The (Second) Deadliest Virus

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I hate anti vaxxers

true. this iswhy ihate anti-vaxxers,they'dwant to send us back to those times because of their rebellious idiocy.

This is absolutely adorable

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The round scars on peoples arms are from the polio vaccine not smallpox

there is no good reason for that word to exist

Yes, it's currently used in Italian language as well

@@milckshakebeans8356 which word, cowpox? Do you prefer it to be split like "cow pox"? SMH my head

@@jongyon7192p ment "vaccina" in latin

@@milckshakebeans8356 cuz it kinda looks like another word?

haha true

The moment I heard it I thought I'm adding that to my vocabulary lol

@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 nah bro it's the civilian cells doing their work as usual

​​@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5It's bots like these that make Christianity look like a joke

pathogens: tfym war crimes im just trying to propagate

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You already have 41K subs @@namantherockstar

@@namantherockstar40k now its 50k kids just lying to get subs

​@@namantherockstarLmao did you really think this KRplusr's name is 'Nutshell'?? 😂

Reading about the ways that some people died from smallpox is nightmare material. Some of the most severe cases would result in people having their skin sloughing off. Photos are also terrifying. I just wish I could personally thank all the people involved in making sure that I never, ever had to worry about catching this horrible disease.

May countries still administered the vaccine as late as the 90’s I have a scar from it too.

Were all of these issues because of the vacine or because the forked needle wasn't properly sterilized? Because that can also cause serious infections

​@@d00mnoodleyea I was thinking that too

@@d00mnoodle same, I too want to know

People are protesting against the covid vax, not all vaccines

The problem was it became politicized, information became readily available, and knowledge became more widespread. The covid-19 vaccine was protested against because people were aware. They saw the Vaccine didn't really help anybody, caused more side effects than help, and really only became a tool for politicized control rather than an actual cure. The covid vaccine did not help anybody as people were still contracting the virus, and even showed worse side effects than those who didn't get it. Side effects like heart problems became apparent very quickly, but despite all these occurances, governments still restricted freedoms, stifled conflicting views, and profited themselves off the chaos instead of being a force for good.

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​@@vinsente6752same difference. But...yeah...certain brand is dangerous...

@@vinsente6752 There are people who oppose all vaccines.

That isnt a fun fact. HER family died and she lived in place so that they are not forgotten.
Please vaccinate

She was the only survivor of 9?
My dads little brother is too the only raven haired of the 9 siblings. Everyone knows he is illegitimate.
So... I think she owes her life to the resistance genes of her biologic father.

@@adamnesico It happen more than 100 years ago so idk for sure. 😂 Could also be some recessive genes that others from her family didn't get...

she was the one human that got the genetic mutation to beat variola

luck

Ehhhheh..
Do you have FACTS that show the efficacy and safety of that MMR vaccine?
Factual, unbiased facts I mean. : )
Do you know about the kids who died due to effects of MMR vaccines, or suffered severe consequences, permanent damage to their health? O_o
Why would MMR vaccination necessary for her protection?
How can you "protect" your children? From what? How does that "mytical" protection work? What are the efficacy and safety levels of that protection? o__O

@@Steel9k 1. First link in the description.
2. Far far, far fewer, both in raw numbers and rate-adjusted percentages, than the kids who died or got permanent health issues of measles, mumps, and/or rubella.
3. Kurzgesagt has a video on how vaccines work.
4. Better than 80%, and even that may be lowballing it.

@@The_Epicness9000
". First link in the description."
No, no real evidence that would be adequate in the description.
Its the same old provax propaganda and lies.
"2. Far far, far fewer, both in raw numbers and rate-adjusted percentages, than the kids who died or got permanent health issues of measles, mumps, and/or rubella."
Yeah, because of manipulation of statistics and due to better living conditions, better nutrition, fresh water etc. Not due to vaccinations.
"3. Kurzgesagt has a video on how vaccines work."
A propaganda video, containing lies and not talking about the severe side effects vaccines cause.
"4. Better than 80%, and even that may be lowballing it."
You could just say ~ 4000 %
If you lie, do it proudly :D

​@The_Epicness9000 what did Steel9k say? Their comment is gone

​@@masterofdoots5965 i gather something super fooking dumb

Most anti-immune tactics are about tricking the immune system because it is not intelligent or sentient.

