Correction: Hugo died in 1980, not 2022. It was believed he developed depression after spending two years alone in a tiny pool while his new tank was under construction. Apparently after that, he completely fell apart mentally
Also don't let anybody forget my girl Lolita who was Hugo's tankmate and went to live another three decades completely alone in the tiny pool. Only to be given a pass for reintroduction to the wild when she was too sick to transport. SIP girl, the news of her death are still too fresh for me.
I remember researching rabies for a school project, and what freaked me out the most wasn't the hydrophobia alone, but that combined with dehydration. You know you will die without water and you need it, but can't bring yourself to drink any. It's maddening.
What do the doctors do for you? Do they sedate you or something, or do they just keep you alive until you die? There are these clips of these people foaming at the mouth in the hospital and unable to drink, but if it was me I wish they'd just kill me if I'm at that point
The rabies epidemic in India actually began increasing at an alarming rate when humans decided vultures were a pest and began poisoning them. Vultures like many birds don’t get rabies and vultures being the clean up crew actually limit the spread of rabies by lessening the amount of animal carcasses lying around for stray dogs to scavenge. We need vultures.
I'm glad you mentioned that. It wasn't until recently, when I was watching a safari doc, that I learned that and it changed my opinion of vultures forever.
It’s actually Terrifying that so many animals are affected by these horrible diseases where the point they are a lost cause, it is depressing especially The Rabies.
I think only two humans have survived (naturally) the Rabies so far (haven't refreshed my knowledge on this dreaded thing in a while now). If you go in the wild often, see animals or live near nature, best get the shot, because that might save your life. Also, don't get near animals that come to you... obsessively. In general, try to avoid touching animals as a rule. The chances of them having Rabies are small, but they are not 0. This is one disease everyone should be aware of, AND in the off-chance you see a Rabies infected animals, call local animal control, because that sh!t spreads like a yeast infection once it gets into populated areas. You might escape it, but the kid next door might not.
@@aserta thanks for the advice!, and especially stay away from Raccoons, they are ESPECIALLY known to carry rabies, never trust a wild Animal. Because you don’t know what you got carrying on you…
Most recent knowledge I have is that only one Person has survived rabies untreated with severe mental issues, and a handful have survived with intense medical treatment and brain damage.
Remember kids if you're bitten by ANY stray or wild animal, regardless of whether or not it's foaming at the mouth, you seek immediate medical attention! If they catch rabies early on, it's much easier to treat.
My best friend of 40+ years had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It was cruel & very hard to watch knowing that once diagnosed there was nothing anyone could do. She went from an exceptionally intelligent woman to someone with symptoms not unlike advanced dementia along with chronic weight loss within a few weeks of being hospitalized. And it was only a matter of days after diagnosis that she passed. It doesn't show on scans until it's too late.
Oh no, it's worse than that, sadly. It's not that CJD's not showing on scans until it's too late--it's just that having the disease at all is fatal. There is no cure and no effective treatment. Cancer *may* be a death sentence, but CJD *is* one. It's worse than rabies, where if you treat it BEFORE symptoms show the person will live. With CJD, if you have it, you cannot be helped at any point in time. All they can do is make you more comfortable. That's why it's so terrifying.
@@WynneL I agree. I should have clarified my comment by saying that once it shows on a scan it's too late for that person to be able to get their affairs in order since the symptoms (the degradation of the ability to mentally function) usually escalate so fast. By the time the doctors had identified CJD in my friend & we all understood that there was no cure or treatment, she had no time or the mental capacity to make sure we knew what she wanted for her son, who was still in his teens, or what she wanted for her funeral. She had no idea what was happening to her. It was heartbreaking & even now, 7 months later it still chokes me up. I miss her so much but I am glad that I had her in my life even if that time was far too short.
@@CoreKatalyst Thank you for your kind thoughts. The one good thing to come out of it is knowing now what the symptoms look like. Hopefully, I'll never see them in someone else again but, if I do at least I can be prepared & help prepare others.
Had to study zoochosis as part of my college course it was heartbreaking Also seen zoochosis in a bear and two elephants (the elephants were rescues from circus and loggers one was branded the other had a damaged spine) they just stood there swaying Thankfully the zoo has now sent them to a sanctuary where they'll have more space and be around other elephants
Zoochosis is awful... saw a bear with it in Malaysia, near Kuala Lumpur. There was a note near its enclosure asking people to not gawk, or try to get its attention, and that they were caring for it but guests needed to minimise its stress. One could ask "Why wasn't the bear removed from viewing?", and it's possible that they either didn't have a suitably large environment for them to recover long-term, or that they feared moving it might worsen the situation. I think about that bear sometimes, pacing left and right so much it made a path in the dirt for itself...
Zoochosis is one of the most terrifying to me. I've listened to testimony from prisoners kept in solitary confinement, children and adults. Taking their stories at face value, the hallucinations they can experience are severe. Like some Alice in Wonderland shit. In highly intelligent and social animals, I have no doubt the experience is just as severe and traumatic.
For a frame of reference one of the most horrifying forms of torture used in Iran is "white room treatment" where you're locked in a plain white room in solitary confinement for long stretches of time, which isnt much better than what some zoo animals are put through. Some people put through it have said they preferred beatings. There's been cases where temperamental or difficult horses were given a partner in their stable or even just a goat and seen a world of change afterwards, makes you wonder if its just loneliness and having another ungulate to keep them company is why their mood improves. Some animals are hardwired to be in groups and it can seriously screw them up being alone, some animals like dogs and cats can be fine without another of their kind around but that's just because they've evolved to see their human as another cat/dog
Please bear in mind: The definition of zoochosis is _stereotypies in _*_non-human_*_ animals._ Meaning humans don't get, "zoochosis," they get behavioral disorders, or dementia, or schizophrenia. Just like humans don't get "mange", they get "scabies," even though it's caused by the same thing. The term is different if it occurs in humans.
I recently came back from Mule Deer hunting season. This year was the first time I ever witnessed a deer with Chronic Wasting Disease. I didn't know what to do so I contacted the Fish and Wildlife department and they told me to shoot it and a W&F Officer would would come out to collect it. It was actually quite sad.
@John_Weiss Thank you for clarifying that. We don't need to give people another reason to compare people with mental illness or brain disorders to animals.
I am a zoologist who has specialized in zoonotic infections diseases for the last 25 years. I am a wildlife biologist, histologist & microbiologist. I have worked with all these diseases you have mentioned. I tell you what; I am impressed. I am very impressed with your videos and this one. I've watched them through the years and my friend you are on point while including layers of entertainment. I wish you the best & keep at it.
As a biology student, describing prion diseases as "a cellular level cheese touch" is the best thing I've ever heard. I will be using this as my new analogy for studying.
@@dirtyweapons3459 I want to say the "cheese touch" is referencing "Diary of a Wimpy Kid." The Cheese Touch is apparently a game where whoever is forced to touch or eat some moldy Swiss cheese is a social outcast until they get someone else to also have contact with the cheese. I have not actually read the book(s) or seen the movie, so I don't really know the nuances of how the Cheese Touch is enforced. In the movie it sounds like any physical contact with the infected individual transmits the Cheese Touch, even though it does not clarify how the bullies are able to facilitate contact with the cheese without touching the cheese or affected individual themselves.
I hope you use your education to look for some way to fight these terrifying proteins. At least rabies is a virus, it's sorta-like alive, I can understand that. Prions are like an evil cosmic mistake, something even the most twisted human being couldn't have thought up.
"Diseases can have animals permanently paralleled to the ground". I've said it before, I'll say it again : this guy's success is not only due to his expertise on unconventional animal knowledge...it's ALSO the fact that he's a very good comedic writer!
I will complain that he keeps using down bad as a term for them going through something highly physically detrimental when he knows that's not what down bad means. Quite the opposite actually, down bad expresses a certain vitality to it. It is in no way at all applicable to death.
Worth mentioning: The animal is still contagious before it starts foaming at the mouth. All too many people think that if it’s not foaming at the mouth and just coming up to you, it’s not contagious. If you see an animal displaying weird behaviour, DONT GO TO IT. Even if it looks like it is in distress, DO NOT. It’s not worth YOUR life and that of everyone else you might accidentally get sick. Don’t do it.
Yes, and don't put the animal out of its misery either. Even if you shoot it from a distance, you WILL spread the disease into the surrounding area. All it takes is a drop of saliva on the ground.
Just yesterday, I saw a video where a woman showed herself finding a mouse burrowed into the dirt in her potted plant, so she grabbed it with her hand to remove it, and it bit her. Instead of putting it outside,she made it a home for him in their house. The comment section was SCREAMING st her to go to a doctor immediately, but apparently she didn't think it was necessary. I should've subbed to find out in 3 weeks if she got rabies, or not!
And if you get bit, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, go to the hospital and get a rabies vaccine. It takes quite a long time to reach the brain, and if you get vaccinated before it reaches the brain, your body will produce antibodies and eradicate the virus, and you will likely be okay. But if it reaches the brain, it is too late, and you will be an incredibly rare edge case if you can be treated and survive.
Interesting note, in the second Jurassic Park book, written by Michael Crichton, all the dinosaurs are doomed to die because they pick up an prions infection due to them being fed a bad batch of sheep extract. Long story short Ingen try to eradicate it and thought they did but it turns out that the prion disease (known as DX in the novel) exists in dinosaur feces which the small scavengers (the compys) eat, then they spread it to carcasses which in turn lead to all the raptors becoming infected and the raptors hunt live prey, not always successfully but one bit is enough to spread the disease and as a result, bit by bit the infect spreads throughout the whole island again and upon leaving the human characters realise that pretty much everything on the island is doomed to die. I'd seriously recommend reading the books.
