimes, you can live depending on how it happens.
Except 90% of ppl hit by lightning survive@@shawncooper8131
@shawncooper8131 While an apt description, I believe that the survival rates for getting hit by lightning was actually way better than showing rabies symptoms. A quick google search says 90% survive getting hit.
Why does he look like a younger version of an older version of himself in the 80s
He looks like an average American of British heritage. All you white Yanks look like this.
Because he never gonna give you up?
Never gonna let you down
Rabies is terrifying because once you get to the really obvious symptoms, ie fear of water, you're done, it's already too late
Stop giving rabies ideas pls
LMAO
Imagine if it evolved quickly somehow tho. That's another zombie movie for sure
@@Steeze111that movie has been made already, it’s called 28 days later. The mutated virus has a different name in it called the rage virus. I love that movie.
@bert5376 dang I didn't realize that's what it was in that movie xD that really makes it more creepy tho since it seems kinda possible
Too late. I've seen the video now. You better run while I'm still allowing you.
Sincerely,
-Rabies.
One important thing about rabies, to those who don't know: rabies like to sit and wait in your spine after infection. The incubation time is unpredictable, and it can sometimes take years before symptoms show. If there's a possibility that you have been infected with rabies, seek medical attention *immediately.* As long as you are asymptomatic, rabies is entirely curable, and you're good to go. The moment you begin to exhibit symptoms, you are almost certainly dead (seek medical attention anyway, but don't get your hopes up).
That’s partially why I love Dying Light, it’s virus was based off of rabies
Best part of Dying Light is you can see why the infected were a threat.
It isn't even just the volatiles, but other specials running amok.
I can totally see them taking out areas with only the prepared being able to survive.
Not like everyone is equipped with high intensity UV lights.
Everyone is gangsta in a tank till it chugs through all yer gas, and requires getting out to refill.
Can't wait for the Beast update.
Zombies?
Parkour!
I guess the Gadoids based it on rabies, yes
Boring idea though. Fungus was more interesting.
"We have really good vaccines for it... right now. "
I think more people need to think about what those last two little words mean in this context.
Truth. Rabies being a killer is what stops its transmission rate. Most either get help right away or just die. 😅
@@TheDarkPacific
Yeah, but what if it mutates….
@@baron6588 good thing its basically extinct in many parts lf the world. i think the only places its somewhat common is wildlife in north america(which is fine due to low contact rates and smaller populations, fast disease course) and southeast asian dogs(very scary imo, big population in close contact with not only a lot of humans but many other animals that can carry it).
@uuh4yj43
Bro I live in South East Asia, you don't have to tell me twice lol.
That we used to not have treatments for it, which we now do.
Here's the best part: they leave the nervous system alone. Thus, if it did affect people, then you'd still be sentient while puppetted.
Thanks for the two sentence horror story 😅
What do you mean? Who is they? The brain is (the main) part of the nervous system?
@@GermanNightTrain the fungus ignores the nervous system. The brain and brain stem are ignored, while the fungus controls the muscles. Thus you are alive and lucid while being controlled until you die.
Ooo so half-life 2 zombies then?
That's not correct, it totally impacts the nervous system
"... for now" 😬
Fungi is already adapting to warmer environments tho. Give it a couple decades and we are done for.
In "The last of Us" game lore, it's kinda hinted at in the first game that it was fungal infection made in a lab, likely with military funding, as they said it started in the city, and the neighbor that you first see that's infected was a scientist who worked in the city.
They were likely working on it as a mind control method, as the parasitic mushroom grows on the brain and effects mood and personality.
Further proof that it was man made in a lab, was the military response time.
The only thing that bugs me about these declarations that it’s impossible (and it doesn’t bug me that much, these are experts in a field I comparatively know nothing about) is that it doesn’t account for climate change.
This can’t happen now because humans are too warm internally to allow a fungus to do this. The problem is that the second this fungus evolves heat resistance because of climate change then it’s a theoretical possibility and that’s horrifying.