If it responds based of preprogrammed instructions and chemical ones you can easily trick it, sadly.

I love science humor 😭

Yeah the immune system arms race is absolutely nuts. Basically, viruses (and to some extent bacteria) evolve so much faster than us that our immune system gave up and said "ok but whatever doesn't kill us will never be able to hurt us again" and rolled 30 thousand dice. with the obvious shortcoming that all a pathogen needs to do is kill us the first time.

@@iluvpandas2755 It does and doesn't. The adaptive immune system has the capacity for somatic hypermutation. Regions of your DNA that purposefully rip themselves apart and recombine to form new antibodies and the space of possible variant targets is extremely large. It's a programmed process but it allows the immune system to target things it isn't programmed for.

Markers? Dont you mean proteins?

@@rehanhossainalim6038yes same thing probably just different words

It was Edward Jenner

@@rehanhossainalim6038pretty sure by markers he means symptoms. Around that time they wouldn’t have been able to see exactly how viruses ticked and so symptoms would be the way they could tell the difference.

@@Bobbhgf yup he was variolated , one of his teachers (?) was also a milkmaid and said "that's ok, but i had cow pox so I can't get small pox" and that sentence basically set up his life's dedication to the disease

Lucky! Alas, smallpox vaccines stopped being routinely given after eradication was declared. I was born far too late to get it, so I hope smallpox never leaves the labs!

Science humor is the best 😂

Iron Lung lore

All viruses are easy to target except for ones with extremely long incubation period since most viruses are extremely host specific

​@@foolishball9155 It's a bit of a double edge sword; yes, lot of viruses are host specific and therefore are easily detectable. However, viruses also rapidly evolve thanks to how easy it is for mRNA (the chemical method by which a virus hijacks it's host) to mutate due to the lack of proofreading proteins. These mutations could very easily give viral offspring immunities that it's parents never had the luxury of having.
That and while we have one or two kids that take 18 years to mature, viruses have multiple hundreds of progeny that mature seconds after they're born; they just evolve way faster than we do out of sheer numbers

IIRC the main 2 factors were that it was human-only, and that symptoms showed BEFORE it was contagious

@@foolishball9155 Most of the viruses that you commonly get (cold flu and our newest friend the coronavirus) are able to infect a large portion of at least the mammals(ebola and some other nasty stuff would fall into this too, even things that aren't viruses like anthrax, malaria, and the plague). As an additional problem many viruses effectively prevent the immune system from detecting them or normally functioning (HIV, Hepatitis C) which further complicates the issue.
Viruses that we could reasonably have a chance at eradicating would be polio... maybe the viral Hepatitis depending on how much we reduce the price of the magic pill?
Without further technical advancement in either genetic modification, or medical technology (wide band virophages or something) most RNA viruses will be uncontrolled (due to their modification speed) along with those that have a wide spectrum of hosts.

@@RipRLeeErmey yeah it is true that RNA viruses evolve way faster than DNA viruses. There are more DNA viruses but most of them are not deadly disease except the ones that cause cancer like HPV. My point does not hold much water in case of highly mutatable viruses.

Poor girl

@@JokeswithMitochondria l was curious about ur usernamee so cIicked on ur profiIe. Wasn’t disappointed lol

Smallpox is often the reason why people used to have 10 babies, with the expectation that a few will make it to adulthood. People asked how did ancient people live without vaccines, the answer was, they didn't. They just had more babies so more could die without wiping out humanity. Look at cemeteries from the 1800s and you will see a lot of children's graves.

Now I wonder why she wasn't vaccinated

Probably for similar reasons as the idiots today

Congratulations on your success! 😻👍

just pretend ur researching for a kurzgesagt video

Congrats

Reminds me of Exurbia's video

​@@oightKoreraAreEditablewas about to comment about it

@@seecresy oh sorry didnt see the reply, the video? "Misery was" if irc!
If you mean who I was replying to, I was just replying to the comment itself!