@ncapone87 Crichton ignored it via the same reason the films did, eg the animals eat lysine rich plants (this is hinted at during the end of the first book which implies that either compys or raptors have got off the island and are suspiciously nibbling at lysine rich plants. Granted at the end of the lost world book we're left with the conclusion that ever dinosaur on site b is doomed to die. Hence Crichton's version of Jurassic Park ends there.
@@greenveilgaming1149 I do now remember that bit at the end of the first book. I should reread them. I haven't read Lost World in 24 years but I reread JP a couple years ago. I own both but haven't gotten to LW yet
One of my ancestors got rabies. He was a blacksmith and caught it by killing a rabid dog with his hammer that was trying to attack a group of kids (he was my grandfathers grandfather). They had to just tie him to a bed and wait for him to die. From the way my grandpa described, what happened to him was TERRIFYING.
From what I have studied humans with rabies are just as violent as animals with rabies, only difference is (to my knowledge) humans can't spread it to other humans? (Not sure about that though)
@@emcaco Well even then, we are capable of literally ripping other people's faces off in the correct circumstances. We might not be as adapted to our chompers for combat, but they can still very much so be used. :(
I really don't buy that theory. yes, humanity at large is quite miserable right now, but I'm thinking that has more to do with capitalism and climate change than anything inherent to civilization
If anything, it teaches us that humans NEED more worldly stimulation. Humanity has only grown more isolated as technology and other conveniences become available, and while these ARE amazing, we can’t let ourselves become so consumed into our own little worlds that we forget to give our minds and bodies the stimulation they need. We were originally a nomadic species, we went from place to place, and we trained our bodies as well as our minds with new experiences. We still need that in some capacity.
Rabies is also theorized to be the reason humans have an "uncanny valley"! Instinctively avoiding humans that looked slightly off or behaved weirdly was a good way to avoid getting rabies before logic or weapons existed.
It’s creepy even with animals. It’s like seeing something unspeakably malevolent take the image of something that used to be a dog, fox or wolf. A human would be bloodcurdling
@@ianbrooks1769 not an expert or anything but i can't see how that would work evolutionarily? like if we evolved to experience uncanny valley in response to other kinds of early humans, it would imply that those who didn't experience the uncanny feeling were killed before producing offspring, but the opposite is true right? a lot of modern humans have neanderthal dna
There was a guy at my high school who got bitten by a monkey with rabies while he was on vacation. Luckily they knew what it was right away and he got treated immediately, but he was still gone for months in recovery. Everyone was so excited when he came back to school, healthy and normal.
My cousin’s dog my arm and drew blood when I was at her house in MI. *Two weeks later* after I’m back home in A, she calls and says “Oh btw Odie didn’t get his rabies booster this year.” I could have gotten it by then!”
I could be wrong, but I think I've heard that rabies is only transmissible in the last stage, if the dog wasn't dead from the disease in 10 days it wouldn't have had the right path to infect you.
I remember reading an article about Jeanna Giese, doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with her then her parents remembered a couple months back she was bitten by a bat in church.......when the doctor heard that the blood drained from his face, he knew what was wrong now and he assumed that she was doomed as there was nothing that he could do.
Her story is amazing. The doctors basically just induced her into a coma, gave her antivirals and let her body just fight it. She has made an almost complete recovery and now has kids of her own. Doctors have since tried that method of inducing coma and giving antivirals in 6 other similar rabies cases. All 6 patients died, which makes her story all the more miraculous.
CWD is genuinely terrifying. Not-Deer myths? Absolutely came from this: they turn into MONSTERS. They will run into things until they break their necks, and then keep running, broken legs, so much body horror. It's one of my most feared diseases.
I'm a dog groomer, and things like mange and rabies were things I learned about right away, and things I take seriously (along with other zoonotic things). But the saddest thing about all of this is that I've seen dogs with zoochosis and other neurotic behaviors. It's not limited to zoo animals. I've seen more dogs than I can count crying and repetitively walking back and forth in the kennel, back and forth, back and forth. It's different from a dog who wants to be around the humans and is sad to be in a kennel for a little bit. Those dogs will usually end up relaxing and quieting down after a while. The zoochosis ones will do that the entire time they're in a kennel, even sometimes on the grooming table, and they always cry or vocalize the entire time. It's very clear when you see they haven't been getting any enrichment and are cooped up all day every day. Sadly there's nothing you can do. Animal Control doesn't care unless it's visible signs of abuse (And even then, often times bringing the dog to the groomer is considered "getting help for the dog" even if the dog comes in once a year with his testicles matted to his leg... :/)
I mean .. I'm not adding anything new by saying that people like that shouldn't even have a pet, but I feel like it runs slightly deeper than that. Whyyyyyy would you get a dog that requires the extra care of grooming, when you can't even be bothered with the basics of humane care in the first place??
My great-great(s)-grandmother actually died of rabies. She was a really cool lady apparently; very tall and physically strong, and she once hiked over 200 miles across Eastern Europe in the 1700s as a homeless unaccompanied young woman and lived to tell the tale. She died of a rabid bite after helping her village fend off a pack of wolves (she was in her 70s). Overall an incredible person!
I did an internship at an AZA accredited zoo. Preventing 'zoochosis' (stereotypic behavior) was incredibly important. At the very least you were required to hide food for the animal to 'hunt' and 'forage'...but everyone did need some kind of enrichment. For insects it might just be 'a new fruit they've never had' or 'moving rocks around' but there were some downright bizarre things pulled for larger animals. The cougars once got a rack of lamb attached to a zip line...otters had a playground. Our male hippo particularly liked huge thick plastic rain barrels...and elephants would be fed by either stuffing an entire half a hay bale into a giant rope net or by stuffing what looked like a giant plastic wiffle ball full of straw and hay... Some people should not be trusted with handling wild animals. Some animals simply don't do well in captivity at all. But some animals don't have a home to go to anymore. And until that's fixed...I feel like we humans should take responsibility for that mess and do what we can.
Neat, I'd never heard of enrichment for insects before! Do you know if zoochosis has been observed in inverts? Still seems like a good idea, even if it's a "just in case" thing. Decades ago, back when Zoo Atlanta still had bears, they'd freeze a big trout in a bucket of water and give the resulting fish-pop to the polar bear as a treat. Lots of fun to throw & chase around the swimming hole :)
@@SpaghettyLuvsU I’m not actually sure, I’ll have to look into that. We liked to try and encourage natural behaviors in captivity wherever possible, so anything that encourages anyone to ‘forage’ is pretty much an ideal choice. …some exceptions…often we’d use food to give meds to geriatric animals and some of those guys got awfully cheeky about it. Like “look, kid, we all know you have to give me the banana chunks because I pretend not to know you put the joint stuff in there. So just hand it over.”
I did my placement year at a zoo. One of the other students studied how Asian Short-claw Otters responded to auditory enrichment. Turns out they really love music (especially classic); it was really effective at stopping 'begging' behaviour.
Agreed. I feel that way about domestic animals too. Some people shouldn't own them. Dogs and cats can develope similar issues. I work at an animal shelter and see it all the time. They eat their poop, eat things they shouldn't eat, and will groom till they are missing hair. They will also start rebounding of the walls of their run repetitively without stopping. We have a whole team dedicated to enrichment and all of our volunteers and staff do everything in our power to help them before they start declining. Problem is people will "trap" their animals in side with nothing to do and so they have to be creative. That's when things get bad and they end up coming to our shelter going down hill because someone got an animal and didn't put the work in.
Prion diseases are the true horror to me. Rabies and mange are detectable and treatable. Prion diseases can just pop up without warning at any time in your life and just end you. You might never even know if you were exposed or if your body just glitched. Today you're here, and tomorrow you're just not. They're the ultimate fear for me honestly.
.... you mean they can pop up like... everything else and end you without notice? wait... what exactly is there to fear from Prion diseases... theres only six variants, three preventable by washing surgical instruments when operating on eyes, not eating eachother and not eating rotten meat, the other three kill you before you know whats happening or shut your mind down in a way that you wont realize it anyway.... i dunno... walking across the street during traffic hours seems much scarier 😁
@@sarahroth7034 They are uniformly fatal. These proteins cannot be destroyed, Casual is incorrect when he states heating them destroys them. It only temporarily disables them but once they cool, they can go back to infecting. They're basically indestructible. Only the death of the entire universe will put an end to prions, they'll exist long after all life in the universe is extinguished.
This is 100% the darkest and scariest video you've ever done. Normally, even your most serious videos have jokes and lighter moments, but not this one, it was pure, unfiltered terror
The only thing that separates rabies from a zombie plague is that rabies victims eventually stop moving. If you get bit by an animal, go to the hospital IMMEDIATELY. It's easy to cure in the earliest stage, but you're doomed the moment symptoms start to show. Never let it get to that point.
That, and how a group of rabid animals would presumably just turn on each other, rather than mobbing to all attack the same non-infected target(s) together.
My professor made a similar comparison. Equally as scary, the Black Death still has no cure. If you come into something infected with it, unless you get to a hospital within 24 hours, you're gone. If you get something in your system before then, you can prevent it from taking hold. But if the disease gets into your bloodstream or God forbid a lymph node, you are all capitals FUCKED.
