Anthrax: Nature’s Perfect Bioweapon
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Deadly Pathogen: Exists
Military: Is for me? 👉👈
HAHAHAHA. Bro sad but true.
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Manchester
Military anime step sister
@@Mvgical intentional thrash reference?
"I have a fever and headache"
Google: Take a rest, relax, drink water and lower your body temperature
Bing:
*Chuckles*
I’m in danger
Web MD : you have cancer
Reverse it
Reverse it actually, I find that bing is actually better in terms of medical information.
@@gato4002 anything is better than Google string as how google has just turned into a marketing scheme where the highest bidder get Top results
Anthrax is insane. I live in Texas and I used to hunt near the border of Mexico. One year, all except for 3-4 of the hundreds of deer that lived on the property disappeared. It didn't take long to figure out that it was Anthrax that killed them all. Apparently in that region it isn't uncommon to have an outbreak about every 10 years.
The outbreak was in the summer of 2019 it killed almost all of our deer on our property in Sutton county Texas. But the deer are making a comeback.
doesn't that mean that once every 10 years hunting deers is deadly for humans?
@@anon2479-rz3qpdifferent type I think
@@jamesmoore381 I'm not sure about that - I would assume just coming into physical contact with an infected animal would give you a pretty high risk of infection? I might be wrong, I'm by no means a scientist :)
@@gggc1003 normally diseases aren’t transmissible to humans from other species, but you could be right, since sars strains are all animal to human transmissions
The fact it can lay dormant for thousands of years and be revived with just a drop of blood is some 28 days later type stuff. Anthrax is my Roman Empire
Indeed it is an interesting thing in this world
why did i always think anthrax was a chemical and not a disease loll
Same
Same..
Because it sounds like a chemical!
same
Probably because the well publicized incidents involved anthrax powder, logical mental leap
Me: Just a fever
Parents: Just a fever
Doctor: Just a fever
Google: COVID
Bing:
Bing delivers better search results cause google just gives highest bidder
WebMD: Stage 5 brain cancer
@@chacecrowell3638 dead at that one
Bing is actually what's up
Ask jeeves
I was in high school during the Antrax Scare. I only remember 2 things about it. 1)Mailmen literally chucking fradgile boxes into people's lawns to avoid handing mail. 2)Being told a year latter than the whole thing had been a hoax carried on after only a handful of real cases, & that the culprit was not a foreign terrorist but a local madman.
Really? I remember it as a terrorist attack as well, didn't it get sent to some politicians? I was in 6-7th grade, I remember that and the DC snipers I think that was around the same time
Domestic Terrorism. Still Terrorism
@@kyle6781There were also cases of white powder being mailed to people and obviously everyone freaked out but after testing it they found out that it wasn't actually anthrax
@@kyle6781I don’t remember as I… wasn’t born yet
@@kyle6781there was anthrax attacks one week after the September 11th attack. They were sent to politicians
I remember getting the Anthrax vaccine while being deployed...the vaccine itself caused almost 2 weeks of uncomfortabilty in the least... id hate to imagine what the real deal must feel like 😱
At least Anti-Vaxxers will be wiped out.
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahahahahah RIP
Really? What symptoms?
Did it just make you feel sick or what?
I've gotten the anthrax vaccine so many times in the military I could eat a whole bowl of anthrax and still have an easier time that the aftermath of Taco Tuesday.
The power behind this comment is absurd for some reason. This is the kind of comment that I'm going to think about randomly for years to come.
Unless you havent gotten it in a while
@@randirollz5571 same
@@randirollz5571 frrrr
@@randirollz5571 the phrasing. The metaphor. The confidence. Absolutely unrivaled.
"There are three different ways of contracting Anthrax: CD, vinyl and digital download."
Ayo
Needs more likes haha
Blasts Spreading the Disease
Nice one. Hahaha
Edit
I still got Anthrax on cassette. Among the living.
