The diseases that changed humanity forever - Dan Kwartler

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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.
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@davea6314 6 месяцев назад

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.

@DoctorX17 6 месяцев назад

Thank God he had the curiosity to look at the moldy sample others might have just thrown away! The right genius at the right place and right time has saved countless lives.

@davea6314 6 месяцев назад

@@DoctorX17 Sir Alexander Fleming saved millions of lives including my life. In 2028 at the 100th anniversary of his discovery there should be parades and celebrations to honor him.

@davea6314 6 месяцев назад

@@DoctorX17 Are you a physician? Did you earn a PhD in something? I ask because of your username.

@DoctorX17 6 месяцев назад

@@davea6314 not a physician, just a fan of Doctor Who :) Parades would definitely be great! One of the most important discoveries in medical history deserves great fanfare

@joanhoffman3702 6 месяцев назад

@@DoctorX17Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

@aminetaoussi7372 6 месяцев назад

Glad to be living in an era where vaccination and medication are available

@DefnitelyNotFred 6 месяцев назад

Less glad to live in an era where some people still doubt vaccination and medication, plus climate science 😢

@yellowstarproductions6743 6 месяцев назад

Agreed Edit: I meant agreed Edit#1: sorry forgot to add edits

@starmaker75 6 месяцев назад

Or heck, have medicine that actually works and not make it worse. Not only that but have better knowledge of disease.

@mysterio952 6 месяцев назад

I'm sad that pple trust payed science 😢

@HIFLY01 6 месяцев назад

@@DefnitelyNotFredjust because people don't like 1 vaccine doesn't make the anti vax

@lucianoosorio5942 6 месяцев назад

“I took one from both teams from a disease nobody knew existed. I didn’t leave a mark on history, I French kissed it!” Freddie Mercury

@nsikansamuel710 6 месяцев назад

I'm a champion of the world...

@ultimatebishoujo29 6 месяцев назад

I love that quote

@alexanderveritas 6 месяцев назад

What in the _Ga Ga?_

@rami0036 6 месяцев назад

I didn't understand what did he do ?

@Wired4Life2 6 месяцев назад

@@rami0036 HIV/AIDS.

@athrv1018 6 месяцев назад

This is still prevelant in today's society. The rich are still getting the best care while the poor and working class are being neglected

@ElBandito 6 месяцев назад

Worst of all, some of those poor and working class are anti-vaxxers; the most idiotic people.

@thatreddude7700 6 месяцев назад

Exactly. Meanwhile the rich are completely oblivious to the fact that not only wouldn’t they be rich if it wasn’t for the poor and working class, but without us there would be nothing for them to confirm their status in society, making it null and void.

@sanityforall4021 6 месяцев назад

True, but even the poorest people today are better off than the rich from 100 years ago.

@mageinabarrel802 6 месяцев назад

@@sanityforall4021 no, the very rich of 100 years ago lived better than the homeless and poor do today

@NoName-hg6cc 6 месяцев назад

@@mageinabarrel802Only the very destituted

@peterinbrat 6 месяцев назад

In the 19th century, about one in seven ppl died of TB worldwide..

@yellowstarproductions6743 6 месяцев назад

That is very tragic

@maestroh2986 6 месяцев назад

I often wonder how we survived this long as a species before medical advances. Now I know.

@duckymomo7935 6 месяцев назад

Women can be baby making machines in times of need. They can probably make 30 kids of which only some will survive into adulthood Also humans still have an immune system and can be resilient- it’s just painful for growing up with horrible conditions

@Alizudo 28 дней назад

@@duckymomo7935 My grandfather had 8 siblings.

@amazinggrapes3045 3 дня назад

Well they didn't really "survive". Or rather, just surviving was the best they could do, and people today have gone far past that. There are an outrageous number of people alive today because they aren't dying as regularly anymore.

@allye4228 12 часов назад

⁠⁠@@duckymomo7935😂 That’s physically impossible, and we were never in times of need because we have no predators unlike other animals.

@thefriesofLockeLamora 6 месяцев назад

Accessibility will always be key. One day, hopefully, healthcare will be a right delivered to all without worry of debt

@3Faidonas3 6 месяцев назад

America moment

@Rowanbossart 6 месяцев назад

Atleast you get care. Canadas health care is broken id rather directly pay for health care or insurance then get underfunded bad healthcare while also having substantially higher tax rates

@clayel1 6 месяцев назад

@@Rowanbossarthow is it broken? youd rather pay 4000 for an ambulance?

