Explore the history of humanity’s deadliest diseases, and find out how our progress and innovation exposed us to new pathogens.
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Since humanity’s earliest days, we’ve been plagued by countless disease-causing pathogens. Invisible and persistent, these microorganisms and the illnesses they incur have killed more humans than anything else in history. But which disease has been the deadliest? Dan Kwartler digs into how human progress and innovation throughout history exposed us to surprising new maladies.
Lesson by Dan Kwartler, directed by BASA.
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i summon john green to tell us about TB
If it were not for antibiotics I would be dead. I'm grateful to Sir Alexander Fleming for discovering penicillin. Fleming definitely deserved winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine and getting knighted.
TDS has changed politics and pop culture forever.
Well Ted Ed In those days only rich can get cutting edge medical care it's still True Today
Ted-ed put some real effort on their sound effects.
1 second into the video.. it already lost all its validity..
humans aren't apes never were, and never will be, and darwinism is a joke that darwin himself dismissed.. and with all the silly number riddle and mathematical waste you keep throwing at us.. i think it's about time i moved forward..
it was a long journey .. and it reached its official stop.. goodbye Ted-Ed… you might have taught me many things.. but you grew so old. it's about time i moved on.. unsubbed.
God loves you and takes care of you so that this message reaches you. God is the one who created this great universe and has complete control over it. And the greatest loss that a person loses in this life is that he lives while he does not know God who created him, knowing the Messenger of Muhammad, the last of the messengers, and the Islamic religion, the last of the heavenly religions. The great intelligence, before you believe in something or not, is to read it, study it, and understand it well, and then you have the choice to believe in it or not. I advise you on this now before you do not have time to do that.
And if we all actually work together we can develop even more cures for even more diseases
It would be good to mention the anti-vaccine movement, since it's gaining ground and impeding group immunity.
I know one that won’t be on here. 😂
I love your videos (been doing it for several years now <3), but why are the maps in this one so bad?
I know it's ok to keep them simple for this context since there's no need for details, but some parts are just gruesomely wrong.
Honestly I think you are to kind when it comes to tuberculosis and malaria. There are no good reason that this many people die from these diseases, and that have been no good reason for years. We do not lack the technology and we could easily make a huge deference in these numbers. But we (us watching yt) have never known anyone that died from tuberculosis or malaria we don't need to face that reality. We know people that have died from cancer and people living with diabetes, but the sad truth is that we keep the prices of diagnoses and treatment higher than the cost because we think it is fair to turne a good profit on lifesaving medicin. We probably spend more money on useless supplements and unnecessary protein powder than it would cost save 99% of all these deaths.
Humanity’s earliest days were not what you’re portraying. 🥱👎👎👎👎
"I can avoid this dangerous, deadly disease simply with a little, safe injection. NAAAH"
Antivaxxers
I’m expecting John Green to watch this
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Other Humans? Avarice? Stupidity? Cruelty? Inequality? An unholy concoction of all these ingredients?
Too bad so many people who had ailments didn't believed in vaccines which later on caused their deaths. This is an era of modern medicine, let's take advantage of it.
Two questions.
1) how do they know what the worlds population was in the 1300’s when they didn’t even know that the new world (Americas)existed?
2) is there any evidence of any pandemics or diseases that effected the new world populations and how did that effect the Europeans that came to the new world without any natural immunity?
I thought the thumbnail was a chicken or chick with a hole in its stomach and someone was poking around it
Wuhan Covid wasn’t one of them, yet we locked down the global economy, just so the Democrats could use it to vote Trump out of office.
That’s why he should’ve cleaned the swamp during his first term.
i appreciated the dysentery sound effect😂 toot toot
Accessible to all means also to hostages held by terrorist organizations!
4:30 definitely triggered some PTSD in SS13 players