How cute

@@JokeswithMitochondrial I was curious from ur usernamee so cIicked on ur profiIe. Wasn’t disappointed lol

is ur icon supposed to make ppl think they have a hair on their screen.

@@JokeswithMitochondriaI got curious about ur username so clicked on ur profile. Wasn’t disappointed lol

@@ListenimtooshyalrightI saw an extremely similar interaction to this on an unrelated video, I think these two users might be bots? Or at least one person

"Open Philantrophy" foundation funded this video, of course they`ll use lurid phrases to advertise furture vaccines.

Yeah well, there’s still other diseases, much, much more terrifying than smallpox

Now if only we can eradicate Tik Tok

​@@Luke_Sandy_High_GroundReally wish it'd get banned, not only is it disruptive it's also making the next generation's attention span go at an all-time low. 😔

Really doesn't matter, let people have fun. Drug, crime, immagration, and war crisises and your worried about people watching 10sec vids over 10min??

*COVID-19@@Luke_Sandy_High_Ground

Lol

@@Christopher-qq4dlwtf

Thankfully he had the Variola Minor

The Scarring is real and I still have scars on my chest and below the neck and even one fairly small but noticeable bump on my neck.

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Begging.

Same here! Between this channel and Snake Discovery, I’m split between microbiology and herpetology. I might just go with both, honestly

I hope everything goes well wether you end up pursuing microbiology or not

Microbiology emphasizes in microbes. Virologist focus on viruses.

ok

Yet covid got out

@@tafazzi-on-discord weird how the people 'making everything about race' are reactionaries like you

It’s because of the things that they have gone through. Ever been a slave? Don’t think so.

@@tafazzi-on-discord Maybe or the Wet Market the Chinese have made telling for sure very hard and we might never know. We do have to find the source animal still as it was not a purely lab created virus I don't even know if we have ever made one of them even.
The Lab is accused of taking an existing virus and making it worse to test things. But this process happens in Nature it how all the virus that hit us in the past were created.
Total funding unknown but China standard does not let outsiders control anything and insists on having part of the pie themselves. Outsiders get to make suggestions that are followed or not depending on the Chinese they don't have the legal power to force anything.
So any lab error was in part China's and failure to shut the City down quick is their flaw as well assuming it even came from there the virus was found at both locations.

Cool info. I like trivia stuff like that.

Something so obvious and yet something I had no idea about. In Spanish vaccine is "vacuna" which is even closer.

Funnily enough the first serial killer to be identified asuch in the 1970s was from _Vaccaville, CA_ and his name is Ed Kemper

Yes, I wonder how it did not fit in the video

That last bit reminds me of a Vsauce video from some years ago.
Edit: nope, it was an exurb1a video, I'm dumb haha.

Smallpox was scary

@@JokeswithMitochondriaur userrname got me curious and I cIicked on ur profiIee. Was not dissappointed ahaha

It’s truly amazing when such a terrible disease that *was* the scourge of humanity for countless millennia becomes a was. But it’s also terrifying that to an extent it still exists. Not just in token laboratories, but frozen in Siberian permafrost, waiting to melt and unleash it’s horror on the world again.

Wow so deep. Then everyone clapped alongside exhurbia

Da, takođe i Srbija ima taj virus u labaratoriji obezbeđen. Yes, Serbia also has a sample of it secured in a lab.

​@@4kta you mean vaccine right? RIGHT?
Serbia shouldn't have sample of the virus

@@4kta ima se, može se

@@4ktaYup. There are two places where the virus is still contained as the video said.
The one one in Siberia, and the one in the USA.
Edit: Siberia, not Serbia… lol

@@Deboned_butter No, it's in Russia not Serbia

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Nice

very nice

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Good

Too bad it's not really that simple with total most of other viruses even if 'we' have had such a wish. Even worse is 'we' don't have such a wish and a large part of 'us' is actively fighting this tendency.

@@ShadeAKAhayate When "we" also create scarier monsters to get better at killing them, and the people who create the monsters supposedly find one in the wild that looks like one they would have created, and the media censors, ridicules, or slanders the people who point this out, then yeah, you're going to get people fighting it, even if every part of the process is in the best interest of the people fighting it.