As a hunter, if I ever see a deer that seems even a little bit suspicious, it’s on sight. CWD was drilled into my head from the moment I was interested in hunting. At that point, it’s mercy for the affected deer and every deer in the surrounding area.
It’s also one of those end of the world scenario kinda diseases Like rabies It’s contagiousness, lethality and ability to perform its function unstoppably is something that sounds like pure fiction But truth is scarier than fiction
Zoochosis....so sad. Years ago, at a zoo, I saw a polar bear in their enclosure. Mouth agape, pacing while swaying back and forth. The bear was most definitely not in the best shape. I was so confused and concerned at the time. If that bear has passed away, rip, it most definitely deserved a better life.
i kind of hate a lot of zoos for that. Some animals are basically like human inmates that are stuck in solitary. The animal has little enrichment or toys, often doesnt have others of its kind to keep it company, they often dont keep different species in the same enclosure even though some animals (like horses and goats) actually do well together, and they rarely get much interactions with humans beyond feedings and seeing zoo guests from a distance (although often even that can be rare for some since they often put reflective film on windows so the animals cant see the zoo guests). Some animals NEED to be with others of their kind and some animals NEED tons of space: a wolf my have territory that's as small as 7sqmi or as large as 1000sqmi, most bears cover at least 60sqmi, and migrating species may cover multiple countries or half a continent. Some animals have such a strong drive to be with others that isolation can quickly drive them nuts like some animals that form schools, flocks, or herds may get really anxious on their own. I met someone who got a goat or a sheep (I forget which) but just 1 so it would often huddle up to anything roughly it's size and be afraid to leave that spot, herd animals often need a group or they feel exposed and endangered.
I'm not a regular viewer but I have watched plenty of young TH-camrs obviously reading words from a script that they don't understand and pronounce incorrectly. You on the other hand seem to have a decent grasp on phonics and an interest in the subject being discussed. Good job, keep it up. All the success.
A couple thing I learned about rabies: If you are attacked by an animal with the disease, don't try to fight it. -Even if you have a gun and manage to put it down without a scratch, it doesn't take more than a drop of blood from the gunshot wound going into into your mouth or eyes to infect you.- I have discovered that this previous sentence is false. But the point still stands: the safest course of action is to find shelter and report the incident to an animal control center rather than risking a totally preventable infection. If you do get infected, go to a hospital immediately. Rabies only becomes deadly once you start showing symptoms; it's 100% treatable otherwise.
The treatment is almost as scary as the illness. Don’t you have to get like over 50 shots in your stomach? And don’t the shots become increasingly more painful as your body starts to fight the illness leaving less production of endorphins + the repeated injections causing severe soreness and weakness?
@@Bro1212_ The treatment is nowhere as bad as the disease. The vaccine and wound treatment can cause discomfort but your statement is very overblown, idk where you have the information from but that's definitely not the modern treatment. You do get a lot of injections but muscle soreness is usually the worst thing that happens.
@@Lil_Harvard I wasn’t trying to imply that the treatment is as bad as a death sentence. I was just trying to say that the treatment can be very very unpleasant because you have to undergo a hellish series of shots on top of your body trying to fight the disease
@@Bro1212_ Depends on your definition of hellish I guess. When the worst side effect of the shots are msucle soreness I think I can name a lot of treatments that are a lot worse
When I was a kid, there was an outbreak of scabies at school. I remember how miserable the treatments were even though I wasn’t badly affected, and it created a lifelong paranoia about parasites
“Zoos have the potential for a lot of good and a lot of bad.” As a former intern zookeeper… 100%. A lot of the care for animals comes down to funding. So many zoos are state-owned and not getting the money their animals need. Not every low-income zoo is a bad place, but money buys bigger enclosures and better enrichment… support your local zoos guys
State funded businesses are bad. People can run far more successful businesses than any government can. When your begging the state for money instead of earning it yourself you will always be in trouble.
Better to house a few animals in appropriate size enclosures with enough staff to care for them than several in enclosures that are too small and not have enough staff to give them proper care.
Part of me wonders if a "rolling" zoo would be a good idea. Basically, the animals all have enclosures that are technically connected (one small enclosure/hallway between exhibits). Every few days all animals are moved to the next full sized enclosure over. New area, new experiences, less zoochosis. Obviously though you don't want to get the transition period wrong, nor do you want disease transmission.
Zoos need to be HUGE and have open enclosures for the inhabitants in their own sections set up like their natural habitat. There’s one like that near where I live and the animals are all very happy and very well taken care of. It’s inhumane to keep them in small enclosures and caged up.
Wasted Deer disease and Rabies are so terrifying for the fact that it doesn't just get you sick, but either eating you from the inside or literally manipulating your brain. So terrifying infact that both diseases are probably the inspiration for The Plague of Madness in the episode of Primal, "The Plague of Madness". If you know, you know
Fun fact: a sauropod dinosaur bone was discovered in 2020 with evidence of osteomyelitis and bone parasites, causing it to look almost exactly like Primal's infected sauropod, albeit without the horrifying aggression. Keep in mind that this discovery was made after the episode aired on April 1st.
I think I have come across a deer suffering from wasting disease in the wild. I was driving a family member to an appointment and a deer came out from the woods looking like a walking skeleton. It couldn’t even walk on its own hooves. It was horrible and I didn’t know what to do.
Rabies is perhaps the worst possible way to go. It's one of those things where it's hard to choose if it's more terrifying than being buried alive or not.
buried alive you are still there, you can still fight, and you can rationalize or even accept your fate. rabies, you just get replaced, and then you die
Around 20 years ago i went to the Amsterdam Zoo and a panther had been headbutting a wall for so long that he was bald but the brick wall was black from its hair being embedded in it. One of the most disgusting examples of animal cruelty iv ever seen, in a Fin zoo! Pretty much every animal there was insane. it was vile. :(
I have despised zoos since I went to The National Zoo in DC way back in the mid 1990's. There was an obviously extremely depressed gorilla there. The rest of it wasn't much better. It was horrific.
Of note before the comments inevitably spiral: not all zoos are awful. There are definitely many who are, and in some parts of the world they still suck and should get shut down, no doubt about that. But it's important to mention that the quality of life for animals has increased with time and awareness, and also that some zoos perform vital functions. Such as helping raise the numbers of endangered species, or educating the public. Certain animals should never be in captivity, and a good chunk of zoos suck. But it's not all of them, and making a blanket statement such as that helps nobody.
Wildlife rehabber here, some corrections (specifically with rabies!): The foaming at the mouth isn't a guaranteed symptom and can actually go away! It's just the most commonly shoe because, well, it's great for scares. The more common symptom and the clue that the animal is near death is total paralysis of the hind end! The back legs, and tail are totally numb, meaning you can drag the creature by the tail and it'll feel nothing. I say this because it's actually something that happened to me. A Woman brought a raccoon that she thought had been hit by a car (dragging its hind end) but she couldn't see the injury. His behavior was relatively normal (for an adult, wild raccoon dealing with people), but vocalizations were..... Unnerving. There was none of the usual chittering or chatting, it was growling and screeching. Noises that raccoons don't normally make. He barely nicked me, but we still got him tested and he was GLOWING. He wasn't foaming at the mouth or anything, and his mouth actually look pretty dry, but yeah. The foaming at the mouth isn't guaranteed and it could be a sign of an animal choking. Still, always be careful! In other news, since I'm a wildlife rehabber, I have to carry a card with a list of zoonotic diseases I could possibly get (so doctors know to be careful). It's in alphabetical order. The first one listed is Anthrax. I always make jokes about it.
Some leaves will make dog's mouths foam if they start chewing them. I'm SO lucky that my local park has such leaves and my dog goes straight for them. Scared me the first time
Didn't even have to watch to know rabies would be up there. Terrible disease. My uncle and I had to out down a few beloved dogs who were bit by rabid raccoons. We knew it was a blessing and we were putting them out of their misery but 40 years later it still breaks my heart. RIP Ranger and Tessa
I am so sorry, nothing is more heartbreaking than having to put down a pet, no matter the reason, but especially over something like a life-cancelling disease.
2023 I Don't know you, you don't know me. I caught your response during a casual watch of this vid and it moved me. The world needs more unbiased compassion. Rest in Peace Ranger and Tessa. I wish I knew you. :) Love to @texasred2702 I Don't know anything about you or your uncle, I do know you shared a painful story and hints of a fond memory of long gone pets. I hope you and yours are doing well. :) Huggles to ALL involved :) Thank you for sharing.
I encountered a rabid vole once while out walking my dog. I was very lucky I spotted it before she did! The thing that tipped me off that it was rabid was its behaviour: instead of immediately running away from us, it ran TOWARDS us, then fell on its side. It got up and started running in circles and I got my dog the hell away from there. Even a tiny animal becomes terrifying with that disease.
Pro-life tip: if something seems the opposite of what it should be, then you shouldnt be there. A bunch of men hanging around with 0 children at a park? GTFO A shy animal being bold as fuck? Big problems require bigger distance A random rich celebrity saying they need cash cause they broke? Bro faking it.