Bruh i got mine on tape
We had an anthrax outbreak in Turkey a few years back. Around the same time after eating some nasty late night food, I got a nearly 40C fewer that doctors said was because of a gastro-intestinal infection. Turns out it wasn't Anthrax, and I got better, but I was absolutely terrified for those few days.
So many people didn't realize this was in the soil. A lot of people don't realize tetanus lives in the soil also. It's not just rusty stuff you need to watch out for. Make sure to be up to date your dtap shots folks!
You know it's bad when the mildest form has "only" a 20% chance of killing you
If you don't seek medical attention. Most people who notice a black chunk of flesh would probably go to the doctor at the very least, which would drastically reduce the chance of death.
@@lilacpen8678 I would bite it off cook it and feed it to my dog
@@yoshikagekira1863 burn the disease, eat the disease
@@yoshikagekira1863 I thought Kira didn't like dogs, hmm
@@ExpandDong420 He's telling he's gonna feed'em anthrax infected flesh, what makes you think he likes them?
Imagine you’re a scientist handling a thawed mammoth corpse and you get anthrax.
You have that movie called "the thaw". Similar concept, but with parasites instead of anthrax
@Pendulous Testicularis I imagine millennia of freezer burn will do that to meat.
@Pendulous Testicularis yummy nothing like possibly centuries year old mammoth steak
@Pendulous Testicularis 🤢 hopefully it hadn’t started to rot prior to freezing...
Don't give any psychopaths here any ideas man
In Russian, anthrax is called "Siberian ulcer". As a Siberian, I always felt oddly responsible for the infamous letter attacks.
One of my college professors had an anthrax scare at the (iirc) higher up law enforcement agencies he worked at. He was on mail duty one day or something and noticed a white powder came out of one envelop when it was closed and alerted the whole company. (I don't fully remember the story, it was a while ago). He was congratulated for being on the ball but some people were mad they had to do so much work to make sure it was safe. It was like baby powder or something.
"It still only has a 20% chance of killing you." That still sounds pretty damn high.
And 80% of not killing you
@@hellohello6608 Feel free take that bet.
I heard about a very deadly disease called "Bullet". One dose and they die within the hour. 100% lethality rate. How scary.
when not treated tho
@@strix3d609 from what do you get it?
this guy looks like a depressed version of michael from vsauce.
hell is hot
He looks and sounds like the people from like 4 other channels I subscribe to.
@@starpilotalliance Only 4. obviously not a fan
You mean britsh
Btec Vsauce
I think (hope) that if anthrax becomes a larger issue, a human-compatible vaccine is more widely available.
There is a vaccine. Military members that were to deploy got the six shot course of it.
there is one and it sucks
One already exists. If you join the military or become a vet, you'll almost definitely end up receiving the vaccine. But from all that I've heard, the side effects from the vaccine tend to last at least a week and absolutely suck to deal with. Which is why it's not something the general public normally receives like the measles vaccine or something. But that's better than dealing with the real thing and having a good chance of dying if you do get the real thing, I suppose.
Everytime I hear about anthrax, I remember about the fact that there was some that was weaponized near quebec city on Grosse Isle durring the WW2 and that they are disposed in barrels at the bottom of the Saint-Lawrence river. We haven't seen any confirmation that it has been neutralized from what I know, so it could be scary if it escape the barrel that contain them
Being an adult now just replaces my fear of quicksand to anthrax
Cool hair
Rabies
@@henriquefinger935 then get the rabies vax
@@henriquefinger935 just get the rabies vaccine lol.
I really thought when i was a kid that quicksand was going to be a bigger problem in the world
“God made dirt and dirt don’t hurt”
Anthrax - EXISTS
Who made that quote
@@greuss2105 i made it. He borrowed it though, he asked if he could use it and i reluctantly agreed
@@greuss2105 I’m probably just an uncultured swine that doesn’t know where the quote *originally* came from but I remember hearing it in an AJJ song so there’s that..?
Idk lol
Tell that to 13 year old me falling out of a tree, dirt definitely hurt then lol
@@Stabbyhara the songs called God made dirt
Thanks the farmers for being extremely aware of the risk
dude oh my god, i swear to god i had a dream about this video like 4 or 5 months ago and the only phrase i could remember was "1 corpse could cause so much damage" and i kept thinking about it for probably 2 weeks straight
List of Anthrax attacks:
"This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it."
