History Channel - The Plague part 18 (Final)

[dodomo68]

Thanks for uploading these videos!!!! Now I have to watch them all over again to make some notes for History class... -_-

[deathroman13]

It was interesting to watch this documentary :)

Thanks for uploading.

[Mistawizzyswaggg]

the ending really makes me feel safe 0.O

[Mistawizzyswaggg]

O.O

[Mistawizzyswaggg]

O.0

[makeupteaandcrumpets]

That awkward moment when another plague already did happen. Spanish Influenza in 1918. It killed more people in one year than this did in four. Of course, the world population was a lot bigger. I'm worried about another plague though. LIke Bird Flu or something. All I know is, if there's another huge epidemic, I really don't want to be around for it.

[Nightcrawlerinsweden]

hmm... this might be what happens at 2012 O.o

[adriansanar2]

Interesting. Now i want to read more about the middle ages.

[TalenaIchimaru]

Thanks for posting!

[solomania2007]

This bubonic plague is a taste what harm to biology, medicine or other sciences that creationist "science" can do.

[latino101benj]

fucking mongolians.

[Jennafu832]

It scares me to think that this pandemic seemed to be the answer to the growing population in Europe and the lack of needed resources. I think it may have been nature's way of balancing supply and demand. What scares me is that I feel the world is on the brink of overpopulation again today. There aren't enough resources anymore. In order to preserve life, evolution will stop at nothing.

[xXMegii3Xx]

would anyone agree with the fact that AIDS/HIV is a rapidly growing plague in the process? More and more people are coming down with this type of STD each and every day.... what the scary part is, is no one knows how to CURE it not PREVENT it but CURE it. So theoretically speaking, if 15,0000 people came down with AIDS it could very well be the Bubonic Plague of a different sort. And please don't just mention the ONE way NOT to get there are many ways to contract aids other then intercourse.

[example110]

@xXMegii3Xx Black plague = contagious. AIDS = not contagious. AIDS simply does not have the potential to become something anywhere near as significant as the plague.

[Pippychan]

Documentaries like this always make me paranoid for days....

[painoftheheart12]

When science cannot save you, that historian is right. We'd handle such a situation no better, maybe marginally, but even that is a lot to expect.

[OriginalYTName]

Very interesting documentary. What seems to be a common theme across all of these disaster documentaries is during the final part they always try and convince/warn the audience that history will repeat itself when, realistically, it's not going to.

I remember watching some sabre tooth tiger documentary and I'm not even joking it said something stupid like "and the chances are any big cat could develop teeth like these very soon", ridiculous!

[hurtchow]

thanks for uploading

[gibianosaki]

what about making virus/bacteria masks?(like gasmasks)And we put them on until virus/bacteria finishes its cycle.While eating/drinking we enter desinfected isolated rooms(each his/her own)We'll have to hault kissing for a year or two.It could be a solution.And we should learn from past immoral mistakes like leaving the thirdworld to die.So governments:Start Investing! and make some space for the thirdworld citizens as there are still psycho-dictators that dont care about the worth of human lifes

[RampantArtist]

@gibianosaki dude... have you not noticed that restaurants have to post signs to force their employees to wash their hands after going to the bathroom? People do not do what they should. That is the predictable rule. If we did, then we wouldn't have as much obesity and other preventable disease... and we wouldn't have antibiotic resistant strains of killer diseases like tuberculosis. So... the chances of people suddenly becoming so good at rigid rules is very low.

[RampantArtist]

@gibianosaki dude... have you not noticed that restaurants have to post signs to force their employees to wash their hands after going to the bathroom? People do not do what they should. That is the predictable rule. If we did, then we wouldn't have as much obesity and other preventable disease... and we wouldn't have antibiotic resistant strains of killer diseases like tuberculosis. So... the chances of people suddenly becoming so good at rigid rules is very low.

[kisssexxx]

*THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM THE MYSTAKES OF HISTORIES PAST, ARE ALWAYS! DOOMED TO REPEAT IT! *ALWAYS!

[RampantArtist]

@kisssexxx Did you previously spell mistake incorrectly?