Well I mean... There is one way to stop it, but it involves the deaths of over 28 decillion entities. (Animals, Humans, Bacterias, and Plants included)
That or just sacrifying the animal in the worst case. In the case of rabies in dogs and cats (at least in Chile) is to euthanize the infected animal because it is a new focus of the desease (in Chile, rabies are erradicated in the populated zones). That doesn't mean that we kill the native fauna, but we try to keep them at bay for the safety of them and ours. The only one that is treatable from this video that I know of is minge (you just need to wash the animal, on a special bath obviously). But prions and specially rabies don't actually have a cure in animals, except death.
The worst part is, since humans are sentient when they get infected they are completely aware of what’s happening, but can’t do anything to stop it. Imagine having your brain rewired to fear water, and lash out randomly while you suffer from convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and seizures that you can do nothing to stop. It’s horrifying and I’ve done an incredible amount of research on the disease so if I ever run into an infected animal I’ll be able to tell and deal with it properly
at least with rabies we have a vaccine. Prion diseases? pfffft, you just sign your death certificate. also some speculate that Edgar Allen Poe died of rabies.
Hearing about zoocosis has made me realise that i saw a lion with this in Germany It was doing exactly what that leopard was doing. The enclosure was near the entrance to the zoo, it was the first place I visited, i went back before i left some 5 hours later and it was still pacing. Completely ignoring the massive chunk of meat behind it. It made me sad at the time but knowing this has made it even sadder
When I went to the Wilhelma in Stuttgart, there was this cheetah sitting directly in front of the fence. Some people where making noises at him, like you would do to gain a house cats attention. I remember looking directly into his eyes and they just went right through me, like he didnt see me or anything else at all. Its hard to describe but they were the most dead and empty eyes I ever saw, there was just absolutely nothing left. It was haunting and disturbing and left me with this sick feeling in my stomach. I'll never ever forget those eyes and I'll never enter any kind of zoo ever again.
That means the zoo you went to was unethical and abused and neglected a lot of the animals, and you unintentionally became a part of the problem by coming here
Zoocosis is why I don't go to any type of zoo or any place that encloses any animal. I also refuse to ever have an animal that requires confining. It's not right.
I want to tell you how much I appreciate the ACCURACY in your videos. I'm a microbiologist and am sick of watching videos about science, disease, etc and there are multiple errors. I've given up trying to correct the wrong information; I just finally had to say fuck it and quit. With yours I haven't found one error. None! And I also appreciate your humor. So keep up the good work.
Rabies is why you need to get medical treatment ASAP after being bitten by an animal. I read somewhere that, after stray dogs, the most likely animals to infect you with rabies are bats and raccoons, so if either of those ever get close enough to touch you it's a good idea to check of bites or scratches.
And for bats it's best to go get vaccinated even if you don't think you were bit because their fangs are so sharp that they can bite you without you feeling it. Just being touched by a bat is a rabies warning
Bats are especially dangerous in that regard. Unlike other animals, they very rarely die of rabies (or any other disease) thanks to their strong immune system. And that's a bad thing, because they can still get sick and spread it to other species. This also carriers over to other diseases like Ebola or the dreaded Marburg-virus.
Zoochosis happens in elderly people stuck in care facilities as well, with residents CONSTANTLY itching or pulling out their hair, picking at their skin, or just walking/ standing constantly and it normally treated with medications to the point of sedation. When residents pass their afflictions can actually pass on to nearby residents as well.
That's also symptoms of dementia, alzheimers, etc. Their brain isnt working right and it causes stress and repetitive things like picking can be self soothing behaviors. It's also why you see similar actions with some anxiety disorders.
@arthas640 It doesn't just occur in residents with anxiety disorders, dementia or alzheimers either. It can occur in residents that seem well adjusted and take little to no meds. It isn't just about brain impairment.
Some good news: opossums basically can't carry Rabies, because their body temp is too low for the virus to replicate. Vaccinating dogs against rabies - as well as leash laws and a decrease in dog hunting - has led to it diminishing in wild animals drastically. Rabies also only affects mamals, so birds and reptiles and fish are safe from it.
Bat's are also rare to bite anything that isn't prey as long as they aren't being held or whatever. They also rarely get caught in hair like many people say they do. They have pretty decent eye sight plus echolocation which helps them navigate. Mostly they are just interested in easily insects and doing their thing. One really cool thing about them is they really help keep down the mosquito population which can carry west nile disease. I wouldn't recommend getting all chummy with a bat (unless you know what your fully doing) but honestly they really aren't much to fear about them. If you want to see a really cute bat look up the fox bat, they're fruit bat's and are super adorable. I how to someday be able to interact with one of them
The Prion thing is really the most terrifying to me. It's relatively easy to infect another individual, it lasts forever on surfaces, with few ways to destroy it, and it takes years to show symptom while still being infectious. It would be a disastrous pandemic, if a disease like that broke into the human population and remained as contagious.
Humans do have a couple of Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, and kuru. Every one of them is pure undiluted nightmare fuel, though I personally think fatal familial insomnia is the worst. One day, you suddenly become completely incapable of sleeping. Not even anesthesia or drugs will knock you out. You then proceed to slowly go insane over the course of a few months until you finally die from sheer exhaustion.
@@flowerfaerie8931 There was another comment explaining Kuru, but with the simple description of fatal familial insomnia, it kind of sounds like what happens in "Russian Sleep Experiment". (Probably not the first time it's said or thought of in context of this video, but reality is stranger than fiction).
@@nameynamd9212 It’s not unlike that. Patients don’t really become violent or erratic, but they do suffer something like a very rapid form of Alzheimer’s.
An interesting fact that you left out about the human prion disease: It is also known as Kuru, and is mostly passed from people eating their dead in Papa New Guinea. Also, the reason that Mad Cow Disease spread the way it did to other cows was because the farmers were feeding the dead diseased cows to their healthy cows, not understanding how prions worked.
Both with Kuru and Mad cow disease they where eating or fed the brain with had the prions and led to the spread of the disease. Mad cow disease mainly happened in UK, it's absolutely disgusting what they fed to their animals. But even worse some of this nasty, cheap cow mest material (I wouldn't exactly call it meqt as it was a mix of bones, intestines, meat, diseased brain) where made into sausages that was fed to children on school lunches so some children got this disease which is called Creutzfeldt Jacobs disease in humans. You can spontainiously get CJD too.
Kuru is actually a completely different prion than the one that causes CJD, so technically there are actually 2 human prion diseases. That being said, kuru is insanely rare, to the point where it may actually not exist anymore. The reason is because the only way to get kuru is to eat infected human brain tissue. Whereas CJD has both familial and iatrogenic forms, meaning you can either inherit it or become infected with it externally.
As with survival of the fittest. The rabies strand which randomly caused hydrophobic was the most likely to be passed on. It's just amazing that such an outcome is even possible.
Hugo died in 1980, not 2022. He did die from brain aneurysm after ramming his head against the tank walls for *years*. He was only 15. So glad you brought him up, his story is one of the many tragic ones in killer whale captivity. You just got his year of death wrong
May have been a mistake, but I did think that was strange that he listed Hugo's death from last year. Beyond the head bashing though Orca (and other cetaceans) display a wide variety of zoochosis behavior in every location that has one captive. For some animals, no zoo will ever be enough.
Worth noting that there actually IS a prion disease that's famous in humans: Kuru. Comes about thanks to cannibalism, and is pretty horrifying in its own right. Disease itself lasts 12 months, and starts with headaches and joint issues in legs, then moves onto lack of balance when moving and walking, shaking, and difficulty speaking. After that the shaking gets worse, the person stops being able to walk on their own, and starts to develop mental issues such as depression and spontaneous, uncontrolled laughter. Finally, it moves onto a complete inability to even sit up without help, difficulty swallowing, incontenance, inability to speak, become unresponsive while still conscious, and can develop and ulcerated wounds, before finally passing on, usually between 3 months to two years after reaching that last stage thanks either to the disease itself, or complications from it.
Kuru originates from eating a person who had Creutzfeldt Jakob disease - a member of the community developed it and died due to funerary customs the misfolded prions spread via canablism
Got attached by an abandoned cat while at work. Rabies was one of the first tings they checked for/asked about. Tip: Get a butterfly needle if you need to get blood drawn for rabies. They take a fair bit out of you lol
You did a very good job on this video. My son when four years old was bit by a cat yet the local hospital did not want to give him the series of rabies shots. Thankfully, the WI State Veterinarian spoke with me and gave me the courage to go back and demand my boy be fully treated
That could have ended badly , Glad you stood your ground,I got a rabies vaccine 2 years Ago and I want it again because it still haunts me how scary rabies is
that's because the shots themselves are very physically taxing and not usually given to children. not an excuse for what happened, but a reason. when I was a wildlife worker, we were not allowed to treat raccoons with anyone under 18 in our household for this reason. still, props for looking out for your little man and I hope he's doing well
When I was a kid, I asked my dad what was the scariest movie for him, and he said "The Shining". I thought: "Well, it's good, but it's not that scary". "It is scarier than any movie about monsters or zombies, because unlike those, a person going crazy and becoming a murderer is a horror we have to live with in real life". Man, was he right.
I've always said that if a zombie apocalypse really did happen and society broke down, I'd be _way_ more scared of the other, desperate humans than the zombies. At least you know what the zombies will do.
As an animal lover, they also terrify me. Seeing a deer do some of the things described by people who have witnessed CWD would probably make me simultaneously sympathetic and probably shit my pants.