I had so much fun reading that fact.

@@taxibeforesunsetclips7629 You and me both! 😁

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​@@namantherockstarwork. Saving up for the camera. It would teach you something.

@@miji6267 just report the comment, its a generic spam account. (Ive seen this same comment with the name altered spammed on like 10 different channels)

Yeah kurzgesagt is awesome it’s great how it became such a popular and significant channel from a humble start

i loved them from the start🥹, im glad im still here

It is far less talked about, but in my opinion, the eradication of smallpox is a human achievement on par with the moon landing or the internet. Arguably beyond them.

I got some unfortunate facts about human behavior if you feel that way.

​@@Leyrannabsolutely it's the greatest thing our species has accomplished

@@Leyrann several of the people that got us to the moon or internet probably would have died to smallpox for sure.

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Unfortunately the body in some areas like this one can be tricked into killing it's own cells.

Didnt know cells also do immune cell brutality

there's a lot more roles...you have engineer cells (cd4 helper cells->th1/th2), comms/scouting/foe recognition cells (dendritic cells), interrogation/patrol cells (macrophages/follicular dendritic cells), discipline cells (IL10/cd25 cells), 'automated terminator/robotic division' cells (nk cells), caretaker cells (microglia), heavy weapon/ballistic/grav mines (b cells), self assembly nanobot attacks (complement/MAC), builder/repair cells (platelets), education/teacher cells (mtecs). It's nothing short of awe inspiring the degree of specialisation/flexibility our body has.

The cells in our bodies evolved before joing together for survival purposes (multi-celled organism as opposed to single-cell).
Through cooperation, despite their differences, they feed and defend eachother. Ironic that humans as a species often discriminate against anyone not belonging to their "tribe" when this mass diversity of cells is what holds all of us together. Poetically though, you could argue that multiculturalism and tolerance resides in all of us as we are literally made of these qualities.

@@trololkhil9868 when I studied It in Biology I was in awe at the level of organization the inmune system has with the body. It makes me wonder if how we organized our society where people specialize in a task, is evolutionary emergent from the same system that makes our bodies work like this

Exactly

Never got chickenpox as kid. For adult it can be way more dangerous so was happy to get the vaccine.

As a 90's kid, I don't have 'time bombs' in my body from the mentioned infection.
However I do have serious concerns regarding the chickenpox vax.
Efficacy, safety related, and additionally other concerns.
What ignorant provaxers don't really care above.

We're pretty close to eradicating dracunculiasis, which is caused by the guinea worm, a parasite. Apparently there were only 13 reported human cases in 2022! And that's despite of the lack of vaccines or very effective treatments for it. Plus, it can infect animals too, which makes it harder to eradicate, but animal infections have also gone way down. Humankind went from millions of cases back in the 80s to extremely few these days. It isn't nearly as deadly as smallpox was, but it's disabling, and can facilitate infections with other diseases. It's not as well-known because it's generally more present in parts of the world that tend to get less international attention, but it's a big deal, and hopefully we'll be able to end it in the next few years.

Yeah but it took 200 years AFTER the cure was invented to actually eradicate the disease. Half a billion people from smallpox died because of profits. This is glossed over in the video

I wish humanity would come together more often. We have so much potential, and it's all wasted because of competition and in-fighting amongst the human race. Truly depressing.

Yeah it's inspiri--
Antivaxxers:

​​​@@jongyon7192pseriously. I doubt we could have eradicated covid, (far too infectious) but I know it would have been possible to prevent it from becoming endemic across the world had there not been large amounts of interference towards control measures by the ignorant and selfish. We got lucky that it kept mutating to be less severe over time

BLOONS TOWER DEFEN-

@@trooper3140*N O*

@@trooper3140VIRUS TOWE-

@@trooper3140not apes, old world monkeys

Considering how much we're letting our vaccination campaigns wane, now I want to take a few days off and get one!!

