Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing channel on the internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking about the Top 10 Scary Extinct
Diseases that COULD COME BACK.
Back from the dead.
Hip hip hurrah!
Before we get into this plague party, I want to ask you guys what the sickest you have
ever been is!
I don’t mean sick like………
SICK….
But like… actually sick.
God I promise never to say that again.
I had swine flu once, that was probably the most sick I have ever been, I was in bed for
a week!
Let me know your worst moments in the comments section down below and how you get through
it!
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10 - The Black Death In the 14th Century, bubonic plague wiped
out a third of Europe’s population.
Plague is a bacteria diseases that spreads to humans via bites from infected mice, rats
or fleas and then can be passed on by coughing and sneezing in human hosts.
Plague was back again with a vengeance in 1665 but then colder weather of the autumn
followed by the Great Fire of London helped stop the disease in its tracks.
When people talk about plague they assume it is a ye-olde disease that doesn’t effect
us anymore, but the truth is that, while most first world countries are plague free, some
third world countries are still struggling, including Madagascar.
There are around 7 cases of plague reported in the United States each year.
9 - Old Flu Strains strains strains!
This video is all about strains!
In the summer of 1977, a nasty flue was spreading through China and Russia and then through
most of the Northern Hemisphere!
Weirdly it seemed that the majority of those infected were under the age of 25.
Virologists analyzed the sick and found the reason for the age trend.
The flue was identical to one that handy been seen for more than 20 years.
Those who had been exposed to it before had developed an immunity to it, but the younger
generations unfortunately had no natural resistance and had never been vaccinated for it.
It was concluded that the virus was not a naturally occurring event and actually it
WAS the old strain, which had been kept in a lab all these years.
Unfortunately there had been some accident in which it must have ended up being unleashed…
although no one has ever admitted responsibility or even acknowledged it, which makes it even
scarier.
8 – Diphtheria
Diphtheria can be very nasty, especially for children.
It can lead to heart failure, breathing issues, death and even paralysis.
The infection was most prevalent around a century ago and was one of the most common
causes of death by infection.
Before the 1920s, tens of thousands of people were dying in the US from contracting the
illness, but vaccination all but eradicated it.
In the Iberian peninsula in the 17th century, one year was dubbed the Year of Strangulation
as the outbreak got so bad.
In 2015, Diphtheria made a comeback in Spain, which saw its first case in 28 years, killing
an 8 year old child in Catalonia.
It seems the parents had decided not to inoculate their son, who ended up contracting the sickness.
It goes to show it is still out there, lurking.
7 - Cholera Cholera was a huge issue in in the 1800s,
especially in populated Victorian London, India and the US.
In India, a pandemic in 1817 killed millions as rice was grown in polluted water from the
Ganges.
Cholera is a waterborne bacteria but since the development of proper sewage disposal,
and water treatment, it basically isn’t something developed nations worry about….that
being said, South Korea can tell you just how easily it can return.
In 2016, the capital of Seoul reported their first cholera outbreak in 15 years.
It seems the contamination came from an import of shellfish.
Symptoms include diarrhea, nausea, muscle cramps and dehydration and can lead to very
unpleasant deaths.
6 - Smallpox Urrrm….
So a cardboard box containing a vial of deadly extinct smallpox was found in Maryland 34
years after health officials declared the disease to have been eradicated – beyond
that, the last known case in the US happened in 1945.
I am sorry but WHAT!
Small Pox was one of the biggest killers, ending the lives of 300 million people in
the 20th century alone although after it was eradicated it seems that the government held
some for research purposes.
Smallpox was ended by a careful process of vaccination, but these days, as there hasn’t
been a case anywhere in the world since 1977, people are no longer vaccinated, which means
if was ever unleashed again, it could kill the younger generations very very easily.
Luckily the Smallpox found in Maryland was sealed properly and handled before it could
become a public health risk.
Next up, the ancient disease that killed the Aztecs in a vast pandemic …
5 - Cocoliztli This is so interesting!