Theres still a lot more adaptation required before they take over a complex nervous system like a mammal, let alone a human. More over, that adaptation actually has to give some increased odds of reproduction beyond what they already have and it would need to be pretty immediate for that very long process to even begin
Insects watching this video: *worries*
‘Right now’
It's a serious topic and an informative video, but this mans hair is just perfect. Looks like a gdamn lego-piece, and I say that in the best way possible I friggin love lego
Well put.
That's sooo cool I haven't think about it that way
Those 28 days later would be a true nightmare
"Right now" thats key words for you.
"right now" great thanks for the new nightmare, michel scott was right
Dont worry about as long as the fungus does not have to adapt to temperature that is similar to the human body heat
Tbf the post didnt say that specific fungus, only that its possible a similar parasite could evolve.
Everyone needs to take parkour classes now.
Those who refuse to worry and tell other not to as well are the very reason disasters can be so disastrous. Just because it can't happen rn doesnt mean something can't change in a bit that makes it a going to happen. But the only way to truly prevent it is to be prepared for the just in case scenarios. Bc if you ignore and avoid possibility you help solidify its inevitability.
You’re ignoring the science here. Despite outside factors changing like climate change, these fungi would still need to evolve to infect something not at all related to what they prey on which would take at least thousands of years but more likely millions.
‘Brought to you by someone definitely not infected by the TLoU cordyceps fungus’
Insects watching this must be sweating bullets right now
To my knowledge, there has never been a recorded instance of a human transmitting rabies to another human by bite. Some symptoms that manifest are hydrophobia and hypersalivation, as well as agitation, vomiting and fever.
thats the "dumb" rabies. thats the form humans get
sometimes dogs or wild animals get this version, too.
My favorite non-fiction book posits that rabies is one of the cultural inspirations for zombies...as well as vampires & werewolves! Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
For the breifest of moments I thought this was Hank Green
Ants gotten smarter too, i read somewhere, some ant colonies would cover themselves with certain substance so they can avoid being infected by the fungus. They usually send that 1 ant away if they are infected. Also another smart move by ants.
So, what you are saying, our department should focus on combining the two
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if that's part of the in-game lore. The lore already hints that it was a man made infection.
DayZ got this spot on.
I think the whole point of using a fungus for the plot of TLOU is that preventative measures for fungal infections are quite limited compared to viral and bacterial assaults. I believe they said as much in the start of the series that the very reason it's so dangerous is that people are so nonchalant about fungal predators. Now obviously a series and reality aren't the same thing but it was a clever justification because it turns your rationalization against you :p
If you've seen a canine or even a person affected by rabies, it's terrifying.
Canines especially can't drink water, but bite.
The only thing is you eventually die, unlike the modern-day zombie infection we all think of.
I think a really good "zombie virus" for a story would be something that combined the qualities of rabies and prion diseases, like mad cow disease, because there is no known treatment for transmissible prion diseases, and prions are very hard to destroy.
If we needed this video, we are already lost.
Bro looks like a young Jorge Lucas with his old hair
The Last of Us: 🚫
28 Days Later: ✅
I'm more worried about valley fever
I had a yeast infection once.
Let's hope that this never mutates at all ever towards humans. Ever
I didn't know insects are cold blooded
I never thought of rabies as a zombie like infection, but it makes perfect sensd
All it would take to cause a zombie apocalypse is for rabies to go airborne
Holy crap, it's White Kuwabara!
Wtf? Why did you have to add "for now" at the end? I didn't need that thought.
A prion disease spread through saliva or blood would make a lot of sense
To be fair rabies can be treat with vaccination before symptoms show up so basically for nay suspicious bites you should get the rabies vaccination.
Lies, he works for umbrella
It only takes one mutation
You only think that because of media. In reality it would likely take at least tens of thousands of years for a fungi to evolve to infect something that is not at all related to what they infect. A single mutation would not do that because that’s just not how evolution works. Not everything evolved just because it had a random “mutation”. Most things evolved gradually over millions of years, like these fungi which have only ever infected invertebrates for all the millions of years that they’ve likely existed.
what you SHOULD worry about is humans reverse engineering things like ophiocordiceps to create something out of a nightmare.. there is more fungi and parasites out there that do these sort of functions.