@Rowanbossart 6 месяцев назад

@@clayel1 we pay for ambulances too, you actually pay for everything except er and long term treatment, again while adding significant tax burden. For example wisdom teeth used to be covered under health care but it’s not anymore, you have to pay for it even though it’s considered a surgery. Oh yeah and you’re not getting a credit or anything for getting necessary health related surgery that was once covered

@clayel1 6 месяцев назад

@@Rowanbossart wow, that’s pretty bad, but considering that you dont need to pay for er how is it worse?

@chitwansingh 6 месяцев назад

Such a John Green Topic!

@KnowledgeCat 6 месяцев назад

Such an insightful video on how diseases have shaped human history. It’s fascinating to see the impact they’ve had on humanity. Great work on this enlightening piece!

@klloydplata4098 6 месяцев назад

Handsoap is like a Superpowered ability thing in real-life world. This is why I hand-washing more than 5 times a single moment.

@CharlotteXMoon 6 месяцев назад

And if we all actually work together we can develop even more cures for even more diseases

@yellowstarproductions6743 6 месяцев назад

True

@mysterio952 6 месяцев назад

Or more diseases to make more cures

@fennynickie5731 6 месяцев назад

What do you mean if WE all work together WTF do you know about medicine

@CharlotteXMoon 6 месяцев назад

@fennynickie5731 Just saying instead of fighting with each other, let's work together to make the world a safer, happier, and healthier place. Please don't go at me

@alparslankorkmaz2964 6 месяцев назад

nice video as always by TED-Ed

@Sunflowersarepretty 6 месяцев назад

Great video! They should've included covid 19 in it too. I'm glad we live in an era where even though we're not invincible we still are able to lead healthy lives and live longer thanks to our modern medicines and technologies and our history.

@yellowstarproductions6743 6 месяцев назад

Agreed

@mysterio952 6 месяцев назад

Covid19? U dont have seen the statistics aight?

@HIFLY01 6 месяцев назад

A +98% survival rate doesn't make covid one of the world's deadliest diseases...

@Sloppy_McFloppy 6 месяцев назад

4:30 definitely triggered some PTSD in SS13 players

@klloydplata4098 6 месяцев назад

Always washing your hands is the most important good and safest way for control and prevention of widespread diseases because proper hygiene to protect, defend and prevent you from getting illness, sickness, or diseases.

@mariekatherine5238 2 месяца назад

Not just hands, but have clean living quarters, clothing, streets, food stuff. Visualize skid row in LA and do the direct opposite. They had several outbreaks of typhus, tb, three cases of plague.

@Ricketan 6 месяцев назад

Ty Ted Ed

@MohammedR-fk2ju 6 месяцев назад

Great animation!

@questionsigetjustlikethat2213 6 месяцев назад

Thank you TED

@tarunpande8974 6 месяцев назад

Good video , Thanks for sharing.

@jasonvoorhees5180 6 месяцев назад

1:39 Sometimes i really just sit and ponder how many awful diseases we suffer from today that really only emerged after we developed plant/animal agriculture

@amazinggrapes3045 3 дня назад

Before agriculture, people likely didn't have routine problems with their wisdom teeth, and people with different sleep schedules and certain neurodivergencies were likely faring a lot better. On top of that, they didn't have the modern problem of being unable to escape from situations they were ill-suited to. (I think there's a book about this, I wish I could remember what it was called). They could just run off somewhere else and start foraging on their own and not have to deal with the others anymore; no fussing with documents, you could even change your name. If you came across a new group who didn't let you in, you could probably find somewhere else to go because the land wasn't all settled and owned. You didn't have to worry about anything but getting food and sleep and protecting yourself; your defense mechanisms and trauma responses would help and not hinder you, your instincts would be well-suited to the world you existed in. Then someone decided they wanted to stay in the same freaking place all the time instead of going where the food goes, and everyone had to perform labor that broke their bodies down. And the food changed, and wisdom teeth became a problem. Well, today we have anesthesia and disinfectants to deal with that. And glasses so you can see if your eyes aren't good. I guess it all evens out 🤷

