How Did Bubonic Plague (Black Death) Actually End? 

This man throwing shade so hard he turned the day into night.

I did a paper on the plague in high school. There are actually three types, pneumonic, bubonic, and septicemic, affecting the lungs, the lymph nodes, and the blood.

Bruh imagine how scary it was living in this time. People not knowing anything and just dying. 1 out of 3 people died to the plague.

I’ve always had an odd fascination with the Black Death. You gave us a lot of information in a very entertaining way. Great job!

“The Black Death killed a higher proportion of the world population than any other singular event in history” The music:🥳😄😁

One thing it always amazes me to think about is if you are of European descent, all of YOUR direct ancestors (both adults and children) SURVIVED the plague long enough to have children themselves.

"In a situation that would never be repeated again, they just went about their business hoping the problem would fix itself before really affecting them." Why has no one commented on this?

People back in the time: "Jesus would have killed a large amount of people! especially Jewish people" Jesus: **is Jewish**

"In a situation that would thankfully never be repeated again" I had to check the date to see if the irony was intentional

Covid when it meets the black plague: im such a huge fan

Interesting that I’ve never heard of that version of the nursery rhyme. Where I’m from we called it “Ring around the rosey” and each line is a reference to the plague. “Ring around the rosey” (A red spot or ring would develop before the blisters) “pocket full of posey” (the pockets of victims were stuffed with or covered with flowers to reduce the smell before they could be dealt with) “ashes, ashes, we all fall down” (refers to the practice of mass cremation which was discovered to help limit the spread of the disease)

This is absolutely why we need to take the situation of antibiotic resistance very seriously.

People with fever, nausea, vomiting, joint pain in 1340: I have the plague People with headache in 2021: I have the plague

It amazes me how they can make so much content from the same topic

I didn't know that the Bubonic Plague was still around, I learned that literally today when I saw another video by Vice about the return of the Plague in Madagascar in 2013 when it killed multiple people in a isolated village. Very interesting video.

I remember the words being, “Ring around the Rosie! Pocket full of posies! Ashes, ashes, we all fall down!” I’m not sure where that came from, but that’s how it was sang when I was little..

In 2020, instead of flying cars, we were re-teaching people and reminding them to.. wash their hands

This guy keeps me company when I’m constipated

Can’t imagine what everyone went through around that time.

I am amazed by how clearly this guy explains stuff. It only takes 9 minutes.

"never have to worry about a pandemic tearing through the world again..." painfully ironic😂

"Unless Gwyneth Paltrow is your medical professional, we generally expect better medical advice" *OOF*

I can’t wait to see the video that says “how COVID ended” in a year or two

compared to what we going through now... lol

"The disease killed so many people so quickly that it run out of victims". This made me laugh.

It’s actually insane how quick it spread considering the method of transportation back then

This made me cry :)Great video!

I love that at the very beginning of this video they talk about how deadly the plague was while playing inspirational music in the background

After watching this video COVID doesn’t seem that bad anymore

*Alternate Title: How The Black Death Met Its Own Death!*

I enjoy watching your videos new info learning everyday

Corona: I’ve killed the most people Black Plague: Hold my rats

So when humanity was beheading its fellows, burning "witches" at the stake, and in general being savages, the black plague stepped in and said, "Hold my beer."

funny thing is I'm actually learning this in my social studies class now, couldn't have been a better time

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Great vid and info! Only thing is the music was one constant crescendo!- it was stressful, like a 10 minute epic movie moment that won’t end… maybe try some different music? Made this wonderful video tough to get through. ☮️

The music is way too happy and inspirational for the topic of this video

Laughed way too hard when Gwyneth Paltrow showed up:”Goop goop goooop goop goopgoop….!”

Very informative video. Kudos. (Although the music was pretty annoying.)

I just asked this question to myself and found this video days later, wow 🔥

Love how the video was a low-key roast of Gwyneth Paltrow.

7:03 for a brief moment you can see that there is no body of the guy, it appears only after a moment

Good information

It's a miracle we have endured through all these many different things and with shorter lifespans to deal with it all

I've heard another explanation not mentioned in this video. What medics at the time saw, was that after the last outbreak in 1666, grand epidemics became ever rarer and then the single cases too disappeared. The development started in West Europe and went East, the last major epidemic in Russia was in the late 18th century. It looked something started up in West Europe during the late 17th century and spread east, something unfavourable to the disease. Then it was noted that something happened with the rats of Europe during this time. The species black rat (Rattus rattus) vanished because it was outcompeted by the brown rat (Rattus norwegicus, it really is the scientific name), animal experiments has shown that these two species are inveterate enemies and when they meet the black rat will almost always come out worse. Infected with the bacteria Yersinia pestis both species will fall ill. But now it shows that these two rat species are predominantly infected by two different flea species. While the black rat flea will bite any animal once hungry enough (because the bacteria is clogging its guts), the brown rat flea is unlikely to bite any animal other than other rodents. Both species of rats come from the east. But while the black rat came to Europe during Roman times from the Middle East - and caused the Justinian plague paving the way for Slavonic and Moslem conquests - the brown rat came from southeast Asia when international trade on the high oceans began in earnest during the 17th century. And this maritime trade came to the western Europe first. So the well-nigh eradication of black rats in Europe by brown rats taking over the ecological niche made grand scale epidemics impossible. Single epidemics of plague nowadays are found where there still are large populations of black rats, not in Europe that is but in India and Africa.