Edward Jenner was a menace, he infected his son with cow pox, and to prove his hypothesis then proceeded to infect his son with the real virus. Luckily, his hypothesis was true

Fun fact: the cow maids never getting it is also the reason for the "beautiful farm maid" thing - most over people would be scarred by smallpox.

And tested that hypothesis by infecting a KID with it!!!

Thanks Edward Jenner

true though💀

the hell im still not “random memer”!!!

I heard a conversation at a bar with people who were anti-flu and measles vaccination but STILL praised the smallpox vaccine.

It's mainly the sponsor you need to be skeptical about "Open Philanthropy"

The quantity of people wearing face masks in this video was astounding.

The answer to “Is this video controversial?” probably depends on the viewers viewpoint of the recent COVID-19 vaccine programs.

The only counter argument i can see here is that they might be using an extreme situation as advertising for relaxing the regulations on drug safety etc..
Unless you're some sort of anime villain character that thinks that smallpox was needed to contain the population growth, and that killing it doomed the planet or something.

Yeah, that's why anthrax is so persistent... It can lay dormant in SOIL for decades! It's literally impossible to eradicate it completely unless we find a way to immunize the actual Earth to remove all the many vectors for infection... 😳
BUT! I have hope that we'll somehow find a way just like they eventually did for smallpox. 👍

Theres only 2 of that cases hovewer. Stop super-high emissions and to cure smallpox

It'd be neat if we actually did

The people in charge don't want unity. You can't make money if there's peace and unity. So we'll keep these endless wars going and continue importing more people than our countries can sustain. Oh and don't forget the race baiting that started just after Occupy Wall Street, complete coincidence though, don't go googling about the mysterious rise in racism politics once the elites learned we knew who was keeping us down.

Not when we have right wing lunatics.

not super high emissions, we saved the ozone layer via banning CFCs worldwide.@@Idoexist._.

Glad im not the only one who thought so

It's too bad that within the same human race, there's anti-vaxers and people against immunity of deadly and threatening viruses, claiming the vaccines have "worse" implications. Some people are such idiots.

Yeah and there are anti-vaxxers. Just imagine, right? A humanity found the way to eliminate the disease, but there are people like "nah it turns me into a cow, I'll better die". And they are still freaking exists.

Nuclear bomb.
The real hammer.

@@Steel9k A double-sided hammer that the human race uses to hit itself, yes. Rather makes me less patriotic for the human race, that one.

@@eoffsock
Don't forget of provaxers.
Those weirdos claim their vaccines work.
In the same time they are terrified of unvaccinated peoole, and wage a war against the unvaccinated, against human rights, self determination and against freedom.
I guess infectious diseases are not the true enemy, since there are still plenty of infectious disease after so many vaccination programmes.
Provaxers must wage their annoying wars. Is it not strange, mate?

They had motivation to abuse and discriminate hundreds of millions who didn't obey bill gates and the WEF

Yes, it was "inoculating". Vaccines didn't yet exist in the form we have today.

read about it in the Science museum in London. Thats how that british guy figured out the connection

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@@JESUSCHRIST-ONLYWAYTOHEAVEN WTF is wrong with you?

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The universities are not for-profit....

@@aaronhpathen why do they charge so much to go if not for profit?

​@@aaronhpatell that to my hex

​@@johh55College admins getting another 100k raise while students struggle to afford housing
the rest should be from taxpayer dollars, not tuition

Kek.. America moment having to pay for uni

Wait, you're right

Variola: *exists*
The global medical community: "Contain that motherf**cker!"

The last known natural case of smallpox was in 1977, in Somalia.
It was declared eradicated from nature in 1980.

Well said. Important points!

Yes, that's what I was thinking, too.

I didn't think that was that essential. The overarching story that we realised we could widthstand cowpox was enough- I just really wish they weree super specific and said "this is the same virus, but the cow-version of it!"
I also wish they had mentioned that birds, fish, reptiles and hundreds of other mammals have their own version of smallpox

I don't know if it's because of this but in my country we use to call a very lucky person as a "lechero (milkman)" or "lechera (milkmaid)". I wonder if this comes from the times where this people were considered to be lucky for not developing such a terrible disease.