I work with children for an after school program and today one said “I’ve got rabies and I’m gonna bite you”. I then sat her down to explain to her how dangerous rabies is. She then cried and apologized to her friend.
I get the kid was most likely joking and trying to act funny, but yeah thank you for educating them regardless. As it is indeed a dangerous virus that needs to taken seriously considering how many animals and humans it has and will infect unless we don't find a way to put extinction to it.
My cat was an animal I rescued from outdoors. She had a TERRIBLE case of mange where most her fur was gone and she could barely move. Keep in mind I am horribly allergic to cats but after we got her treated and they told us it would be extremely unlikely she'd be adopted since she's at least 7yrs old which meant the treatment we were giving her would probably mean nothing in the end. So I now get prescription allergy meds and we've got a cat who is the queen of our castle. But it especially makes me happy to know I could make a difference in at least one animal's life.
Which is just ridiculous. Do you understand the hundreds of billions of animals that come to a horrible end every hour? If you had money to spare for charity, you should have spent it on humans in need.
@nelus7276 Long-term Charity represents the failure from the organization that is responsible for these things, using Bandage alone to fix infected deep pellets wound is not gonna help much.
Charity is a con, feed a man a meal and he has food for a day, teach him a trade and you've fed him for life. Not once has charity EVER lifted anyone out of poverty, it becomes a crutch for ppl and then companies use it as a tax write off and give the stuff to the poor to get rid of the stock. Everything from tents and sleeping bags to food that would expire the next day.
@@nelus7276 I still don't get what the new wave of trolls is accomplishing. Take stupidest take on the face of the entire planet and then...? Are you getting money from making this post? Does being an idiot and a villain fill you with some satisfaction? Please enlighten me, I've seen so many of your species crawling around this website and it baffles me every time. At least the spam and giveaway scam trolls use automation so they're not actually eating up their time on phishing.
While I worked in corrections, I had to take an inmate to the hospital for scabies. He was an old man, about 72 if I remember correctly, and he already had a compromised immune system. It was so bad he was unresponsive. His flesh had the texture of Kellogg's corn flakes. His whole body was just crust and he would leave a trail of broken off pieces of himself everywhere he was. It was unbelievable. The areas of his body that were supposed to have some flexibility, like his fingers, eyebrows, elbows, etc, had deep red fissures where the skin would typically bend and he was leaking fluids from the cracks. The doctors/nurses took his temperature at the hospital and I'll never forget it, his temperature was 88 degrees. He died about 10 hours after leaving the prison. It was without a doubt the most upsetting thing I have ever witnessed.
That’s an interesting take on Zoochosis and our own species, I often find myself restless and even consumed with intrusive thoughts when I’m stuck in a work environment yet when I’m out exploring, climbing and hiking around, none of those issues are no longer prevalent. I believe firmly that we do not thrive in these artificial environments, which is what causes subsequent mental illnesses
We evolved to be in hills, plains, woods and wherever else, but definitely not concrete jungles. The more densely packed and large a city is, the more you see modern psychological issues. In something like villages, it's seen less often.
Part of it is also the fact it correlates to that as ease of meeting biological needs increases, the more energy we have that is directed towards meeting psychological needs. Psychological needs like *life satisfaction, social connections, and self enrichment.* Things that are becoming *MORE* difficult to satisfy in increasingly capitalistic societies. The USA has consistently higher rates of mental illness, and some of the lowest rates of life satisfaction. For a supposed "First World Country," we have disproportionately low accessibility for life needs, despite disproportionately high work hours. It's actually been shown in several studies that spending time with nature *doesn't* improve symptoms of mental health issues _unless_ you are part of certain demographics. With said demographics being White, but most importantly *middle class or above.* Meaning that unless your needs are met, time with nature isn't going to help you. So we have Zoochosis, except worse because there's no amount of nature enrichment that will help when you're aware that you are still in the cage.
Rabies has always terrified me, partly because I watched the movie 'Old Yeller' as a child. I'm so thankful to live in a country that doesn't have rabies.
@HellBlazerMNE07 when I'm nice I learn more from people. I can say I have friends from all over the world who have taught me unique and fascinating things.
When I was 17 and hanging out with my younger friend we were riding bikes on the trail behind her housing development. It was the middle of the day when we stopped for water and all of a sudden a raccoon started towards us, all friendly like. My friend wanted to pet it but I told her to bike home as fast as possible while I called animal control. I knew that critter wasn't home anymore. As she biked away the raccoon started chasing her, only stopping when I sneezed and it started towards me. I was already on the phone with animal control and started booking it outta there. It was scary. It was snarling and snapping and I didn't see foam but it's eyes were SO green. It shied away when I squirted my water bottle at it. So. Prolly a rabid raccoon.
The detail about green eyes actually changes the diagnosis! The raccoon you saw wasn't suffering from rabies, but rather canine distemper. A raccoon infected with distemper behaves very similarly to one with rabies -- unusual tameness that gives way to aggression with very little warning. In the late stages of infection, mineral deposits build up in the eyes, making them opaque and BRIGHT green. Fortunately for you, canine distemper is not zoonotic, so it couldn't have infected you. But it's no less terrible a way for a critter to go.
@@bearbearington9113 good lord! Even if it wasn't rabies, I cannot imagine being attacked by a crazy animal. You could survive that, but i'd prefer not having the trauma.
That seems unlikely. Werewolves are a really old concept going back to ancient Greece and Rome, but they were always people who turned into full wolves (usually through unexplained magic or because they got turned into wolves by Zeus/Jupiter), not the Hollywood wolf-man hybrids. It wasn't until the 1940s when movies about werewolves start popping up that you get wolf-man hybrids as the norm for werewolves. And that was almost certainly because throwing some hair on an actor's face and hands was significantly easier than having someone full on transform into an animal with 1940s movie technology. So while bears with mange might look like our modern idea of a werewolf, it's mostly just a coincidence. Without their fur and standing on their hind legs, bears can look remarkably like people with the notable exceptions of their heads and paws. Since those were the parts of the body seen in early movie werewolves, those were also the parts that changed the most. tldr; sorry. Probably not the cause of werewolf lore, they just coincidentally look like early movie werewolves.
@@vampiricqueen100 Sorry to be this blunt about it, but you're flat out wrong. We have depictions of werewolves from as far back as two millennia ago that portray them as various kinds of human-wolf hybrid creature. Yes, stories of werewolves being humans who change full into a wolf are also common, including some of the most famous ones like the story of King Lycaon of Arcadia, but the 'wolf-man hybrid' portrayal of werewolves is just as old, not something invented for the movies.
Rabies is even worse than you described because not only does it do everything it said but you’ll also experience memory loss and severe paranoia of everything just before you die. Walking corpse is an incredibly accurate statement, since for the last couple of days of you life, you won’t act like a person, or even an animal, you’ll act like a corpse.
"Turning his puke into infinite food glitch-" My man has a way of describing things but the imagination of it is unreal edit: 2.5K likes... ya'll are crazy!
I must say, I like how you always add more information just to raise awarness without promoting unnecesary fears. Though the Zoochosis hit pretty hard, both the actual disease and its implications.
Thank you sharing the statistic about how rare rabies transmission from bats is! I LOVE bats and donate to Bat Conservation International. A lot of bats are endangered and without them we will likely suffer catastrophic human loss. They are pollinators as well as prolific mosquito killers.
And some bats are super-snuggly! Helping an October animal education program, I was able to hold the friendliest flying fox they had. She decided the sun was too bright, so she stuck her head under the collar of my shirt. And went right back to sleep. The vampire bat was probably the second-cutest, scampering across the little table-stage to get his blood-treats. I absolutely adore bats!
Can say I was definitely suffering from a minor case of Zoochosis during my time going to school out in LA. I grew in a rural forested environment and once the novelty of the city wore off it began to drain on me and make me very depressed the lack of greenery and the over abundance of people it started fucking with my mind very badly to the point I actually thought about killing myself several times as it felt like I was imprisoned by that environment some days. I eventually used the pandemic as an excuse to come home and my mental health shot up like a rocket once I was able to touch some grass. People forget sometimes we're animals ourselves and sometimes we just don't do well in new environments long term
Our brains have a natural attraction towards water and green open spaces. Without them we get sort of sad without even realizing. It's why offices, shops and public buildings try to add blue and green these days. I live in a more rural city which is not surrounded by forests but does have a lot of tree's and fields. I definitely notice similar effects when in bigger cities where I just feel more tired and less unique. I get into simple routines more and just wait for the day to be over.
Yeah I feel like the rise in the mental health crisis is also probably (at least partially) caused by zoochosis. The repeating, mundane, and isolated environment gets to people. Even though we’re more connected than ever, we’re more lonely
Zoochosis, imo is the scariest "disease" listed in the video (besides prions, the fact not even fire or harsh acids can kill them is terrifying to me)... Humans are def outta touch with how we should be living. My apt has a small strip of scraggly "forest" in the back, and there's lots of development going on nearby. My roommate & I love our little forest patch so much, we feed the invasive sparrows (wishing we knew how to attract native species, which we see very few of), we enjoy watching the squirrels, and every now and then a hawk or owl will stop by... Basically, if the developers chop down our forest patch we're moving immediately.
Sure this place has parks and things, but it’s still a small city. Being close to so many other people is exhausting, and would much rather be in a smaller town again. Been here for over a decade, and I still don’t like it
Im glad you actually showed multiple examples of animals with rabies. Its scary how alot of people don't know the signs of rabies and try to approach the animals.