I remember it as “ ring around the rosies. Pocket full of Posey’s. Ashes ashes we all fall down”

I USE THESE AS TEACHABLE MOMENTS WHEN MY KIDS WONDER ABOUT FLEAS AND PLAGUES. TY

The little random comments from the cartoons made my night. 😂 Following!

2:24 What a interesting conversation between couple.

I always thought the "pocketful of posies" was a way to deal with the stench of death everywhere.

These videos are the kind your history or science teacher might put on but algorithm got me watching it by myself haha

I hope one day in the future someone else makes a video like "How did the Corona Pandemic end" lol Edit wtf: So many Americans in the replies explaining that covid isn't real and is a whole conspiracy... You do realise that people like us live in places that exist in other parts of the world too, where we see terrible conditions and many many people dying because of poor handling by our governments?

"Bring out your dead!" ~ Monty Python. :)

"We won't have a pandemic again" 2019 " oh really that's what you think"

“However in a situation that would never be repeated again, they just kept going on about their business hoping the problem would fix itself before it really affected them” Oh…

That "Entire point of their religion" part was funny. You can't have many jokes like that anymore, it feels

I did a 12 page essay on the bubonic plague in senior year, and not once in my life have I heard Ring Around The Rosie sang that way in my life lol that threw me off for a second😂

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The shade at the start 🤣

Definitely glad that this channel keeps uploading videos!

Alright! My day is made

I love your videos

7:03 Mr. Noble's entire body went ghost there for a moment

It never actually ended man, there's still infested creatures in Colorado alone. The prarie dogs are the sole reason we don't interact with much in the fields.

This man burned Gwyneth Paltrow while talking about the most tragic event in history, I tip my hat to you

The Music In this video sounds great I wonder if a Soundtrack is available...

Man the music is a piece of art

“in a situation that would never be repeated again, they kept going about their daily lives.” 💀

Crazy how this channels pumps out so many high quality videos

Its 2 am And this is what I'm watching Thank yoh for keeping me entertained lol

0:42 lol the sarcasm

I have been searching for this for AGES , thank you so much.

The 'pocket full of posies' wasn't a talisman. It was to disguise the pervading smell of death and decomposition in the streets, a bit like wearing perfume.

I learned "ring around the rosie, pockets full of posies, ashes, ashes, and we all fall down" and I was taught that pockets full of posies represented how plague doctors would put flowers in their mask to hide the smell of rotting corpses and that ashes, ashes was meant to represents how the corpses of plague victims were burned

Love this

The way I learned the nursery rhyme was “Ashes, ashes, we all fall down,” the ashes would refer to people being cremated as opposed to people needing tissues Edit: It's pretty funny that this reply section has just turned into people saying how they learned it

0:41 "A situation that thankfully would never be repeated again." I see what you did there. 🤔

Got me at 4:46 with that Austin quip, lol

*very good Video*

I thought it was ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down... I distinctly remember the rhyme going like that

"....as most students discover after freshman year in their college dorms." Haha..classic

I just learned about this in History class today and RU-vid recommended seems kinda weird 🤨

At 7:03 buddy has no body for a second haha

It’s interesting when reading/watching about pandemics that have happened before, most notably the Spanish flu and the bubonic plague, how there starts to be trends. For example the closing of stores and churches, and the instinct to isolate the sick and move away from them, even though that plan could have failed. A lot of what happened during past pandemics especially the Spanish flu are happening again today, isolation, quarantine, closing of business to name a few.

"never have to worry about a pandemic tearing through the world again" I think this video is from a parallel universe

The bgm makes the first few minutes look like a joyful video

I'm Italian and I wanna correct the Italian word at 5:38, he says "quarantino". I don't know if my ancestors would say that word like that but in the current language we say "quarantena". Unfortunately it doesn't change the awful meaning... Stay safe!

This just popped up in my RU-vid feed and it's crazy because I just read that a 10 year old in Colorado died of the plague this week.

This is the only pandemic i really and interested in learning, Thanks for the Vid🙌

Basically there was an 80% mortality rate and those that survived were able to develop immunity’s while re-populating.

learned more from this channel then school

It’s “Atichoo”, Atichoo”. Not tissue, it refers to the sound of a sneeze. There were no such things as tissues in the 14th century.

"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; Black Death's wings flashed ahead." Anna Akhmatova

Most scholars don’t know where the nursery rhyme came from. It first appeared in print in the mid 19th century and speculation that it was related to the Black Death did not appear until the mid 20th as a post World War 2 invention. The reason for this is that the symptoms described in the song aren’t especially fitting with those of the plague. Some speculate that it was literally dancing around a rose tree and we all fall down refer to curtsying.

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I never knew this show had so many little funny things in it. A very nice touch to the video 👍

Ummm I and my friends in the early 90's late 80's would say we all fall down dead at the end of the nursery rhyme.

I like how he said we won't have to worry a out another plague to go through yet this was 3 months ago while covid is going on

I subscribed for the sarcasm 💕

I live in Arizona. Desert squirrels have been found with Bubonic Plague here. Its still around.