@Erazon 6 месяцев назад

Please make more videos on diseases ❤️❤️❤️

@yellowstarproductions6743 6 месяцев назад

Agreed

@teabean1518 6 месяцев назад

I’m expecting John Green to watch this

@nilsp9426 6 месяцев назад

The sad thing is that some of the deaths would be preventable simply by opening up patents from already wealthy corporations. The Covid Vaccine was a particularly egregious example: there would have been serious capacities in some countries to produce it, but they had to buy it instead. Meanwhile some nations who donated vaccine doses to other nations even portrayed themselves as benevolent, even though they had the power over these patent laws. For profit pharma corporations surely are important to develop vaccines and should be given a fair price. But when the production cannot keep up anyways, or the lives need saving in a region not rich enough to buy the pharmaceuticals, I think it is simply unjust to ban others from producing the much-needed doses.

@CahyaSeptiyani 6 месяцев назад

If patent is not established, no one will be motivated enough to research and put the time and efforts needed to make it happen. It needs MONEY, RESOURCES, and SCARCE CAPITAL, of course they have to be rewarded by the parents.

@tianoyes656 6 месяцев назад

i appreciated the dysentery sound effect😂 toot toot

@sohankamble8003 3 месяца назад

The More I learn about struggles of people in past, the more I find myself lucky to be existing on this planet

@zartesnilpferd6778 6 месяцев назад

I love your videos (been doing it for several years now

@FantasticOtto 2 месяца назад

They represent a quick overview of the spread of pandemics. As long as the Americas are the left of Europe and Asia is to right, they are good enough, as the location of individual countries is irrelevant in this context.

@Proman2520 6 месяцев назад

That map gap between Gibraltar and Morocco is criminal

@bluemarineboy3091 4 месяца назад

Asia looks wierd

@WWTormentor 6 месяцев назад

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?

@yellowstarproductions6743 6 месяцев назад

Those are good questions.

@tuele4302 6 месяцев назад

Regarding 2), there is plenty of evidence. While the Europeans weren't immune, they were more resistant, being the descendants of survivors.

@eris9062 6 месяцев назад

1) how do we know the population of anywhere at anytime? It’s not like there was wide spread and accurate census data in every country, but through historical records, archaeological evidence and knowledge about living conditions in similar regions estimates can be made. 2) Colonists weren’t immune to diseases such as smallpox, but rather they and their ancestors had developed resistance to it leading to both reduced spread and reduced mortality rates, something the native/indigenous populations didn’t have - hence the increased mortality rates and rapid collapse of many civilisations. So with that in mind colonists who came later would’ve also had the same resistances as they and their ancestors also had to contend with such diseases.

@benyseus6325 6 месяцев назад

@@eris9062that’s not what he’s asking: 1. The census weren’t conducted back then, the population estimates were done in contemporary times by modern scientists and a population was derived from historical accounts and extrapolating demographical trends 2. Although there were “New World diseases” that affected the European colonists when they entered America (like syphilis), they did not kill European colonist on the scale that imported Old World diseases killed New World indigenes and that’s simply because of the fact that North and South America lacked the same farm animals that proliferated these kinds of diseases (like cows, pigs and chickens), until the Spanish introduced them.

@OOOOOOOKKKKKKK69 6 месяцев назад

1 has been answered 2 the mortality rate due to 'import diseases' was extremely high, i believe somewhere north of 90%. So high even that they had to get their slaves from Africa because there was no local suitable workforce.

@ireneqq2300 6 месяцев назад

i summon john green to tell us about TB

@Petch85 6 месяцев назад

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.

@yellowstarproductions6743 6 месяцев назад

So true

@tuele4302 6 месяцев назад

None of that is free. And companies will try to make money. They are not non-profit organizations.

@Petch85 6 месяцев назад

@@tuele4302 And millions of people will die every year so that some people can make more money. This is a fair and just system and we should not try and improve it. The fact is that there lives are not worth a less than 100$ investment and we are find with that. Cause the are not non-profit organizations and they need a few houses, some cars and a boat, cause according to the system that maximizes the total value, why question that? The system is perfect don't try to improve it, and only do something if you are getting payed to do it, get rich or die trying no matter who dies in the process. We need to protect the companies that came up with the treatment all on there own, they really to a risk and how would they get that money back if they eradicated a disease before there patent protection expires. For the grater good.🤦

@kittyaya3425 4 месяца назад

Let’s not forget Measles, one of the most infectious viruses ever.