The Codex Anthracis is born from the orders of RussianBadger
💀
Bruh?
We can’t expect god to do all the work
red team go! red team go!
I was vaccinated for Anthrax while in the Army, but I still feel the urge to headbang when I hear "Caught in a Mosh".
hahaaa nice
Mocum
To be immune you need a shoot every 12 months , i guess you didn't have a shoot in years and you are not immune to anthrax now ...
Lol, me too
Not me
Its always worth noting that there are ballistic subs that carry dozens of nuclear warheads that make the bombs that decimated Nagasaki and Hiroshima look like firecrackers, but bio weapons are the things that are banned.
Id rather vaporize instantly than die slowly with some horrible disease. But I get your point.
@@fearfullywonderfullymade4057 yeah but you only vaporize if you’re lucky. A bit further away from impact your death will be just as slow and miserable.
One is used defensively, the other is terrorism and needless cruelty at best
one can be used against bunkers, forts and trenches, the other only against population centers. (the attempts with poisoned animals all failed)
that's like comparing letter bombs to politicians/generals to the holocaust. sure, things that go boom arent nice and it'd be nice if countries stopped dropping them on cities, but they are effective in the field and it would be very naive to forbid them.
atst it's a well known fact though that "frustrating the populace" literally never works and that only a military or political victory can ever win a war. civil wars wont just happen from some bombing/poisoning etc that could ever help the war effort in a remotely efficient way.
What authority can tell the continent cleaners no? Continents?
Great video! i didn't expect a video about a bioweapon that's 22 minutes long wouild keep me here for through the entire way!
Well done!
As my first research lab professor said, “Joke all you like, but don’t forget. These bugs were here before us, and the smart money says they’ll be here after.”
That's sobering.
Nahhh just trying to calm people with vaccines instead of Natural selection
@@ryanfraga128 humans are fragile. Covid kills
@@MuchCow9000 Fragile in are emotions of love that cause pain because many don't know how too let go. So you see the light, but can you also see the dark and find the balance?
@@ryanfraga128 Fragile as in general. We thrive in our ecosystem due to tech, language, art, yes but, we still live in a biome full of many little organisms which can easily kill us
My eldest son made an interesting note about this. What if all of those "cursed objects" that are handed down in families in history actually have anthrax spores on them which is what actually killed those who inherited them.
Edit: Well, this has done better than I ever thought it would. Thank you! I actually thanked my son but he said that his dad and I deserve all the credit because we taught him and his brother to question everything.
That's actually a really plausible point.
Smart kid!
Logical, but low probability.
Disown him
Interesting 🧐
This is why I love microbiology and now I work in a microbiological laboratory.
2:30
I would actually like to point out that there are 4 main ways people encounter Anthrax poisoning; cutaneous, inhalation, gastrointestinal and introcutaneous. Most commonly through syringe injection, it has never been reported in the United States, but recently it’s been a problem with drug users in northern Europe via contaminated needles. Symptoms are similar to cutaneous, yet the infection can be deeper under the skin or develop in muscle tissue. Along with this, it’s harder to treat because it spreads more rapidly than cutaneous and can be harder to recognize at first.
I’m convinced this man runs at least 30 TH-cam channels
45 at least
Yet his vids are always good. With the exception of like one
Every channel he hosts adds to his power. Eventually he'll create more than 90% of all TH-cam content and will own us all. And we shall all be grateful.
Getting the bag
He has come a long way, that's for sure
It's crazy this just naturally exists in the dirt. As a kid I thought it was a man made chemical. I'd love to learn just how far back this bacteria goes and see just how ancient it is.
I thought it was man made as well. Crazy.
