They're not exclusive. Off-topic, the Gates Foundation convinced the Oxford lab to collaborate with AstraZeneca instead of freely distributing the patent for its Covid vaccine, because Bill Gates loves private-public partnerships instead of just public ones. Not only did AZ's vaccine become more expensive for poorest countries, AZ made a mess of the testing and still hasn't gotten FDA approval, for instance. Another great thing Gates did was to spend half a billion dollars, that's a B, in the decade up to 2015 to develop a numerical rating system for teachers. While it was a complete failure, it'd already been widely adopted to shut down thousands of school nationwide, fire or harass untold number of teachers, and is still widely used today in teacher evaluations. Despite the bad economy, the teaching pipeline is seeing record low number of applicants, while every state is now short of teachers, which again in unprecedented. Thank you, Bill Gates. P.S. BTW, don't forget: Jeffrey Epstein.
In the end every form of farming is a risk (at a certain extent). Since the animals there are likely to become vectors of diseases between wild animals and us.
And the insane antibiotic use within most farms which is fuelling anti microbial drug resistant pathogens. People tend to think buying free range/organic avoids both cramming and AMR issues. It usually doesn't.
Bill Gates isn't a medical or public health policy professional, he's just a rich guy with no real expertise, so it's kinda wild to promote anything he has to say about pandemics or anything else for that matter..
hey bill gates, how about a waiver on patent rights for vaccines during covid? how about donating free vaccines to poorer countries? how about working with the experts at WHO instead of trying to strongarm them with your money/influence?
Google says: "Specifically, historians have speculated that the fleas on rats are responsible for the estimated 25 million plague deaths between 1347 and 1351. However, a new study suggests that rats weren't the main carriers of fleas and lice that spread the plague-it was humans." Looking further the most articles are about how a computer model simulating the spread with lice on humans is closer to the real life data than the program simulating transmission from fleas on rats to humans.
So how can you combat a problem like this effectively without just wiping out the infectious animal species? It can take a long time and resources for vaccines. As well as antibiotic resistance.
I would expect that with MRNA vaccines we can have vaccines quickly developed for the most likely possibilities, and then quickly modify them as needed when outbreaks start. They're much faster to develop and change than traditional vaccines.
well there's nothing we can really do to get rid of those species, but usually they aren't the main problem, because most infectious specie has either already transmitted its pathogens to humans (and therefore we are immune) or they are still able to live far from humans, that's why the destruction of their habitats is the reason there's more pandemics now so the solution would be to stop polluting and invading the natural habitats of these species, and obviously improve our worldwide healthcare and sanitation systems
It's a multifactorial problem. We need to come at it from all angles. In my opinion humans encroaching on these species habitats is one of the biggest problems, as is housing large scale (read factory farming) in areas that can amplify spillover from wild to domestic animals and then potentially humans. Humans are the problem, not the animals that are merely adapting to the conditions that are forced on them.
@@petahitchens5365 Exactly. Getting rid of the animals, even if successful, is completely useless. Another species will fill the void. That's how nature works. No niche will be left unexploited.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, have we ever tried to find a way to give these infecious creatures stronger immune systems? Like distributing a vaccine so when they have babies there's fewer carriers being added to the gene pool of that species? Or is it much much more complex than that...
Only some antibodies get carried through genetics, so it would be very inefficient, and also, there is a small chance that the animals with such a simple immune system develop an immunity by a vaccine.
I am not educated on the matter. But if I understand this correctly a vaccine would not work at all. This is because a vaccine is used to train your immune system to learn to identify and respond to a virus or similar virus. If your immune system however isn't even capable of responding to the virus than it will not work because it is simply incapable of doing it. Vaccines themselves are not some kind of anti-biotic or virus killer. It simply helps train your immune system to better and more efficiently respond to a virus.
like puppies? love is infectious. are you capable of not worrying? of not knowing you are your fears? or are you not capable of happiness? of knowing you aren't your thoughts about whatever...etc your future hopes? bc you're in MY life. this video is in MY life. you'll get every bit what you give, gave, and are giving, back. "...we can hopefully put the brakes on..."
I think a badass rebel biker gang of mice with the slogan, "live fast, proliferate, and die young" is my new favorite animal depiction. I seriously want that picture and slogan on a patch or sticker.
Or just maybe we could stop spreading on the last bits of wild areas on earth. Leave some space for the 99.9% of the other species might be a good way to avoid zoonosis.
That's never going to happen, seeing that "we" aren't a hive mind that collectively reaches a decision and follows through on it. Different people are doing different things and are affected by different things. You can't treat a group of people the same way you would a single person. Their characteristics and behaviors are completely different.
Yeah, why spread out? Just keep cramming more and more into already overcrowded cities. It's not like there are any negative effects from that approach...
The country that Bill lives in, and has the most political sway over, also had the worst pandemic response of any developed nation, and has the highest death toll of any nation on Earth.
Title: Why Are Some Furry Creatures So Infectious? Me: Oooh a video about why we like cats and other cute furry animals so much over others Video: *Talks about infections and viruses* Me: My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined 😥
One possible future pandemic cause is the Lassa fever, which is spread by rats in west Africa. The reason I say this is that Nigeria which is in west Africa will (if current trends continue) surpass the US in population by 2050 which will lead to a very dense and poor region also lots of countries are trading with Africa letting it spread from Nigeria to West Africa and then globally. Also, the disease has a high amount of asymptomatic people at 80%, and if covid has taught us anything very important to let a disease spread.