It seems that the ancient civilization, The Aztecs lived between 1300 to the mid 1500s
They were doing their thing, surviving and thriving until the Spanish came and started
messing stuff up.
Not only did the Spanish come with some dubious colonizing intentions, they also brought foreign
illnesses over.
From 1545 to 1550 they were struck down with a mystery illness they called Cocolztli.
It seems only 1 in ten survived, with cocolztli killing 90 percent of their population.
From accounts written at the time, Cocolztli was defined by people developing a fever and
blotchy skin.
They then started vomiting and bleeding out of the eyes and nose.
That is absolutely horrendous.
What this mystery illness was has had a lot of historians scratching their heads – and
as we know, mystery illnesses are always at risk of returning.
We don’t want such a deadly killer back in our midst… although recent research seems
to suggest that actually Cocoliztli wasn’t a disease, but rather salmonella.
Although we don’t know for sure.
4 - Ancient Anthrax In 2016 Siberia saw an outbreak of Anthrax
. Why?
Well there was a heatwave.
What does that mean?
Well it seems that under the ice a silent killer was waiting to thaw.
It seems that a reindeer who had died from an old strain of anthrax 75 years prior was
frozen under the ice and as it thawed, so too did the bacteria.
This lead to 13 humans getting sick and one young boy actually dying.
Meanwhile 250,000 reindeer were culled!
It isn’t just Anthrax that is an issue… similarly at number we have 3 Pandora’s
Permafrost.
As the permafrost in the Northern hemisphere is melting as a result of global warming,
it seems that there is a whole host of nasties waiting to be unleashed that we may not have
seen in a very very long time.
Not only are there tons of toxic mercury under the ice waiting to poison our food and water
supplies, there are zombie pathogens lurking and werking….
Or not working….
But waiting to.
We don’t know what exactly is under there but scientists have the foresight to be worried
about it.
It seems that the anthrax unleashed in Siberia could just be the tip of the iceberg…or
tip of the permafrost.
Okay not a saying… but we should expect the unexpected.
Fun.
2 - Leprosy Leprosy is mentioned in the bible, which suggests
that the sickness, characterized by legions on the skin and the loss of eyesight, has
been around for millennia.
The first recorded case may have been as early as around 1550 BC.
Back in those days, people thought that Leprosy was a punishment from god.. although we now
know it is a slow growing bacteria and not a curse.
Obviously.
Leprosy caused MANY millions of deaths over the centuries and was most prevalent in the
middle east and asia.
The World Health Organisation aimed to eradicate Leprosy in the 2000s, which they have almost
achieved but it does still pop up in unlikely places….
Including the Southern states of America.
Why?
Well funnily enough the answer is Armadillos.
It seems that Armadillos are known carriers of the disease and have been behind a small
outbreak in the united states.
The US has around 150 cases a year, but unlike in ancient times, we can actually treat and
cure the killer disease.
This is something we should all be pretty afraid of….
1 - Drug Resistant Bacteria When penicillin was invented it was a game
changer for treating illnesses.
All of a sudden life ending infections were being tackled and survival rates were soaring,
however over the years bacteria has started fighting back.
Doctors have to be careful when prescribing antibiotics as oversubscription when they’re
not needed can cause these bacteria to mutate.
The mutated version of the bacteria can then be spread, causing an outbreak of something
untreatable.
There are already some strains of bacteria that have become resistant to drugs we have.
WELL WELLWELL that was the Top 10 extinct diseases that could come back – I truly
hope we never see any of these ever again!
COMMENTS FROM Top 10 Scary Creatures Pulled Out Of The Ocean
EDS had a super sensible comment they said: blob fish only look like that because of the
change of pressure.
They are used to living deep under the sea in high pressure and apparently they look
quite cool when deep in the ocean.?
Flippy the wonder cat called it – they said: The Deep Sea is more terrifying than The Deep
Web?
- WELL isn’t that the truth!
A lot of you were very freaked out by the Peanut Worm and…
I hear you!