@fcbnena96 6 месяцев назад

Really liked the music on this video

@0812EL 2 месяца назад

I couldn't locate the exact song. But it's somewhere in this video of music ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PPejZwziFoE.htmlsi=rDYtOCEmoQG2ZdEO

@0812EL 2 месяца назад

Just kidding I found it. But I recommended listening to the other video as well. Both songs are really good. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0W7fvqxVbzU.htmlsi=2ttKeUqeBo8re8CX

@anglaispizza8179 6 месяцев назад

nice

@amazinggrapes3045 3 дня назад

I was surprised to hear that tuberculosis has been with humanity longer than malaria!

@georgereyes3321 6 месяцев назад

Thx for this video I'm learning alot because I'm a grade 5 student thx for all of the lessons Ted Ed and pwease pin me!!!

@phunkymind23 6 месяцев назад

That soundtrack reminds me of The Great British Bake Off.

@-nyx. 6 месяцев назад

who else just loves Ted Ed?

@PLuMUK54 6 месяцев назад

I watched this whilst suffering from Covid. It didn't make me feel any better to be told that disease was worse in the past. The irony is, today I was due to get my vaccination.

@capitan_gorgonzolazola 6 месяцев назад

Worse is an understatement, losing a generation due to disease wouldn't we to uncommon

@CahyaSeptiyani 6 месяцев назад

Your fault for being so left behind. People have gotten vaccinated since two years ago

@rahulchakrabarty9083 6 месяцев назад

Ted-ed put some real effort on their sound effects.

@chimpinabowtie6913 6 месяцев назад

0:16 "...the illnesses they -incur- *inflict* ..."

@majl7917 6 месяцев назад

"I can't go out. I'm sick." Cough, cough. "Boo, you wh*re!" - Mean Girls -

@Nogi520 6 месяцев назад

"You go Glenn Coco" 😅

@majl7917 6 месяцев назад

@@Nogi520 "And none for Gretchen Wieners. BYE!"

@Cyan_Scug 6 месяцев назад

Yay I'm in the VIP club

@Chitose_ 6 месяцев назад

if there's a sequel mention the new dog disease

@mr.x4533 6 месяцев назад

Well Ted Ed In those days only rich can get cutting edge medical care it's still True Today

@shanec3098 6 месяцев назад

tuberculosis? Because if not John Green would like a word with you.

@Walterwhite_cooks 6 месяцев назад

7 years later

@K_ME_GauravMeena 6 месяцев назад

Could anyone please explain the quote at 0:04 ?

@CahyaSeptiyani 6 месяцев назад

Should treat people suffering from the diseases INDIVIDUALLY by personalized approach, since each person has different body and immune system. If we were to treat by acknowledging the type of disease only, we are using a generalized approach, get it?

@ACoolGuyCalledMo 6 месяцев назад

The green water is like. NO! 🌝

@RidireOiche 6 месяцев назад

Other Humans? Avarice? Stupidity? Cruelty? Inequality? An unholy concoction of all these ingredients?

@aanngguusscclliinntt 6 месяцев назад

Fun fact: agriculture was invented a lot more than 12,000 years ago by Aboriginal people in Australia 😉

@zaraghenglish 6 месяцев назад

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@callmethecommentcountess9329 6 месяцев назад

I like it with that’s gonna happen

@deadandburied7626 Месяц назад

Influenza?

@bvillafuerte765 3 месяца назад

2:59 - This clothing was created by Charles de Lorme in 1619 during his work as a plague doctor.

@MisterLiverr 6 месяцев назад

Someone tell John

@thesharkormoriantm274 6 месяцев назад

Imagine if agriculture had never happenned, we would be living much healthier lives...

@myspleenisbursting4825 5 месяцев назад

Don't blame things and project your disappointment of the modern Western world at the discovery of agriculture Urbanisation is to blame, and THAT PHONE

@khaelkugler 3 месяца назад

Wow. This might be the dumbest take I've seen in a month... Without agriculture, you realize we'd still be stuck hunting and gathering resources, living lifespans of around 20-30 years?

