Seven Wonders of the Microbe World (combined)

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All seven videos from the 'Seven Wonders of the Microbe World' series combined into one, talking about Microbes and why some are good, some are bad and what they have done for mankind.


(combined)
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[TableWolfMusic]

5:00 to 6:00 This part of the video explains how black death infects and then kills humans. It mentions how few people survive. By what mechanism do those people survive if white blood cells are overcome from the inside by the microbes?

[OUlearn]

(1/2) Whether people are able to recover from an infection is basically a numbers game: can your white blood cells multiply rapidly enough to eliminate the bacteria, or do the bacteria multiply so fast that they overwhelm your cells? The very few people who were able to survive black death did so because their bodies' responses to the infection were robust enough to overcome the numbers of microbes...

[OUlearn]

(2/2) ...This means either that somehow they were able to produce more white blood cells to fight the bacteria, or the bacteria multiplied more slowly in those people and so never reached overwhelming numbers.

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[Anan Benim]

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[Xandermorph]

It's pretty ironic, isn't it? Horrible as the plague epidemic was, there's a very good chance that, had it not happened, Europe - and Great Britain in particular - may well have never left the Feudal Age.

Actually that'd be a pretty awesome set-up for an alternate universe type of story, a la the novel "Proteus Operation" or the TV shows Sliders or Dr. Who :)

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