You cannot ID rabies just from behavior. I know the deer in the parking lot came up as positive according to original uploader, followed up with health department after it was beheaded. Obviously you should not approach such an animal. But it is annoying to see people randomly shoot an animal since they think any abnormal behavior = rabid.
@@pickles3128you are exactly right, any animal exhibiting strange or abnormal behavior should NOT be approached, but really that just goes for wild animals and unfamiliar animals (strays) in general. Best thing to do is inform local police of the animal or animal control, who yes will more n likely shoot it cause it's behavior is erratic and therefore it could pose a threat and it's brain matter needs to be tested. Better safe than sorry is how the situation would be looked at. With that being said, when a wild animal or stray is running in circles repeatedly, experiencing seizures, has excessive drooling, is abnormally aggressive, or acts like it has no fear towards humans...it's more n likely rabid. One of the main ways of concluding the animal could have the virus is by taking note of how it is behaving.
Zoocosis definitely sounds like things humans do under abuse and/or imprisonment with stress. I self injured under abuse and when I became suicidal and was hospitalized I also did a lot of pacing because we were trapped in a relatively small high stress space with no outdoors and less to do.
My best friend is a mortician, and a former colleague of his was diagnosed with CJD. He likely caught it from a cadaver some time in his over 30 year career. My friend called me the night he was admitted to the hospital. His colleague was delirious, and had "raged out" on his family. My friend and I hung out the third day, and he was in shock, they were only just becoming aware of what was happening; his colleague entered into a coma that night. He died day 6. My friend has two major worries now when handling bodies: fentanyl contamination, and that someday, years down the line, he might go from respected professional in his field, to experiencing all the stages of Alzheimer's in a week.
Fentanyl contamination isn't a real thing, it was implied to be after some cops likely got panic attacks after touching some thinking it could hurt them. But yeah, there's 0% chance of being harmed by the body of a fentanyl user. However, CJD can absolutely be transmitted from dead bodies. Surgeons have refused to do brain surgery on patients who have it for fear of catching it themselves after it happened exactly that way to one surgeon
The zoochosis segment brought the film "Blackfish" to mind. People don't understand just how much space larger animals need. Especially marine animals. And the CWD bit sounds like a good inspiration for a zombie film with a new twist. No need for a rapid spread that causes an apocalypse. Just something slow-acting, slow-spreading, but very dangerous because no one knows what it really is or where it's coming from, and even once everyone finds out, it doesn't get any better because it's so difficult to control.
Reminded me of one dolphin documentary in my high school marine biology class called _The Cove_ detailing the capture and brutal slaughter of dolphins and the increase of mercury poisoning from dolphin meat and there was one segment with Ric O'Barry (He was this dolphin trainer-turned-activist in the '60's who helped capture and train five dolphins for this TV show _Flipper,_ from what little I understand about that show is it's just _Lassie_ but swap out the dog for a dolphin) talking about how one dolphin named Kathy _unalived herself_ in his arms by closing her blowhole after she was stored in some pool after the show ended as if she were nothing more than a prop. When Ric found her she was black from sunburn because the pool she was in was fairly shallow and her dorsal fin was flopping like the orcas at _SeaWorld._ Let me tell you, it takes _a lot_ to get me to feel sorry for the _Cosby/Dahmers_ of the ocean known as dolphins, and I'll say _that documentary was a lot._
Yeah there are some animals like many rodents and reef fish that are naturally adapted for small spaces and dont need or even want tons of space, but others like whales and dolphins need _tons_ of space. Orcas not only are adapted to vast tracts of ocean but they're also _fucking huge_ so the little pools they get at places like Sea World are barely a fraction what they need.
@@manofmoths2092 i wish they'd make more apocalypse movies like that. In movies the end always happens in like a week but even the worst real life disasters often take months or years to really grow out of hand. Covid is one of the best examples of a hyper virulent plague and it still took over a year to get to that point and that was with multiple major world governments resisting efforts to fight the plague at first. Looking at most of the truly low points of humanity like global wars (Napoleon, WW1, WW2, Cold War), famines (Holodomr, Great Leap Forward), or societal collapses (Great Depression) or other plagues (Black Death, Spanish Flu) took years to grow even if you dont count a lot of the preceding events. A slow apocalypse is more realistic and if anything more terrifying since it's less like a fast, relatively merciful gunshot and more like gangrene as you watch the world slowly die and rot while it struggles to survive.
CWD doesn’t just stay active in soil for a few years, it can last for at least 14+ years. In my state which is a big hunting state game and fish recommends that you send samples from your deer/elk to be tested so they can track the levels and locations in the state and see how many animals have it. It’s so rampant it’s terrifying.
A former friend worked as a social worker and got infected with scabies. She then went ahead and infected half our friend group because she had the bad habit of being more social than smart. She jokes about how its not that bad, but I got so uncomfortable around her. Bugs under the skin being "not that bad"? The sh*t causing the problems being not that bad? 🤢
I thought you said rabies for a moment and honestly got very very concerned for a moment. One of the commenters here said the vaccine is about 18 shots to the stomach
After hearing about how Rabies works, It's honestly so terrifying and how lucky my 2 friends lived. One of my friends quickly got treated while the other, after being bitten, calmly continued school and got treated after school. They're luckily both still alive right now.
I was talking once with my cousin that is vet and he said that when it comes to humans, rabies can be pure rng. Sometimes you will need to go to hospital asap and get treated while other time you will live for years before first symptoms will even show and discover that you had rabies. And of course the moment first symptoms start showing you better start writing down your last will and testament because chance of you surviving this is extremly low.
@@kadarak1 Virtually 0%. There have been like 15 people who have survived rabies after symptoms have manifested in the history of humanity, and rabies takes out about 59,000 people annually. If we assume that 15 people survived every year instead of ever, that would be a survival rate of about 0.025%. If something bites you, get vaccinated. RNGesus is not on your side. Edit: grammar/punctuation
Your friend who isn’t treated most likely still has rabies. There is a long latency period between first getting attacked and getting symptoms. Take him/her to the hospital because when symptoms start appearing, it’s already too late.
My grandmother was diagnosed with sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob's Disease (CJD) and passed away about 6 months after symptoms started. It started with her losing her balance occasionally, and rapidly escalated to needing a cane, a walker, a wheelchair, and finally to the point of paralysis and being unable to speak or move, but still able to perceive her surroundings.. it was like she was trapped in her own body like a prison, no way to talk, move, or express herself other than blinking or moving her eyes.
@@tomguglielmo9805in this case it seemed like a rapid onset of it, yeah - seemed to target her mobility more than her cognitive ability though - she was still answering questions and visibly aware up until she'll passed
The sheer mood whiplash from seeing some of the most horrific diseases that an animal can carry to a tale of how Manu Ginobili became HOF material for smacking a bat was definitely something else
It was a good whip-lash though… Well, maybe not for the bat. But he probably needed something because of all of the depressing stuff he had to look up. I can only imagine what kind of stuff he left out of the video that he saw.
Correction on 1:22 : The legend of the Chupacabra started in Puerto Rico in 1995. It became notorious on the island and more sighting popped up across the island, jumping to Mexico and then later the lower states in the USA. The idea of the Chupacabra being a coyote or wild dog with mange was brought forth in the late 2000s. Why am I correcting this? Because we don’t have coyotes on the island. We do have dogs that run wild, but the idea of it being a mangy coyote is from the late 2000s
Man read Stephen King's Cujo, it explains rabies from the dogs point of view and it literally had me in tears.. like Cujo didn't understand the change happening and it made me into one of those "don't get a pet if you can't get it a rabies shot every year" person
I heard a story on NPR recently that antivaxers are no longer getting their dogs vaccinated soooooo yeah, there's gonna be a lot of rabies in the decades to come.
Another prion disease, though extremely rare (last I heard only 50 cases world wide) is fatal familial insomnia - you eventually lose the ability to sleep and die within a matter of months. I really hope they can find cures or treatments for these diseases for animals and people 😢
4:40-4:54 That makes WAY too much sense, like a scary amount of sense. Especially with how people can often times insist on doing all kinds of crap both to themselves and others over and over, and expecting a different result.
10:28 Fun fact regarding prion diseases: they have been transmitted to humans from infected meat before. vCJD is a variant of the spontaneous Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease that arose from British farmers feeding their cows infected meat on a scale so large that once people started dying from eating said meat, it caused an entire national (and slightly international, considering all the British beef import bans that went up) crisis.
When I was a preschooler we lived on a quiet side street and often played in the street. One hot summer afternoon an unfamiliar dog staggered up the middle of the street, glassy-eyed and drooling. The older kids yelled and ran, but I was mesmerized. Mom ran outside screaming, scooped my brother and me up at the same time and ran inside. The neighbor's husband came home from work and shot it, and the DEC agent took it for testing. There was a rabies outbreak that summer, and even though the law requires vaccinating all of your dogs and cats, people sometimes got lax with it.
To anyone out there who got thourally depressed after watching this video, I am not a doctor, but just keep holding on to the fact that, out there, there are still good people working day and night to make sure we and the rest of the animal kingdom are safe out there from diseases like this. Have a good day, and stay safe out in this big, unexplainable world.
I live in an area with CWD and let me tell you, most people don't take that shit seriously enough. A deer can literally do a drive-by piss on your vegetable garden and suddenly those tomatoes are little prion bombs.