It's infinite..as a veterinarian, i got a farm call for a 'down cow'...when i arrived, the poor thing was already black and swollen..to make a long story short, i had to report my suspicion to the state, and we had to bury it 10 feet deep and burned the ENTIRE lot..the head of 150 were culled, and the poor guy lost everything...devastatingly beautiful, oddly
As a kid I heard about anthrax being mailed, for like 10 years i was scared of mail
@@frenchlasagna8138 Why aren't you scared of mail anymore, and what's your address?
@@piterpraker3399 r/cursedcomments
I learned a lot about anthrax from (of all people) my mother. She grew up on a farm and wrote a research paper about it for FFA.
I also learned that sheep are especially prone to contracting it because they crop the grass so close to the soil (often down to the rhizome) when they graze. So their mouths will contact the soil and they'll pick up the spores.
I caught Anthrax at a show in Norfolk Va back in the early 90’s and never been the same since.
I remember the Anthrax scare of 2001. After 9/11, those were intensely cautious times after the loss of the relatively easy-going decade before it.
The 90s were an amazing time. I miss them.
I was in the military at the time, and if you were being deployed to the Middle East, you were offered the vaccination.
The metal band Anthrax (check them out, they're amazing) almost had to change their name because of that lol
The 90s were the best. Even the 80s had cold war. And the music was 1000x better. Movies are better nowadays though.
Same. Was a freshman in high school
We all owe osmosis jones our lives for killing mr. thrax before he killed frank.
Thank goodness for osmosis jones
@@Synthanicmusic hero for typing this
@@Synthanicmusic Take my like anyway+
@@Synthanicmusic that's obvious but it was when you said it and the fact it's first comment.
osmosis jones? isn't that the movie where Bill Murray eats an egg that he picked up from the ground?
I found this amazingly interesting & scary 😳 😬. The ice caps melting and releasing ultra old anthrax sounds very possible..... let's pray it never happens 🙏
Thanks for the binge but I'm def on a watch list now
New fear unlocked 🔓
:(
I agree, first it’s severe Radiation poisoning now this.
@@HeatheringLilacs at what opportunity would you be severely irradiated
@@tobi-xo3if ingesting an alpha source will do a good job of that
Don’t worry there is a vaccine for anthrax and you get it every year
Using our deadliest plagues as our trump card against aliens would be a cool movie plot I think
War of the worlds kinda did that. Except it was just an accident. Humans didn't weaponize the flu the aliens just got it
@@darkcornholio That was the joke I think.
Don't diseases like this make time travel impossible?
Unless you can vaccinate for all diseases in the last XXXXXXXX years that you plan on traveling through(to reach the planned destination) you'd be dead as soon as you contact pretty much any bacteria lol
@@mutt9779 This is actually the plot of an iphone game I played a couple years ago called the silent age. You might want to check it out!
I like you dude, wow that's an amazing idea
My grandfather was involved in Anthrax research during the second World War, apparently infected horses were buried at a site in Cambridge where there is now houses.
this man has so many channels and im excited everytime i find a new one
I love how you're not afraid to show the dark side of history and stuff, even if you lose money (demonetisation). It's really important to do that do that these later generations know and understand history.
Whether it's good or bad, it's still a part of history.
@@dripkidd8572 true
Why would he be demontized for talking about history?
I WONDER WHY????
maybe hes like winston in 1984 and quietly removing details that dont fit the wanted narrative
@@TruthNeverFade sorry I meant demonetisation
I caught a flesh eating bacteria that ate into my arm. I caught it from the dirt in an alley way. Not quite Anthrax but yeah, I can see how that might happen.
@Adam Yeah was pretty serious too. Caused me to get sepsis and I had to stay in hospital for four days on a drip of super antibiotics. All good in the end though. Just got a scar where the hole in my arm was.
@@robertbirt9166 sepsis gang
Happened to me as well after cellulitis
@@S_t_r_e_s_s happened to me after my stomach’s bacteria biome got wiped out from an antibiotic that I had to take for oral surgery. I was very near death, about to go into septic shock though. Great times in 8th grade.
Wow, did it like seep into a cut or did you just get some dirt in your skin and it started just eating away at it
Cool!I mean i never see that...