[demmerfreak]

A chance for another black death pandemic is very low, since the bacteria needs a very poor and unclean environment to b oth suvive and spread. And since most of the people Westen world have a good hygiene and keeps their citys clean.

But a chance for anyother disease pandemic, is very possible, especialy now with global warning, because that could change the enviroment around the earth, and could maybe be the reason for a new deadly infectious diseases,



[RampantArtist]

@demmerfreak Um.. no and no. the black plague is unlikely because we have antibiotics and it has not gotten a chance to become AB-resistant, like TB has. Global warming won't really impact it - notice how infectious diseases like the flu actually increase in winter when people gather inside with less fresh air. A pandemic is inevitable and really, sort of necessary. We are overloading our resources so something has to control us if we cannot control our own numbers and consumption.

[SuperWeng10]

this is very educational and informative i would rather spend my time watching this kind of documentaries than to watch tv drama series!

[IwillKillYourCereal]

Well, that was a depressing ending...

[mvcleong1]

Finally reached the end!

[whatsgoingonthen]

almost half the worlds population died.......15million people...the fact we recovered..and carried on..is remarkable.....good post

[gOtHiCxAnGeLxox]

Another Black Plague? Meh. I wouldn't mind that much. Our populations need a little trimming down; especially in the Western world.

[TheMoonbeamIsWatchin]

AAAAND, epic ending.

[Richardwaffles]

DONE WITH THE DOCUMENTARY NOTES YES!!! FINALLY D:!

[funnystarchild]

I dont believe that we are as defenceless against a new pandemic as they wer when the plague hit Europe. Now we have an industry that makes antiviruses. They didnt have that back then. Remember the swine flue? It took like a few month and they hade the antivirus ready and shipping in large numbers.

[olivemike81]

@funnystarchild Plus, we all don't live in our own feces and we take showers usually more than once every 10 years.

[AgApE010]

So what finally stopped the spread of the plague in the Dark Ages?

[funnystarchild]

@AgApE010 Chuck Norris came home from his vacation.

[playerVlad19992]

Thanks to the up loader. An informative, entertaining and some what sobering production.

[california250505]

AWESOME ed. video.

[dream6cold6code6]

there right...we don't have even now the resources or capabilities and even the knowledge to combat such a situation as the black death, if it did happen again most likely the result due to technological advancement in travel would be twice as insane as the figures of the death toll for the black plague was. essentially the earth is already over populated, for such a thing to happen again, we could not save the majority of our species, rather only the elite will endure, this is worrying. =(

[MyLittleMaker]

FINALLY!

[2000davis171]

really helpful thanks

[Arnebananlolo]

Medical human? Doctors?

[6000infamous]

Thumbs up for 11JAMESTOMAS11! Lol I skipped all of it.

[11JAMESTOMAS11]

thumbs up if you didnt finnish the whole documentry and just skipped to part 18

[GOllumboy101]

And people were worried about Swine Flu...

[LittleMissAndromeda]

When I was 8, my parents were watching this. They shooed me off because "it was scary."

Now, years later, I found this... and I see why.

Though I'm going to be a germaphobe for the next few decades, thanks so much for putting this one here!

[PhantomSephiroth]

Was just Nature's way of saying: You don't want to control your population, I Will do it, Bithces!

[dicthash]

did he die?

[TheEpicTempo]

ZOMBIE PLAGE :P jkjk

[01misheel]

well it is the survival of the fittest

[thezombiereviwer]

Great program...but now I'm all scared :(

[ThursdayChild420]

Wow, great documentary, I had no idea it started in China. Thanks to Mindreader00, I love learning new things from history.

[kzam717]

about how we'd deal with it today; if my lymphnodes swell to baseball size,I'd get me some tetracycline.

[ChenJJohn]

imagine AIDS being airborne. What can we do, of all our technological boasting?

[virgoeyes]

What they mean is that, we might have the technology and the science, we never know when a new epidemic might appear and it takes time to know what it is, how you get it and how to fight it. Like AIDS. And we all live very tightly together, so it might spread pretty quickly, specially because we have transportation.

[dream6cold6code6]

with more modernised trade and technology, its hard to concieve a control method for such a pandemic out break like the black plague. in the modern world all countries are tightly knitted together through trade and distribution, making our world even more susceptible to pademic out breaks. we would lack bio hazard facilities to treat the infectious, and there not enough beds for all that are ill let alone doctors to treat them. we struggle with health issues even without pandemics breaking out.