You can't controll a virus...
To be clear, no human has EVER bitten (or wanted to bite) another human under the influence of rabies.
I never quite understand why people wanted zombies to be a real life thing, when the very concept of it has already broken the first law of thermodynamics
What about the fungus Candida auris?
Candida is a type of yeast that is not at all related to the Cordyceps fungi that infect insects. Candida causes Candidiasis in humans but that infection is nothing like the zombie-like mind controlling infection that Cordyceps causes in insects.
you can tell when you say the idea, "the bug infecting fungus quardeceps can infect people" that there is just a twisted scifi wish there that it was possible.
like saying dragons existed...no, you just really wish that.
"right now"
bro said fungchai
Yall remember,ever the deer virus?
So it won't be the Last of Us, it'll be Left 4 Dead
We live in the reality where we dont have the "cool" "ish" Zombies. We get Fent zombies, pretty underwhelming
Didn't the cordicept infected a sheep like...5 years ago?
No. There has never been a case of any fungi related to Cordyceps infecting any kind of mammal.
So... If it could survive in our bodies, then...
I wonder what would happen if we were to take a big amount of this fungus and placed it inside a dead body .
Planet is getting hotter so fungi may make a comeback, if they do we're screwed.
ophiocordyceps unilateralis this fungus?
Yes that's the name of it
So when do we get warhammer orcs?
Dont give people the idea to start a zombie apocalypse with rabies
And there are no recorded people biting with rabies
What if rabies is what inspired zombie stories
Both are great candidates to later become what can be described as a zombie infection. Fungus are evolving to withstand higher temps due to climate change. And virus mutating happens all time 😅
for now...
"Wouldn't be worried because it infects insects"
Yea but WHAT IF
Why call Fungi, Funjai? It's Fungus, not Funjus!
So we not going to talk about the guy that has done experiments with this fungus with human blood to adopt to human.
No rabies in Aus, we are zombie free
What if rising global temperatures causes a gene mutation for survival in higher temperatures, in turn higher survival in the warm blooded creatures?
But we are finding more and more fungus that are becoming capable of growing in the human body. Dead or alive. As temperatures rise, they will continue to evolve.
Fun-Ji...
Funji lmao
FUNJY????
I have been saying these all my childhood about zombies M more worried about rabbies cause if they evolved we done.
That's adapting not evolving the fungus has already evolved to be a perfect system and if it did people wouldn't eat people they would climb trees to deposit spores 😂
CWD is progressing. That'll be an absolute niightmare.
Welcome to our fungus overlords.
Rabis is for vampires. Not zombies.
Zombies are kinda just vampires with no upsides.
No one has ever mentioned a rabies vaccine for me or my children. Why is he acting like we are all protected? 😭
Plus it would probably kill people after a while so we’d only have to worry for a little bit
Lets breed rabies and the fungi virus.
DONT JYNX IT
So less last of us and more 28 days later
Isn't evolved rabies zombie apocalypse like, what Left 4 Dead is?
Time to hybrid the Rabies virus and Zombie Fungus
Hey, don't give the chinese ideas.
Last time they had one of those we ended up with corona.
Young George Lucas?
Come to my store some night.Zombies are real.
I mean, rabies kills you before you have the chance to bite anyone lol
Why you say fun-ji? It's pronounced fun- guy and fun -gus. Not fun-ji and fun -jus
i say PILZ and now you.
Then my guy hasn't seen the actual start to the game where climate change forced the fungus to withstand warmer temperatures.
not gonna happen, no matter what. you CANT get such a heat resistance in the time this fungus have until it is to warm and they will die out.
THATS the problem with climate change, it is to fast. such a change not within 1000 years but within 100 years is REALLY challenging.
A warmer climate does not directly correlate to being able to infect completely different and far more complex animals with completely different nervous and immune systems. That evolution would take countless generations to happen if it did. I’m sorry, but the story of that game was created by people who wanted to make a compelling fictional story. Not by scientists who only added plot to the game if it was something that could happen in real life.