Correction: Hugo died in 1980, not 2022. It was believed he developed depression after spending two years alone in a tiny pool while his new tank was under construction. Apparently after that, he completely fell apart mentally
Reason number 6000 why Orcas shouldn’t be held in captivity.
Can we get a part 2?
That's Horrible...
Also don't let anybody forget my girl Lolita who was Hugo's tankmate and went to live another three decades completely alone in the tiny pool. Only to be given a pass for reintroduction to the wild when she was too sick to transport. SIP girl, the news of her death are still too fresh for me.
That's rough
I remember researching rabies for a school project, and what freaked me out the most wasn't the hydrophobia alone, but that combined with dehydration. You know you will die without water and you need it, but can't bring yourself to drink any. It's maddening.
Just too weird to understand. Terrifying.
Happy Halloween 😳💀👻
Rabes go brrrrrrr.
What do the doctors do for you? Do they sedate you or something, or do they just keep you alive until you die? There are these clips of these people foaming at the mouth in the hospital and unable to drink, but if it was me I wish they'd just kill me if I'm at that point
@@adrammelechthewroth6511best joke
The rabies epidemic in India actually began increasing at an alarming rate when humans decided vultures were a pest and began poisoning them. Vultures like many birds don’t get rabies and vultures being the clean up crew actually limit the spread of rabies by lessening the amount of animal carcasses lying around for stray dogs to scavenge. We need vultures.
Humans have always been fucking stupid. Like, dangerous stupid, not haha stupid.
I'm glad you mentioned that. It wasn't until recently, when I was watching a safari doc, that I learned that and it changed my opinion of vultures forever.
@@I_Palaver and the more hosts a virus has to infect, the more chances it has of mutating…
Killed 1 vulture that was stalking my chickens, it was acting weird and limping at them. Creepy.
I’m surprised they don’t try and mass vaccinate the stray dogs. I know it would be hard, but at least it may save some people.
It’s actually Terrifying that so many animals are affected by these horrible diseases where the point they are a lost cause, it is depressing especially The Rabies.
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I think only two humans have survived (naturally) the Rabies so far (haven't refreshed my knowledge on this dreaded thing in a while now).
If you go in the wild often, see animals or live near nature, best get the shot, because that might save your life. Also, don't get near animals that come to you... obsessively. In general, try to avoid touching animals as a rule. The chances of them having Rabies are small, but they are not 0.
This is one disease everyone should be aware of, AND in the off-chance you see a Rabies infected animals, call local animal control, because that sh!t spreads like a yeast infection once it gets into populated areas. You might escape it, but the kid next door might not.
@@aserta thanks for the advice!, and especially stay away from Raccoons, they are ESPECIALLY known to carry rabies, never trust a wild Animal. Because you don’t know what you got carrying on you…
Most recent knowledge I have is that only one Person has survived rabies untreated with severe mental issues, and a handful have survived with intense medical treatment and brain damage.
Remember kids if you're bitten by ANY stray or wild animal, regardless of whether or not it's foaming at the mouth, you seek immediate medical attention! If they catch rabies early on, it's much easier to treat.
If they have a pet that runs outside by itself, they should get it vaccinated too. That way it's likely to not get anything if bit.
If bitten by a stray immediately get the vaccine to survive. If not you are done
Fwiw, some ppl don't know they've been bit. But any risky wild animal, prob rabies shot yeah
Impossible to treat, if you wait. I don't remember the time period, but after a certain point, it's a death sentence.
@@abigailblackstock4928 I think it's a month.
My best friend of 40+ years had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It was cruel & very hard to watch knowing that once diagnosed there was nothing anyone could do. She went from an exceptionally intelligent woman to someone with symptoms not unlike advanced dementia along with chronic weight loss within a few weeks of being hospitalized. And it was only a matter of days after diagnosis that she passed. It doesn't show on scans until it's too late.
Oh no, it's worse than that, sadly. It's not that CJD's not showing on scans until it's too late--it's just that having the disease at all is fatal. There is no cure and no effective treatment. Cancer *may* be a death sentence, but CJD *is* one. It's worse than rabies, where if you treat it BEFORE symptoms show the person will live. With CJD, if you have it, you cannot be helped at any point in time. All they can do is make you more comfortable. That's why it's so terrifying.
@@WynneL I agree. I should have clarified my comment by saying that once it shows on a scan it's too late for that person to be able to get their affairs in order since the symptoms (the degradation of the ability to mentally function) usually escalate so fast. By the time the doctors had identified CJD in my friend & we all understood that there was no cure or treatment, she had no time or the mental capacity to make sure we knew what she wanted for her son, who was still in his teens, or what she wanted for her funeral. She had no idea what was happening to her. It was heartbreaking & even now, 7 months later it still chokes me up. I miss her so much but I am glad that I had her in my life even if that time was far too short.
@@jturtle5318 It is a heartbreaking disease, one I had never heard of until my friend was diagnosed.
I am so sorry for your loss, that is horrific.
@@CoreKatalyst Thank you for your kind thoughts. The one good thing to come out of it is knowing now what the symptoms look like. Hopefully, I'll never see them in someone else again but, if I do at least I can be prepared & help prepare others.
Had to study zoochosis as part of my college course it was heartbreaking
Also seen zoochosis in a bear and two elephants (the elephants were rescues from circus and loggers one was branded the other had a damaged spine) they just stood there swaying
Thankfully the zoo has now sent them to a sanctuary where they'll have more space and be around other elephants
Zoocosis is a reason why lot of the good zoos give their animals toys. 🥺
Zoochosis is awful... saw a bear with it in Malaysia, near Kuala Lumpur. There was a note near its enclosure asking people to not gawk, or try to get its attention, and that they were caring for it but guests needed to minimise its stress. One could ask "Why wasn't the bear removed from viewing?", and it's possible that they either didn't have a suitably large environment for them to recover long-term, or that they feared moving it might worsen the situation. I think about that bear sometimes, pacing left and right so much it made a path in the dirt for itself...
i saw it in a bear at the san diego zoo, had no idea til now what it was but i immediately knew something was wrong
@@Tokuijin Every good zoo gives animals toys.
Once at a zoo there was a tiger just growling to itself and pacing
Zoochosis is one of the most terrifying to me. I've listened to testimony from prisoners kept in solitary confinement, children and adults. Taking their stories at face value, the hallucinations they can experience are severe. Like some Alice in Wonderland shit. In highly intelligent and social animals, I have no doubt the experience is just as severe and traumatic.
For a frame of reference one of the most horrifying forms of torture used in Iran is "white room treatment" where you're locked in a plain white room in solitary confinement for long stretches of time, which isnt much better than what some zoo animals are put through. Some people put through it have said they preferred beatings. There's been cases where temperamental or difficult horses were given a partner in their stable or even just a goat and seen a world of change afterwards, makes you wonder if its just loneliness and having another ungulate to keep them company is why their mood improves. Some animals are hardwired to be in groups and it can seriously screw them up being alone, some animals like dogs and cats can be fine without another of their kind around but that's just because they've evolved to see their human as another cat/dog
Please bear in mind: The definition of zoochosis is _stereotypies in _*_non-human_*_ animals._ Meaning humans don't get, "zoochosis," they get behavioral disorders, or dementia, or schizophrenia. Just like humans don't get "mange", they get "scabies," even though it's caused by the same thing. The term is different if it occurs in humans.
I recently came back from Mule Deer hunting season. This year was the first time I ever witnessed a deer with Chronic Wasting Disease. I didn't know what to do so I contacted the Fish and Wildlife department and they told me to shoot it and a W&F Officer would would come out to collect it. It was actually quite sad.
@John_Weiss Thank you for clarifying that. We don't need to give people another reason to compare people with mental illness or brain disorders to animals.
@@John_Weiss You mean psychosis?
I am a zoologist who has specialized in zoonotic infections diseases for the last 25 years. I am a wildlife biologist, histologist & microbiologist. I have worked with all these diseases you have mentioned. I tell you what; I am impressed. I am very impressed with your videos and this one. I've watched them through the years and my friend you are on point while including layers of entertainment. I wish you the best & keep at it.
So is a Virus 'Alive' or not!?
So is a Virus alive, or not? Lol
As a biology student, describing prion diseases as "a cellular level cheese touch" is the best thing I've ever heard. I will be using this as my new analogy for studying.
Yeah, it's a pretty accurate analogy tbh. Wish I'd thought of that while in undergrad lol
wouldn't it be more like molecular level since it's a protein and not a cell?
I don’t get it. Cheese touch.
@@dirtyweapons3459 I want to say the "cheese touch" is referencing "Diary of a Wimpy Kid." The Cheese Touch is apparently a game where whoever is forced to touch or eat some moldy Swiss cheese is a social outcast until they get someone else to also have contact with the cheese. I have not actually read the book(s) or seen the movie, so I don't really know the nuances of how the Cheese Touch is enforced. In the movie it sounds like any physical contact with the infected individual transmits the Cheese Touch, even though it does not clarify how the bullies are able to facilitate contact with the cheese without touching the cheese or affected individual themselves.
I hope you use your education to look for some way to fight these terrifying proteins. At least rabies is a virus, it's sorta-like alive, I can understand that. Prions are like an evil cosmic mistake, something even the most twisted human being couldn't have thought up.
"Diseases can have animals permanently paralleled to the ground".