As a kid who grew up playing Command and Conquer Generals, Anthrax has always fascinated and scared the hell outta me.
Sir,your videos are simply fascinating
"Coronavirus? Yeah, man! I saw them open for Anthrax back in '87!"
Both are actually decent band names, I hadn’t thought about it that way
Average Awesome well yeah anthrax is one of the biggest metal bands of all time
@@CartoonKidOLLY didn’t know that, thanks I’ll check em out
Was that the bite of 87
Anthrax opened for Corona. Not the other way around. Turns out Corona was actually Milli-Vanilli in disguise.
A couple of farmers nearby found Anthrax in their soil while digging, same afternoon some special forces looking guys came in with full hazmat, killed all the cattle and then burned everything to the ground.
Welp, understandable. As long as the farmers were compensated.
How did they recognise the Anthrax?
@@luxfux8764 Soil sample. Farmers take soil samples for many reasons and someone in the lab recognized it.
@@benjaminjernfors that makes sense, thanks for the response.
Where do you live?
We all should be made aware of this type of content… wonderful work
that perma-frost concern was very interesting to hear
Symptoms: low fever with chills
Me with a cold: maybe I have anthrax
C o r o n a v i r u s
@@dimejil-suleimon1813 *E B O L A*
AIDS
Errr ANTHRAX
Cancer
When a new suburb was being built near my city they found what is called an “anthrax hill” (mass grave sort of burial hill of animals and people believed to have died from anthrax) from the late Middle Ages and they had to stop the entire construction project for months to decontaminate the area
Dude, wtf!?
So we could all be living on a Fucking mound of anthrax?
@@greencircles7364 Technically, not "could", we 100% are in some amount. Same thing with uranium. It's also everywhere in the dirt, it's just not concentrated or refined
@@greencircles7364
In Europe, maybe. In America, probably not.
@@superkamiguru6856 Video literally said it naturally exists in America
ive seen this video like 7 times its so cool and interesting!! thank you so much for making this
Thanks for the tutorial video!
Odd title. I was expecting something like:
‘A man walked outside, this is what nature did to his brain’.
Were you just watching Brew? X-D
@@Sara3346
Chubbyemu did it first
😂
@@Sara3346 Chubbyemu
@@ultimatdanklin1473 I doubt they started clickbait specifically.
North Korea: how tf does the bald man know our secrets
I am 500k of this mans subscribers
@@kimjong-un8413 oh Kim you silly silly sausage you!
Ahahahahaha baldy is a talking Pe_Nus
From trump
It’s not their secret it’s the bald man’s secret now
Louis Pasteur's work is trully fascinating.
Well made video, I enjoy this new format
I’m not going to lie. I admire the ability for anthrax to endure and not sacrifice lethality over extremely long periods of time.
this guy admiring a bacteria
I dread that, honestly....
True. You would think the bacteria would make itself less harmful.
So proud of anthrax
it was clearly inspired by how I play plague inc
This video could also be titled “welcome to the FBI watchlist”
Lol
First time?
Been there since 08 I’m chilling
I mean if you aren't already on it are you really even trying?
Is this comment a ledger?
Very interesting look at anthrax. Liked the theory about possible increased risk with climate change. Cheers. 👍
Fun fact:
As of 2024, 12 nations are not part of the Biological Weapons Convention officially.
4 of these nations (Egypt, Somalia, Haiti, Syria) have signed the treaty, but Not yet ratified it.
The other 8 nations have outright just not signed. These nations are as follows:
Chad, the Comoros, Djibouti, Kiribati, Micronesia, Tuvalu and Israel.
"Because as Koch arrived in Ballstein"
The jokes write themselves.
Xbox 360 charecter 😆
“Ballstein was in the grip of the deadly plague” and thus the self writing continues
Haha Koch and Balls XD
@@mkvector9539 funni
Ur pfp is nostalgia
Fun fact: In russian anthrax literally means "Siberian ulcer" (Сибирская язва)
Kron is the coolest surname I have EVER heard - it's even cooler than Volkov - but drop the Daniel - you are Alexi now.