In this case, there was the clue that cowpox lesions looked similar to smallpox lesions, so nature was pointing in a 'look over there, this could be interesting' way. Once someone stated looking at cowpox its neutralizing effects were going to be found.

Sadly we do not come together nowadays

@@JokeswithMitochondriahey dude I was curious about ur ussername so I went ahead and cIicked on ur profiIe. Had a good laugh lol

yes it was when we could working together
but we can also weaponized the virus
so what if russia use its smallpox sample to create a new biological weapon ?
so in 1978 even if we were in cold war soviet us and china could work together for humanity common good
i dont see that today, russia turn to be openly hostile to us and we are in logic to be hostile against china, russia and iran

@@JokeswithMitochondriadont worry, we will

The purpose of humanity is to make ourselves the only thing that needs to be feared

With so many more people on the planet, and with so many of them rejecting vaccines, it's unlikely that we will ever completely eradicate another pandemic.

*laughs in covid*

me when people refuse to have a needle poke your body to hopefully eradicate a disease

That's cos smallpox only infects humans, so immunizing humans is all that's necessary. A lot of other transmitted diseases are zoonotic and can jump between species, making them harder to eradicate.

A few determined idiots can kill a lot of people

All thanks to 'emergence' simple things creating something more complex together. From the quarks to the atoms, to molecules to cells, tissues and organs and eventually you. From you to your local environment, from that to societies to a species. Like letters in a word, a sentence in a book. It's cool that these simple things create such complex outcomes!

Folks go on about the perfection of creation.
I point out auto immune responses and how our bodies defense's can overwhelm our ability to heal trying to fight disease or even injury.
They tell me it's a lie. I have to point to smallpox. It hits us hard, fast, from within our immune system, breaking the chain of natural responses to illness for profit.
They claim Smallpox doesn't exist. I point out that was one of Mankinds greatest achievements and we need to do it with Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Whopping Cough and Polio.
We would only have to defeat each of them once, and our species would never need to face them again.
And either I get strong support to the idea, because they did their research about how nasty these sicknesses are. Enquiries why we haven't cured the Flu, Cancer, HIV or something else so nebulous and complex that herd immunity is a pain to develop. Or folks who claim they never had these things, so why should they get immunised. Which tells me who I shouldn't hang out with if I don't wish for a secondary infection.
Every immune cell in our bodies works independently, and complex life has been around so long it developed tools to fight back against disease, heal from it, and continue as it always had. There is a limited number of diseases out there that SPECIFICALLY adapted to our unique methods of defence and existence in the effort of finding a great new place to live. And viruses are uniquely in a position of keeping ahead or the immune response curve or dying out forever.
But no one remembers how successful the Cold is at spreading and moving on. While HIV is deadly (eventually) but terrible at spreading. While the real threats to our civilization and species are the stuff that kills you, while spreading like wildfire.
Covid-19 had that potential, to overwhelm our health systems, some nations faltered, some nations endured regardless, and yet others cut the curve and suffered very few fatalities, by keeping the case levels low.
The variation between global responses, and thus body count internationally, is wildly different not due to climate, but due to how well different strategies to manage these contagious outbreaks worked.
Covid-19 continues to exist. And if it mutates into something nasty, we might have to do it all again. But now enough people have had it to protect our species and society, hopefully. So it doesn't become the next smallpox.

We’re really trillions of little organisms all working together to stay alive

I think about this a lot. Or should I say, the trillions of cells that comprise my being think about it a lot. It's just cells thinking about cells, atoms pondering atoms, the universe peering into itself.

If a cell was as big as a human then a human would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. Imagine a blood cell going like Mach 3 speeds just to get from your feet to your head and back!

Truer words have not been moo-ed.. 😄

- Master Cowgway

We do have a common enemy though. Climate change is almost certainly the biggest threat to humanity we've ever faced. Not so much with the unity yet though.

They gave you goosebumps once, they can do it again

Made me want to rewatch CGP Greys Fable of the Dragon Tyrant again.

You are goosebumps

They killed one monster, but they can create a new one, maybe even from scratch (pun not intended)... Evolution is blind and still manages to come up with terrifying things. Now imagine you give it the eyes...

