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  • There's a lot of stuff out there trying to kill us right now, and today I'm going to talk about the ones that are the best at it.

  • The five deadliest infectious diseases in the world.

  • Now do your self a favor, put away any food you might have nearby you

  • and if you have a dog you might want to move it into another room.

  • You might be tempted to say the monstrous bastards

  • I'm about to talk about are the deadliest organisms in the world

  • but that wouldn't really be true,

  • because of all of the diseases that you're going to hear about today are caused by viruses

  • and as you know viruses are just protein covered scumbags full of nucleic acid

  • so they're not generally considered living things

  • but still you got to hand it to them viruses have probably been around for at least 10's of millions of years

  • and have managed to make a great living by ripping off our DNA like they're the fricking pirate bay

  • and using it to copy themselves and pretty much master our asses for as long as there have been warts.

  • But I'm not talking about warts here, guys, it's much worse than that. I'm talking about the diseases with the highest known case fatality rates

  • which is how experts measure the deadliness of a disease

  • the percentage of people diagnosed with it who end up dying from it

  • Remember the Spanish flu? 1917 to 1918, killed like 30 million people world wide and basically changed the course of modern history

  • That was a strain of a virus called H1N1 and it had a case fatality rate of like 10 to 20 percent

  • Viruses I'm talking about are so much deadlier by comparison that Spanish flu is not even worth calling in sick for.

  • Take for instance Nipah which has an average case fatality rate of about fifty percent

  • It's named for a town in Malaysia were it was discovered in 1999 among pig farmers

  • Seems a bunch started coming down with severe respiratory problems and inflammation of the brain that caused

  • hallucinations and seizures and not the good kinds...

  • Wait, there's good kinds of seizures?

  • Outbreaks soon followed in India and Bangladesh, this time among people who had eaten fruit that was tainted by bats that carried the virus

  • The death rate in some of these out breaks was 100 percent and there are no treatments or vaccines for the virus

  • But what's really pants-poopingly terrifying about Nipah is that it soon proved to be easily transmissible among humans

  • no pigs or bats or pig-bats required.

  • In 2001 there was an outbreak in the town of Siliguri in India and seventy-five percent of those cases were traced back to people who had visited the local hospital

  • Just by being in that building, they got it.

  • But hey, that doesn't affect you, right? Because, odds are, you're not a pig farmer and you're also probably not watching from your home in Siliguri

  • Well, no doubt you've heard of H5N1. The virus formally known as "bird flu" has been making the rounds mainly in Asia and Europe where it's often fatal to birds

  • Luckily, it's rarely contracted by people and it's not very good at jumping from person to person until now

  • You may remember a while back when I told you about how scientists genetically engineered bird flu to make it contagious among ferrets

  • and that's important because ferrets essentially have the same immune system as humans. Don't ask me why

  • It's assumed that these new strains are contagious to us as well which kinda sucks because the World Health Organization says

  • that H5N1 kills at least fifty-four percent of the people who get it usually from respiratory problems

  • Now, there is a vaccine for the strain that's out in the world right now, but at least in the US, it's been stockpiled by the government

  • and hasn't been made available by the public yet

  • As for the strains that were made to be made to be contagious between mammals they are currently kept under lock and key

  • in labs in Wisconsin and the Netherlands hopefully big locks with thumb print and retinal scan and voice activated.

  • and some of the scientists who monkeyed with the virus

  • have said they've developed a vaccine

  • at least for the strains that they've invented

  • so that's great

  • they can release it on the world and then sell the vaccine

  • that'll be great business for them

  • "Now, Hank," you're saying,

  • "I'm not a Malaysian bat handler,

  • and I've already stocked my pantry enough skittles and diet sierra mist to get me through the bird flu pandemic."

There's a lot of stuff out there trying to kill us right now, and today I'm going to talk about the ones that are the best at it.

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死にやすい病気トップ5 (Top 5 Deadliest Diseases)

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    Allice Cheung に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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