[matdur2000]

that fear mongering ending was awful

[monkeyshoes69]

Congratulations! 118,000 People started watching these 18 Parts and you have beaten 94,000 by staying the course to the end!

[wingsofhope2]

@monkeyshoes69

What do I win?! :D

[XIII2]

@monkeyshoes69 We the Few, The Proud.

(that actually is kind of a parallel between the people alive before the plague and after epidemic...hmm...)

[Kristopful]

Thanks for posting....very informative and sobering.

[Knightingale777]

Pfft, they didn't even mention the kitty-slaughter those people did :/

[evilferris]

18 parts? Really?! Sheesh!

[fourdimentionalhp]

they forgot to add that that all could happen again if we slip to the 21st century dark ages when religion and faith take over science.

[555skooterboy]

i wanked through that whole documentary

[MrHerrIQ]

Europeans are immune to this

[DeHerg]

@MrHerrIQ No, just a bit more resistant than the rest of mankind(but in no way immune)

[MrHerrIQ]

@DeHerg

A Swedish history documentary brought in scientists stating this.

The more European ancestors you have, that experienced this period & later on developed a resistance & eventually became immune, the greater chance you have not to get it & are also resistant. I couldn't find anything about it on google to varify they were right, just scientists stating we're somewhat more resistant to HIV. So I dont know what to believe. I need to see their sources. But wont take side (appeal to ignoran

[DeHerg]

@MrHerrIQ well the term "resistant" when referred to a hole population means that either a small part is immune or has lesser chance of caching it, the term "immune" in reference to a population means that so few of them can actually get infected that the disease has no chance of spreading(which is not the case in any of the named diseases).

As to the HIV thing(look for "CCR5 receptor"): I think the theory that it stems from all those small pox infections over the century's makes more sense.

[MrHerrIQ]

@DeHerg

I know about the HIV part, but I cant find anything that they stated on google.

On the otherhand, you cant argue out of ignorance as that's illogical and a fallacy of it's own, thus I can't claim what they stated is wrong until I've found their sources. If you are interested in the subject, perhaps you could let me know if you ever stumble upon something about Europeans being either immune or resistant to the black death in greater numbers than other peoples?

Take care!

[DeHerg]

@MrHerrIQ I can tell you that this specific mutation(which is going through the media) dont offer protection against the bubonic plague

nature(dot)com/nature/journal/­v427/n6975/full/427606a(dot)ht­ml

other than that I didnt found any paper/article on scirus(dot)com which states a specific immunity/resistance to y. pestis among europeans(which means I have to retract my initial statement here(that they have a bit higher resistance))

[gmaureen]

@MrHerrIQ I just watched a doc on youtube about a small village in England where descendants are likely to be immune to the plague. The "proof" was found/obtained through parish records. This particular village had a high plague mortality, but some survived. Descendants of survivors are thought to carry (DNA testing) a specific gene that is resistant to the plague. Very interesting.

[gmaureen]

@DeHerg Look up this doc on youtube; Discovery Civilisation The Mystery of The Black Death

[ironmadion55]

man it's just like the rage virus...

0:27

[windofthegods]

if a similar plague happened today, everyone would freak out and try to escape hence spreading it further and faster

[TheKevturner]

it's funny how the same religion is used today to blame natural occurrences in nature on sin or whatever, and how ppl after all this time can still believe the same bullshit that made the situation worse back then

[Marmalade000000]

I always thought that Ebola, AIDS, SARS, bird flu, swine flu, etc are all MUTATIONS of the original Bubonic Plague......

[DeHerg]

@Marmalade000000 the first ones are viruses the latter bacteria, thats like saying humans are a mutation of oak trees

;)

[RubicsCubeProduction]

Did they have to have such a bad ending? This plague wont come back, cause now we ain't got no religion that bans antibiotics and other medicine. 

[DeHerg]

@RubicsCubeProduction we already have multiresistant stems of bacteria today but thanks to increased knowledge and less superstition we have better chances to develop countermeasures in time(of course only under the condition that the alternative medicine and anti-vax loonies dont get in the way of distribution)

[PhilJonesIII]

Thanks for posting.