@thesharkormoriantm274 3 месяца назад

@@khaelkugler Modern-day gatherer-hunters only spend from 10 to 20 hours a week on obtaining their food, in a much more physically and mentally stimulating work ethos. Their life expectancy (not lifespan, it's not the same) is indeed around 30 years, which is no different than basically every single human society before the invention of modern medicine. Agriculture by the way increased the infant mortality and therefore decreased the life expectancy in peoples who became dependant on it, we know it because of the increase in the amount of infant burials.

@khaelkugler 3 месяца назад

@@thesharkormoriantm274 appreciate the correction on the expectancy/lifespan thing. But does that mean you believe it's healthier to live a shorter lifespan?

@PipMiister 6 месяцев назад

🌻

@rafael-rossi 6 месяцев назад

It would be good to mention the anti-vaccine movement, since it's gaining ground and impeding group immunity.

@Staingo_Jenkins 6 месяцев назад

Video interaction

@user-bn2op3xt1b 6 месяцев назад

Great video, where can we find the sources?

@ariielle0804 6 месяцев назад

Lmao i thought there would be a shoutout to COVID

@colinmccarthy7921 Месяц назад

There have been many diseases over the last 5000 years.Many of them have killed Humans. Over the last 100 years there have been many drugs,treatment, etc.,that has tackled these diseases.I am sure there will be many more diseases in the future.

@edchristianmonte3254 6 месяцев назад

Rifampine, Isoniazide, Pyrazinamide, and Ethambutol.

@ashorsomething3785 6 месяцев назад

This video reminded me to go get my flu shot

@user-jh5gg1dz8n Месяц назад

Penny sick cold fever chkpoox ❤❤

@katelynpeters1161 6 месяцев назад

😮

@TheDaniela3112 5 месяцев назад

Julian Baumgartner? Is… is that you?

@DuhaMohammad 5 месяцев назад

Well, since the 7th century CE, prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) instructed us on how to control infections by saying: *"If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place."* , and *"The cattle suffering from a disease should not be mixed up with healthy cattle"* Peace be upon him, " nor does he speak out of desire. * Indeed it is not except a Revelation which is revealed" [Qur'an 53:3-4]

@planktonfun1 6 месяцев назад

pandemic is equivalent to microsoft update in humans, it makes everyones life even harder

@marinalodi6313 4 месяца назад

I'm so glad we have SUS (universal healthcare system) here in Brazil! This year we are going to start vaccinating people against dengue, all for free!! Viva o SUS!!

@maruku4445 5 месяцев назад

WAIT! You didn't say anything about Covid!

@SnowTree78 6 месяцев назад

6th YAY!

@shoyohinata7621 6 месяцев назад

EARLY

@mustafafahad4486 6 месяцев назад

why can i never comment as the first

@1luvAdriana 5 месяцев назад

Did anybody else hear the diarrhea noise?

@somebody759 6 месяцев назад

I thought the thumbnail was a chicken or chick with a hole in its stomach and someone was poking around it

@Kaiyanwang82 24 дня назад

3:02 that map is abhorrent. I closed the video in that precise moment. Open a book, and I am not talking about the lack of oceania (or americas) which is understandable in that context.

@itsscreech71 День назад

But who can stop the TRUE WORST DISEASE - Empty wallet disease

@matrixorzo696 6 месяцев назад

Early

@chayimadinaandyael 6 месяцев назад

Accessible to all means also to hostages held by terrorist organizations!

@Astor-_- 6 месяцев назад

@-JA- 6 месяцев назад

🫢👍

@Graphomite 6 месяцев назад

Ironic that we talk about the corruption of ye olden times and cringe at such inequality, yet none of it has changed even a little bit. The rich still reap all the benefit while we get cheap scraps. And the ones in absolute poverty get absolutely nothing. Money problems.

@fennynickie5731 6 месяцев назад

Soooo tuberculosis is the answer??

@MarianneKat 6 месяцев назад

Funny enough, effective medical care is a recent phenomenon and the rich only got better due to better home, food, and the ability to maintain this when not working. Otherwise one could argue medical care harmed more than helped.