@@Gaehhn Respect. Awesome video

Yes, I thought so too

Of course. Th
Is was during the cold war and they were the two superpowers.

@@bw2082 biological weapons yo

Yeah and even more concerning knowing one of those two might be unhinged enough to reintroduce the disease to an enemy population.

The US has also misplaced some samples of it. One guy left it out in the middle of a lab. I think a janitor found it. I think we also had some grad students find a sample while cleaning out a cooler in their school lab.

Oh cool, I have paranoid organelles, neat!

​@@blunderingfoolu a cute derg lol

@@Griffindeleon004 I keep getting compliments about the dragon today. :P That coat is one I used to own, back when I got the art commissioned.

@@blunderingfool coats are awesome, I have camel colored great coat myself.

Delta cxcr4 gene also gives immunity to HIV as well 😊

GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. YOU'RE NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON... ONLY GOD IS GOOD! WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS!
MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/NO PRIEST/NO SAINT/NO ANCESTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, MARY DIDN'T, THE POPE DIDN'T EITHER, NO IDOLS OR FALSE gods DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO MUSICIAN OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO INFLUENCER OR KRplus STAR DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO SCIENTIST OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR ACTOR DIED FOR YOUR SINS! STOP IDOLIZING & WORSHIPING THESE PEOPLE!
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6
"But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33
“For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23

@@JESUSCHRIST-ONLYWAYTOHEAVENok, this is not a video about religion, and you are still praising god since he saved your life, while the smallpox scientists could have been the ones who are the reason why you are born. Please do not insult other religions, but acknowledge them. I do not mean to be rude to you or your religion, but the scientists may have saved your life.

Fortunately those Darwin award recipients mostly are from one country.

It's further evidence that the human mind is incredibly stubborn, selfish, and gullible

no need to imagine, unfortunately. that's the actual world we live in...

Agreed, I also like how if when they do make a mistake they do their best to correct the information which is rare but does happen

rational animations is a animated fact youtube channel!

​@RaineeVR the last video was a train wreak and I haven't seem them correct or say anything, but at least this one seems a lot better (that sounds kinda mean I don't mean it in that way, i would also take the videos where they receive grants with a grain of salt because the last video the sponsors definitely had a say in the script. again sounds mean i dont mean it like that 😊)

They're all sponsored by some of the most shady organisations now.

​@content_enjoyer4458I'd say that's the opposite of naive

@@content_enjoyer4458no that view is very wise anything but naive

@@content_enjoyer4458 Care to explain why this view is naive? I think it's merely a fact that humanity could've achieved a lot more if we wouldn't fight ourselves for dubios reasons...

the vaccine scarring (also BCG's) is probably what traumatizes a lot of kids with vaccines and make them so scared of being vaccinated, because most vaccines actually don't hurt at all.

I remember the sugar cube! Nice to know I didn't have to worry about all those deadly illnesses.

Unfortunately, the smallpox vaccine only protects you for around 10 years. The last person in Britain to die of smallpox in 1978, the Birmingham medical school lab technician Janet Parker, was actually vaccinated. She died because research was still being carried out on live variola in the lab below her, despite all requests to destroy any samples of the virus worldwide, and the air from that lab vented into hers. Shortly after she died, the head of Birmingham Medical School, Henry Benson, who had authorised the work on the virus, killed himself. My Dad knew him.

thank you for your service and may the next generations have fewer anti-vaxxers than the ones before

The sugar cube sucked! Tasted like shoe polish.
I'm also one of the last in my country to have received the smallpox jab; for whatever reason it was given on my thigh (the mark is still there, plain as day). I received a bunch of vax before my 5th birthday, don't remember much about them but I do recall once getting what is called a "kiiltokuva" (lit. "shiny picture"; a type of glossy embossed scrapbook picture) in my language; they were popular at the time and doctors would frequently give those to kids who were afraid of needles. It was an orange kitten playing with a blue ball of yarn. It was one of my most treasured possessions.

more like gay_on_youtube

eh, not really. humans have, and will always suck to a degree

We are ants, they are locusts.

@@bbabbich3467 We are Borg.