[clarabella1234]

of course they had to try and scare the crap out of us at the end.... of course

[thefunnyvidchannel]

wow ive watched all these its teached me alot about this, fanx so much for uploading =]

[freddie12ism]

terrific series. very informitive,filled in a lot of pieces i may have missed.

[rloandelo]

My people are destroyed because of a lack of knowledge: because thou has rejected knowledge, i will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou has forgotten the law of thy God, i will also forge thee. Hosea 1:8

Lets just look up instead pointing to a scapegoat and/or going around the root problem. I write this as a friend not an enemy

[kooodeal]

This old plague is in the field mice in the west ,I read and saw a show on the team tracking down the source,and some people were made sick with it by their cat.

[logeid20]

thanks ;)

[mm12355oo]

thx very much man.........:)

[Dihnekis]

thanks

[Nightwithe]

thanks for posting!!! very informative!!!

[Chisaineko44]

this was a great show. i have heard about people being quarentined with the plaque. i think this would be a sucky way to die, not to mention painful. if your family left while you were sick just to save themselves, you would be left to die alone. that would just suck.

[faganfamily1]

Exellent! thank you so much for posting.

[shirleysfrog91]

wow thanks so much for posting this! I'm an offspring of surviviors of the plague! We are all equal people who walk the earth today are all desendants of our ancestors who was played a role in history.

[Driftaway1000]

@shirleysfrog91 Yes we are, all 6,500,000,000 of us :)

[system1923]

thanks for uploading this

[mmedefarge]

Thanks so much for uploading this fascinating series about a disease process that is still as relevant today as it was then.

[Brandtstifter1]

Thank you for posting! This item is big!

[Bethalaine]

@Brandtstifter1 thats what-- oh nevermind

[teaganandizzyrandom]

yes that did happen, some places they were taken care of with food delivered to their homes but in other places people would just set the houses on fire, with people in it, which, no matter how gruesome, actually worked because extreme heat kills that sort of bacteria..

[MrsNorris55]

I remember reading somewhere that often, when an infection struck a household, the doors and windows would be nailed shut and the family imprisoned inside. That wasn't mentioned here; did it really happen?

[MrsNorris55]

bscottb8, I think they were just lucky. That was partly what was so terrifying; it wasn't just "culling" the already-sick and the weak. A person could wake up in apparently perfect health and be dead by nightfall, so contemporary doctors found it impossible to even start to figure it out.

MindReader00, thanks very much for posting this; it was fascinating.

[bscottb8]

What about the plague's survivors -- did they have some natural immunity, or were they just lucky?

[am1gv]

just lucky i supose

[suesue48]

Fascinating work has been done on the changes to the European gene frequency post-plague. Basically, we're all a little resistant because our ancestors were the survivors. Read "survival of the Sickest" for a popular treatment of the subject.

Thanks MindReader00, I enjoyed imagining society tipped over and investment bankers digging mass graves.

[Yngvarv]

A way to make the cells self regenerate is the only true "vaccine" against all diseases.

[chevezez]

@Yngvarv

lol if your cell's didn't undergo mitosis (duplication) you would have died a long time ago

[aYTcritic]

& unlike back in Medival Times today in the 21st Century we simply cannot allow or even afford to let Religions hamper Scientific Progress.

Think about how far we've come & how much we progressed in the 20th Century the century in which we put a stop to religion hampering scientific progress, now imagen how far we will progress in the 21st Century if we actually do it & completely detach outselves from religion, & allow science to completely advance freely without restrictions from religions.

[lamenzies]

There would still need to be some sort of ethical framework for scientific research, though.

[thissnowtastefunny]

I'm going to have to agree with you what has religion done for anyone? besides give hope which is a good thing but hoping you will get well and having science to actually cure you i'll take science in that case.

[chevezez]

@thissnowtastefunny welcome to the 21st century

[CashoutKingz616]

@thissnowtastefunny for many of us, it is tradition. i am roman catholic, and so were almost all of these people 800 years ago. so tht shows how long it has been goin on, passed onn to children. u guys cant blame anyone or attack religion.its been around us for centrurys. i have never ssaid anything negativly about atheism, even tho i dont agree with it

[chevezez]

@aYTcritic

it seems almost as if science has become a religion, it claim's to hold the truth, yet isn't that what every religion has done?