@@JohnnyWednesday thanks i guess😅
Since ulcer mostly refers to a gastrointestinal wound, “a Siberian pox” or something would be more appropriate.
Only in Russia would one of the most dangerous bio weapons be called an ulcer. 😆
@Matt React quite good one too
After watching the video on Ricin and now this, I’m pretty sure I’m on multiple watchlists now
I was in Wiltshire in England (1978 ish) when we had an Anthrax outbreak. This was supposedly caused by infected stock feed (nuts???) from South America ???? We shot EVERYTHING and the corpses were cremated in pits with tons of coal to destroy the bodies. The pits were then backfilled with Lime. The only other time I have done this sort of thing was in Dorset (1972 ish) when we had an outbreak of Foot and Mouth. Once again we shot everything including endangered species. No travelling around the area and straw impregnated with disinfectant everywhere. The underside of the car I drove ( I delivered newspapers, cigarettes and alcohol) was sprayed with disinfectant 2 or 3 times a day. The CLEANEST car I have ever driven in my life.
Deadly Pathogen: *exists*
Military: *"Okay but what of we made it a weapon"*
Militaries after seeing this video: write that down WRITE THAT DOWN
@safari mang that's what everybody's saying and then innocent people are dying.
@@mikaelleonbriones6356 That's literally the FBI going through the names in this comments section.
*something deadly that kills people*
Military:"make it deadly and kill people......more?"
I mean its only logical
Spores coming out after 100 years in a deer: "My time has come"
Do I hear the start of the power rangers theme ?
We’ve been waiting for this folks! This is not a drill!! Go go go! Lol
Boss music starts playing
@TH-cam Elite Censorship Bot We live in a society
@TH-cam Elite Censorship Bot what are you supposed to not joke about it? It’s not a national tragedy or anything u snowflake
Thank god for Kock. I love when my Kock figures things out for me.
Welp, the GLA was certainly on point about using it
The Anthrax scares led to anthrax featuring heavily in the game “C&C Generals” in which the big bad terrorist faction used anthrax sprayers and anthrax laden missiles.
Just one of the many silly things about that game was the fact that the anthrax killed infantry rapidly, behaving more like a chemical weapon like nerve gas rather than a disease that takes a few days to kill.
Can’t be a crazy as one of the factions using nuclear suicide trucks in Red Alert 2.
@@jprec5174 I believe that was the Libyan sub-faction of the Soviets.
@@samiamrg7 All of them have crazy Ivan as a standard suicidal infantry, too. Cuban has stronger version.
iirc its the GLA faction that developed it
"Heh every moment you delay, you DIE a little bit more" - Dr Thrax
Centuries-old deadly spores coming out of the permafrost would make for a great horror movie.
Edit: Good God, I've heard of "The Thaw". About a million people have recommended it. Read the other posts before making your contribution, please.
There's a show about something very similar the shows name is fortitude.
Coming out in summer 2021.
V Wars Netflix series it is meh
A b rated movie did it with bugs the thaw if you never saw it its....okay.
We're going to be living it pretty soon
This was very interesting. I was fully engaged the whole video!
The 2001 anthrax case is fascinating.PBS has a phenomenal documentary on it
We’ll never know exactly how many people Koch and Pasteur saved....but it might be all of them
All you need is a little Koch.
@@kellanaldous7092 This ain’t the 80’s anymore, nowadays all you need is a little Crach.
@@kellanaldous7092 why not a big Koch?
Real talk, if these people never did the work they did, our understanding of how to prevent disease would have been decades behind what it is now. It’s very likely that sulfa-drugs wouldn’t have been developed, penicillin wouldn’t have been discovered, and very likely that our understanding of viruses would be so rudimentary that Ebola would have devastated the world. It’s why in science we very much respect those who came before. Each generation stand upon the shoulder of giants, who then become giants themselves for the next.
All of THEM 🙏
No mater where I go in the TH-cam algorithm, I cannot escape this man. This fellow with a rather lovely voice just won't stop teaching me relatively useless knowledge.