2:15 - Pity that if this sort of research is conducted, and an outbreak happens, there will be a certain sort easily manipulated into undermining any response because of it.
COVID was/is not deadly enough for it to be taken serious by the world. I think this will hurt a future pandamic in a big way, since "The last one wasn't that deadly, why should this one suddenly be?"
@@LimeyLassen IIRC Ebola was wide spread in Africa, but didn't really effect the rest of the world. And let's be honest: Nobody gives a rats ass about Africa if they can't either enslave them or exploit them.
...Rats were part of human society long before deforestation. You just commented the animals adapt and spread rapidly... but couldn't work out that means they'll fill human biomes regardless of available habitat?
(asdkffofkgjgj I was gonna do that “the title changed” kinda comment but it was already done) Couldn’t animals be somehow vaccinated to reduce the chance of catching/carrying it in their offspring? I know it’s hard but it’s possible right? Or is it way more complicated? sorry I’m just really curious
Its actually happened before, yeah. In Western-Europe rabies was almost entirely eliminated due a campaign that involved oral vaccines left behind in carrion, which foxes (the main scource of rabies in Europe) would then eat.
Not in vegeterian countries. Rats are however common in countries like India. Still they dont cause much trouble except to create holes where life once existed. Huge rats are found in India. Some are big like smaller rabbits or large squirrels..
@@RosheenQuynhWhen I was little I saw rats babies and I have not forgotten that scene..there were too many rat babies that I saw upclose and cudnt stand that feeling of seeing something reddish wettish thing. I cannot see a fresh new flesh uncovered n without a cloth..it makes me feel very I cant explain n stand kind of feeling..I have never liked rats after that. My mother killed rats bravely and I feared them all my life.
Humans gave pigs Influenza in the 90s. Pigs gave us a 3-species virus in turn. Many of these variants have been mutating wildly since then on every farm of the planet, creating several swine flu outbreaks. It's a matter of time until a virus like A(H1N1), H5N8 or H7N9 ends up becoming another pandemic, one that will make COVID look like child's play. But hey, at least we have bacon, am I right?
@@WeissM89Thats weird. Did humans give influenza to pigs? Why and how? I wud think that animals due to them not bathing often were unclean so harbored germs while humans took bath regularly so not that problem causing to anyone. I have not seen research happening on humans who didnt take bath for longer n then they were made to interact with either humans or animals to see if any disease wud spread? Worth reaearching if humans too if unclean for longer cud spread germs or smaller particles to animals or others...suggesting that bath is all what animals and birds too need daily.
It's on our doorstep. There's an avian flu wiping out chickens, ducks, geese, etc. It's beginning to affect the poultry industry, so it's only a matter of time.
@@ishab.6798 Seriously? That's so scary. The Gates Foundation convinced the Oxford lab to collaborate with AstraZeneca instead of freely distributing the patent for its Covid vaccine, because Bill Gates loves private-public partnerships instead of just public ones. Not only did AZ's vaccine become more expensive for poorest countries, AZ made a mess of the testing and still hasn't gotten FDA approval, for instance. Another great thing Gates did was to spend half a billion dollars, that's a B, in the decade up to 2015 to develop a numerical rating system for teachers. While it was a complete failure, it'd already been widely adopted to shut down thousands of school nationwide, fire or harass untold number of teachers, and is still widely used today in teacher evaluations. Despite the bad economy, the teaching pipeline is seeing record low number of applicants, while every state is now short of teachers, which again in unprecedented. Don't forget: Jeffrey Epstein. Look that one up. Thank you, Bill and his fans.
One time, someone told me that Turkey kept so many cats to avoid rats..as if cats wont carry any diseases. That doesnt seem to me a nice way to keep something at bay by having some opponent closer. We can do that with people not animals..like keep closer the enemy of the enemy to make easier the hop to real enemy or create a safe barrier from real enemy.
bill gates making a book like that when he advised against opening vaccine patents is infuriating and you promoting that book is very disappointing. im unsubbing now.
At least there's Corbevax now, an open-source vaccine developed at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. Entirely funded by charity and private investment by drug companies in poorer nations. It's now the number one vaccine in India and Indonesia. I'd love to have a dose, but it's not approved in the US even though some of the trials were done here. Elana Bottazzi and Peter Hotez have a bit of Nobel Prize buzz around them.
So... if I understood the video correctly, we should be wary whenever something that breeds rapidly and only plans for short-term success pops up in our habitat? Gotcha
Podrían usar manipulación genética para estos animales tener un mejor sistema inmune y prevenir enfermedades entre especies, además estos virus indican cierta biocompatibilidad entre humanos y estos animales.
0:20. Or... some lab working on gain of function research of a disease has an accidental release of that disease... and they try to cover it up rather than take responsibility.
@@emmettturner9452 no direct evidence at all. China hasn't released any and probably won't ever release any to not make themselves look bad, so we will never know if its true or not.