Watching this with a chest infection is not good for the blood pressure
for a second at the start I thought steve was leaving
The white death being an alligator as a metaphor is fantastic. The slow predator, the lurker.
Great work sharing this. In the USA, we think of TB as an old-world disease, mostly hearing about it from Westerns and Victorian-era movies and shows. When I became a nurse, I realized how very REAL TB still is in the modern world! I've had multiple exposures in the ER, and may well have latent TB myself now. For people unaware, TB is making a gradual, almost silent comeback in the USA. And yet we've done almost nothing to curb the rise in cases seen over the past decade. Nobody even TALKS about it.
How to make a Kurzgesagt video: Step 1: Existential crisis Step 2: Hope Step 3: More existential crisis
"Aww, how cute, they gave John Green his very own birdsona" OH, that's a whole-ass man.
I'm a doctor in Kenya and I deal with TB every day. I find it incredulous when I'm involved in discussions of respiratory illnesses on an international level and it's primarily COPD, pneumonia or COVID when TB has been killing my people for decades with minimal innovation in the field. I really appreciate the awareness this video is bringing to the plight that plagues billions, particularly in Africa and Asia. Kudos to PIH for the work you do.
1:14 Holy that is one GOOD plague inc player
"4000 people died of TB, yesterday" is one hell of a statement
My microbiology professor said he believes the reason we're not freaking out over it is because the media doesnt bring it up on everyones radars and its a slower death so its not as shocking to people
I'm just happy that finally someone addressed this ghost of a disease before I die. I fought for 3 years and now almost all the drugs are resistant for me. It turned into XDR or TDR they say. I don't know how much time I have left to be alive. Thank you so much John for speaking up. Edit: I meant I'm still on drugs trying to fight with an additional antibiotic. But it might resist to the antibiotic as well. And the patient can survive 3-4 years last thing I read about it. So I appreciate the everyone but I'm still fighting. Thank you so much.
I had TB when I was a kid contracted through my brother. Had some of the most traumatic experiences in the hospital while being told my lungs were being "eaten away". For years I couldnt really find out much about TB since its been about 20 years and the internet wasnt what it is today. So I'm just happy I can finally show my friends and family a good Video for them to be aware of this diseases. Thank you! My brother and I survived it. We were lucky to be in germany and got treatment right away after disgnosis.
The crocodile analogy is really good. A practiced and effective predator that has survived for a long time
As soon as you see the words "disease" and "John Green" you know it's gonna be about TB. Man picked the biggest villain out there to be his arch nemesis.
John Green is going to personally eliminate TB, and I'm here for it.
8:41 “and not enough profit.” That sentence is just so fucking sad when you think about it
“We didn’t do a good job of distribution” made a major impact.
My friend Arthur Morgan recently passed from this - he was taken from us too soon because of TB. Thank you for spreading awareness about this disease. RIP.
Some context: in the Netherlands we swear with diseases a lot. I once got annoyed about something and swore with cancer. A friend of mine got angry about that and told me I shouldn't swear with cancer when there's a lot of people dying from it. I then checked if "tering" (tuberculosis) was okay, and he said yes. I pointed out TB had killed a lot more people and he responded with "yeah but that was in the past, and cancer is still around" It never ceases to amaze me how few people know TB is still killing so many people in our modern times.
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