Idk why this is so hilarious to me. 🤣 he’s EVERYWHERE!
🤣🤣
Knowledge is NEVER useless, my guy...
@@pedrosantos0905 knowledge is power...
Every time I see another of his videos in my recommended, it ends up being on a channel I didn't even know he had.
Nice to know someone with enough patience can build up enough airborne anthrax to deploy over any country or city with a small plane
Very interesting video, I had grown up during the anthrax scare in the US and assumed it was some lab chemical powder sent through the mail. Horrifying stuff in all reality.
I thought the Big 4 were Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth, and Metallica.
Lol was waiting for someone to make a comment about the band
‘Spreading the Disease’
Don't forget Nickle
I legitimately thought this was the band
@@willhersey3884 me too!
Anthrax? BRING THE NOISE!!!
Hell yeah
80s metalheads understand.
Caught in a Mosh!
I am the law!!!
NFL
Very informative - and scary. Thank you ❤
Got the time, tick,tick,ticking in my head
You know, when you think about global warming, anthrax isn't really the first thing that comes to mind. That realization has kind of unnerved me now.
It is pretty incredible actually the relationship between global warming and disease. For example mosquito bourne viruses such as malaria and dengue are migrating to areas they didn't previously exist in, and their "seasons" are longer as the warmer climates are allowing the mosquitoes to live in places and times of the year that were previously inhospitable to them.
we have anthrax vaccines so we arent COMPLETELY screwed
@@oleanderrots but we know how people feel about vaccines right now, so we probably still are lol
@@TsubomiKido_hoodie not everyonr has seen the devastation covid can bring, it has like a 1% death rate after all (still think people who can should get vaccinated lol) but for fucked up diseases like anthrax I believe more people would be willing to get vaccinated
i mean, climate change is gonna be bad enough on its own, so i guess that's why most people don't even bother to look at any potential negative side-effects.
The auto captions keep censoring "Koch" and I'm dying laughing 😂
In the eternal words of James May: "Oh Koch"
So now guns are censored?
Yeah 😂 it did let "cocks" slip though.
what an unfortunate name
Currently watching this while working in microbiology haha how scary bacteria can be !
Thanks for giving me inspiration
I read the thumbnail as “anthrax, the perfect blow weapon” and shrugged it off as “yeah, just rub that junk on the darts of a blowgun. Makes sense”
Same here
Same!
I once got a blowie to an anthrax song, does that count?
“Eating infected meat... brought on the black market.” where have we heard that before?
Rumors yes but it didnt actual happen dor this outbreak, covid 19 is a type of carona, carina viruses are literaly passed by water molecules in the breath the virus dies shortly after its host most carona type viruses need a liv8ng host to spread a pet would 9f spread the virus the rumor only came around because they said it statted 8n a fish market prob”em is they sell live exitic pet bats their
@@demonic_myst4503 not going to lie I had a minor stroke reading this
@@recklesflam1ngo968 Well he had a stroke typing it.
And anyway it's a benign agent meant to justify global lockdowns.
@@piterpraker3399 It is only the way it is because we are fighting against it with lockdowns. People around me have lost friends and family members to covid. It has already increased the yearly death with 10% in my country with lockdowns, I do not want to imagine what would've happened without the lockdowns
@@thesavantart8480 Right. You fear what would happen without control over you "for your own protection" - regardless of who the supposed virus targets, and without an eye towards the disappearance of common infections.
There will never be a vaccine to get rid of this thing. It mutates as much as a cold. If ever the spread was to be stopped, it would have been at it's point of origin. The CCP bought it enough time to take off.
Is it miraculous that you can have and spread the thing without symptoms, and that any other common infection will have you testing positive via pcr? It's not magic - it's corruption.
I’ve been scrolling through the comments for a few minutes now and I have yet to see anyone mention the band
5:29 "Way! Free stuff!" 🤣
A local guy to me in Scotland died from anthrax after making drum's from badger skins, His cottage was like the scene from E.T with all the fumigators and tent's.