I'm not saying science is a bad thing since there is truth to observation and innovation, religion however is based mainly on fabrication

just trying to point out how it's ironic that science is a type of substitute for religion nowadays, society is so redundant

[PhilJonesIII]

@chevezez

Science Is a Sacred Cow Book by Anthony Standen; 1950. Makes the same point, even back then.

[chevezez]

@PhilJonesIII thanks i think i might grab it at the library

[drmaikati]

Science has biger chance of finding cure then religion however :)

[aYTcritic]

I just hope that a Pandemic as huge as The Black Death won't ever happen again or at least not anytime soon, but Medical Science must continue to make progress & I mean strong progress, scientists must figure out how to isolate if not manipulate Pandemic Viruses & diseases; they must find out how to stop pandemics from even happening at all.

Cause lets face it The Progression of Science is truly our only real hope & chance to stop plagues like The Black Death from happening ever happening again

[ghostdivision7]

I can tell you how to stop pandemics. Everywhone locks himself up in his house...

We come in contact with dieseas all the time and mostly our body takes perfectly care of it.

[flocki1961]

That was very interesting! Thank you for uploading

[mastershake99999]

thnx for posting this it is vry helpful.

[hismajestykingston]

Thank you!!! OMG!!! Look how far I've come...lol... U made my day, poster person...

[izulka75]

Thank you very much for posting this.

[alcmcvhvvh]

THX 4 POSTING UR DA BEST!

[kooodeal]

Our cities are teeming with rats and poor sanitation again , the match is ready to strike-up this disease.

[thissnowtastefunny]

but we'll be ready...hopefully.

[manojjonam10]

Thanks

[kingjoe99]

Thoughtful, fascinating-thank you.

[madmikelo]

Thank you for posting this documentary.

[Lowri1996]

thanx 4 posting! I was looking on every channel on TV 4 The Black Death, but there was NOTHING! I needed 2 watch something like this 4 hmwrk, & this helped me a lot! Thanx again!

[anuradhar]

Amazing documentary. I do remember reading about the black death from my history text books in school. but such a comprehensive and coherant commentary was really informative.

[MMonreal]

thanks for posting

[carolinenpower]

great doco until it got to the end and did the whole american 'we're all going to die' cliche.

[buistmatt]

it raises a good point about how we would deal with such an epidemic

[joker0187]

or possible pandemic

in my opinion, were not even ready for a simple flu. many people forgot or dont bother to get their flu shot. if we have some way to fight a disease, why dont people take advantage?

we in america and other rich countries think we can never have another disease kill us like 1918 influenza or bubonic plague.

were lucky a disease such as ebola hasnt striked cities like new york, san francisco, rome, rio de jainero, beijing, and so forth.

[adarkenedmind]

Some people have natural resistance to the flu... i've been through numerous flu seasons and i have only gotten it a couple times, and never a bad case.

And i totally agree with you about the ebola virus.

[Soldierman345]

i have some kind of natural resistance to cold in particular.ive only had once or twice in my lifetime so far and never had a bad case.but fever,every now and then i come down with it.i remember a particuarly bad case were i had it for about 3 days and even got delirium.

[thissnowtastefunny]

once you get a curtain type of cold you wont get the same one again.

[Soldierman345]

ive never gotton flu.

[Academic1Researcher]

@buistmatt why does everyone call this an epidemic its not its a pandemic meaning wide spread not in certain spots referring to an epidemic

[Bethalaine]

@carolinenpower Lol I agree. Propaganda.

[zoesmybaby]

@carolinenpower really>? I had no idea Graham Mooney was an american

[Elizabeththegreatest]

@carolinenpower Do we Americans really sound like that?

[Arminoid]

@Elizabeththegreatest To be honest ... yeah kind of. I mean search the web you'll se what he means it's like so much fun for America to think of stuff like that :( No I beg some one that will search google come to me and show me that most of it comes from europe !

[GOllumboy101]

@carolinenpower lol fuck off seriously