"Anthrax: perfect bio-weapon" **c&c generals gla flashbacks**
*happy toxin tractor noises*
SCUD Missile Superweapon: *0 :00*
"Anthraxxxxxx.... it really does a body... BAD!!! Muahahaha!!!"
-forgot characters name. Dr. Thrax or something? Whatever,
Command and Conquer rules
NOBODY:
Game Announcement: *WARNING! Scud launcher has been launched*
Me: HEH?!?!?!?
Anthrax beta and gamma intensifies
Simon Whistler, Simon Whistler, how the mighty do fall
This sad broken man was once standing tall
command and conquer generals has a ton of weapons using anthrax, with one sub faction even using it as a primary weapon. i never realized it was this lethal, always thought anthrax was just a videogame weapon, it killed soldiers ridiculously fast and could event destroy tanks and other vehicles. SOMEHOW. one of the weapons that used anthrax was an improvised tractor with a hose that sprayed anthrax everywhere
In January 2021, there was a small outbreak in NSW Australia in sheep. It's still here...
It mostly effects livestock
Such outbreaks are relatively common so unless you’re a epidemiologist or a rancher/shepherd you have nothing to worry about
there was also an outbreak a few years back here in indonesia. s'honestly a lot more common than you think.
Its everywhere in the soil in australia and all over the world
@@YataTheFifteenth yeah the good thing about anthrax is that it doesn’t spread person to person so if there is an outbreak it will most likely be very limited. That’s why it’s most frightening as a bio weapon
Seems an easy way to control farm industry
It really isn't the perfect bio weapon if you think about it. The main advantage of bio weapons over conventional weapons is that they leave all infrastructure, industry, land, etc intact for later invasion/annexation of a targeted territory. Anthrax spores make any target zone uninhabitable for a considerable time period. Also, unlike most bio weapons, there is no person to person transmission, meaning it is relatively easy to contain the spread, and a much larger quantity of biomass must be used over a much wider area to achieve similar results as say weaponized small or other such bio weapons. It might be perfect for assassinations or other such targeted attacks, but as a large scale weapon it falls short.
Good point, I think that the lack of transmissability works in its favour though. The biggest risk of using bioweapons (other than your enemies using them against you in retaliation) is it blowing back in your face.
It might not leave infrastructure usable, but at least it won't end up killing your own people as much 🤷♀️
That’s why militaries don’t use them.
True, I think anthrax is more comparable to nuclear weapons, it is a rather localized attack that essentially just kills all people living within a certain area and makes said area uninhabitable for a long time. Even then it's less efficient than an actual nuke, because it doesn't kill instantly (which leaves time for infected people to get cured). Additionally it probably requires a lot more time and money to refine enough anthrax to affect an area similar in size to what a nuke would affect than just making and dropping an actual nuke. So yeah, interesting concept but overall there are more efficient ways of achieving whatever goal one might have in a large scale war. Could be argued that it might be a suitable weapon for countries that can't get or make nuclear weapons, but then it would just get back to the cost, I think that refining enough anthrax to kill the entire population of a large city is probably a lot more expensive than just starting a nuclear weapons program, and it is also a biological weapon so countries wanting to utilize it would still have to make it in complete secrecy.
I know this is old but technically he said "nature's perfect bioweapon", not "perfect bioweapon". Anthrax is produced by nature whereas other bioweapons that could be considered perfect are lab made. I know there is lab made anthrax but my point being anthrax is nature produced and things like saren gas are not, so it could still be considered natures perfect bioweapon.
@@HippieInHeart the main "upside" to an anthrax fallout vs a nuclear one is, i would assume, the former would not spur a MAD protocol thus killing both parties involved. An anthrax contamination can be resolved much easier than nuclear fallout and, like you said, can target much smaller areas which could help with disabling institutions while leaving residential areas safe.
Funny description. Great video. Thanks
In the 80's, I was in Bakersfield California taking microbiology. We were supposed to culture our kitchens, and one woman who lived near a feedlot grew anthrax. She had to have her home professionally sanitized...