I've said it before, I'll say it again : this guy's success is not only due to his expertise on unconventional animal knowledge...it's ALSO the fact that he's a very good comedic writer!
He's a genius writer, very talented, I'm often left in awe of his abilities with words.
A wordsmith.
I will complain that he keeps using down bad as a term for them going through something highly physically detrimental when he knows that's not what down bad means. Quite the opposite actually, down bad expresses a certain vitality to it. It is in no way at all applicable to death.
Yep.
Truth. Not just a good comic writer but he also has good comic timing.
Worth mentioning: The animal is still contagious before it starts foaming at the mouth. All too many people think that if it’s not foaming at the mouth and just coming up to you, it’s not contagious. If you see an animal displaying weird behaviour, DONT GO TO IT. Even if it looks like it is in distress, DO NOT. It’s not worth YOUR life and that of everyone else you might accidentally get sick. Don’t do it.
So true the only way to truly help an animal in distress is to call the authorities so both you and the animal are safe
Yes, and don't put the animal out of its misery either. Even if you shoot it from a distance, you WILL spread the disease into the surrounding area. All it takes is a drop of saliva on the ground.
In conclusion: don’t mess with wild animals, EVER
Just yesterday, I saw a video where a woman showed herself finding a mouse burrowed into the dirt in her potted plant, so she grabbed it with her hand to remove it, and it bit her. Instead of putting it outside,she made it a home for him in their house. The comment section was SCREAMING st her to go to a doctor immediately, but apparently she didn't think it was necessary. I should've subbed to find out in 3 weeks if she got rabies, or not!
And if you get bit, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, go to the hospital and get a rabies vaccine. It takes quite a long time to reach the brain, and if you get vaccinated before it reaches the brain, your body will produce antibodies and eradicate the virus, and you will likely be okay. But if it reaches the brain, it is too late, and you will be an incredibly rare edge case if you can be treated and survive.
Interesting note, in the second Jurassic Park book, written by Michael Crichton, all the dinosaurs are doomed to die because they pick up an prions infection due to them being fed a bad batch of sheep extract. Long story short Ingen try to eradicate it and thought they did but it turns out that the prion disease (known as DX in the novel) exists in dinosaur feces which the small scavengers (the compys) eat, then they spread it to carcasses which in turn lead to all the raptors becoming infected and the raptors hunt live prey, not always successfully but one bit is enough to spread the disease and as a result, bit by bit the infect spreads throughout the whole island again and upon leaving the human characters realise that pretty much everything on the island is doomed to die. I'd seriously recommend reading the books.
I haven't read The Lost World in years, but wasn't the lysine contingency still a thing or did Crichton ignore that for plot reasons?
@ncapone87 Crichton ignored it via the same reason the films did, eg the animals eat lysine rich plants (this is hinted at during the end of the first book which implies that either compys or raptors have got off the island and are suspiciously nibbling at lysine rich plants. Granted at the end of the lost world book we're left with the conclusion that ever dinosaur on site b is doomed to die. Hence Crichton's version of Jurassic Park ends there.
@@greenveilgaming1149 I do now remember that bit at the end of the first book. I should reread them. I haven't read Lost World in 24 years but I reread JP a couple years ago. I own both but haven't gotten to LW yet
The books are so good.
One of my ancestors got rabies. He was a blacksmith and caught it by killing a rabid dog with his hammer that was trying to attack a group of kids (he was my grandfathers grandfather). They had to just tie him to a bed and wait for him to die. From the way my grandpa described, what happened to him was TERRIFYING.
Rip. Sacrificed his life to save those kids from such fate
From what I have studied humans with rabies are just as violent as animals with rabies, only difference is (to my knowledge) humans can't spread it to other humans? (Not sure about that though)
@@Salem-AngelHumans aren't great biters. Only a small percentage of rabies cases get aggressive thankfully.
@@emcaco Well even then, we are capable of literally ripping other people's faces off in the correct circumstances. We might not be as adapted to our chompers for combat, but they can still very much so be used. :(
@@Salem-Angelyes, true. we are capable of breaking skin with our teeth iirc
My guy you can't just drop a "Maybe all of Humanity is suffering from Zoochosis" out of nowhere and get me thinking about my life
I now can't stop think about it
I really don't buy that theory. yes, humanity at large is quite miserable right now, but I'm thinking that has more to do with capitalism and climate change than anything inherent to civilization
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If anything, it teaches us that humans NEED more worldly stimulation. Humanity has only grown more isolated as technology and other conveniences become available, and while these ARE amazing, we can’t let ourselves become so consumed into our own little worlds that we forget to give our minds and bodies the stimulation they need. We were originally a nomadic species, we went from place to place, and we trained our bodies as well as our minds with new experiences. We still need that in some capacity.
Rabies is also theorized to be the reason humans have an "uncanny valley"! Instinctively avoiding humans that looked slightly off or behaved weirdly was a good way to avoid getting rabies before logic or weapons existed.
I'm pretty sure uncanny valley thing works against every disease, not just rabies
It’s creepy even with animals. It’s like seeing something unspeakably malevolent take the image of something that used to be a dog, fox or wolf. A human would be bloodcurdling
I think the uncanny valley exists so that we had instincts against other 'human' species when wr were all sharing the world long ago
@@ianbrooks1769 not an expert or anything but i can't see how that would work evolutionarily?
like if we evolved to experience uncanny valley in response to other kinds of early humans, it would imply that those who didn't experience the uncanny feeling were killed before producing offspring, but the opposite is true right? a lot of modern humans have neanderthal dna
@@ianbrooks1769 I don't think that's the case, given all the homo sapiens and neanderthal crossbreeding.
The idea of a basketball player smacking a bat out of the air and proceeding to win their game is great
There was a guy at my high school who got bitten by a monkey with rabies while he was on vacation. Luckily they knew what it was right away and he got treated immediately, but he was still gone for months in recovery. Everyone was so excited when he came back to school, healthy and normal.
My cousin’s dog my arm and drew blood when I was at her house in MI. *Two weeks later* after I’m back home in A, she calls and says “Oh btw Odie didn’t get his rabies booster this year.” I could have gotten it by then!”
@@nhmooytis7058 You have a seizure?
@@helloolllom nope.
I could be wrong, but I think I've heard that rabies is only transmissible in the last stage, if the dog wasn't dead from the disease in 10 days it wouldn't have had the right path to infect you.
You know it's scary when most of the school wishes you well
I remember reading an article about Jeanna Giese, doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with her then her parents remembered a couple months back she was bitten by a bat in church.......when the doctor heard that the blood drained from his face, he knew what was wrong now and he assumed that she was doomed as there was nothing that he could do.
Hey Jabman!
Her story is amazing. The doctors basically just induced her into a coma, gave her antivirals and let her body just fight it. She has made an almost complete recovery and now has kids of her own. Doctors have since tried that method of inducing coma and giving antivirals in 6 other similar rabies cases. All 6 patients died, which makes her story all the more miraculous.
CWD is genuinely terrifying. Not-Deer myths? Absolutely came from this: they turn into MONSTERS. They will run into things until they break their necks, and then keep running, broken legs, so much body horror. It's one of my most feared diseases.
Anytime I see a photo of a deer with cwd it looks like a zombie a walking corpse waiting to finally die, scary stuff
@interviolet6675 if the zombie apocalypse ever happens, it would probably be a version of rabies.
Not-Deer came from tumblr goofiness, not myths.
Yeah people mistake them for skin walkers smh
My dad got the human version known as sporadic CJD
Correction, animal diseases that SHOULD be turned into horror movies for awareness.
1 which is zombie land the disease is mad cow disease with no cure if you get it you will die how to get it by tanted meat with the prons
... Do you really think Hollywood would be accurate?
@@StonedtotheBones13 okay I just found out that there IS a movie about rabies-
I wanna watch it
You need to see Cujo.
I'm a dog groomer, and things like mange and rabies were things I learned about right away, and things I take seriously (along with other zoonotic things). But the saddest thing about all of this is that I've seen dogs with zoochosis and other neurotic behaviors. It's not limited to zoo animals. I've seen more dogs than I can count crying and repetitively walking back and forth in the kennel, back and forth, back and forth. It's different from a dog who wants to be around the humans and is sad to be in a kennel for a little bit. Those dogs will usually end up relaxing and quieting down after a while. The zoochosis ones will do that the entire time they're in a kennel, even sometimes on the grooming table, and they always cry or vocalize the entire time. It's very clear when you see they haven't been getting any enrichment and are cooped up all day every day. Sadly there's nothing you can do. Animal Control doesn't care unless it's visible signs of abuse (And even then, often times bringing the dog to the groomer is considered "getting help for the dog" even if the dog comes in once a year with his testicles matted to his leg... :/)
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As a dog person it really makes me sad hear stories like this. This is where PETA should put their efforts on but nothing 😢
Peta does nothing because peta is shit and actually is more harm than good.
I mean .. I'm not adding anything new by saying that people like that shouldn't even have a pet, but I feel like it runs slightly deeper than that. Whyyyyyy would you get a dog that requires the extra care of grooming, when you can't even be bothered with the basics of humane care in the first place??
@@Levacquepeople research their refrigerators more than their pets 😢
I feel everyone underrates just how much danger a disease can really be.
I find them interestin as hell and equally horrific.
Yep. Never take modern medicine for granted kids.
@@noradanielle971Unfortunately Anti-Vaxers exist
*Looks at all the people who didn't take covid seriously*
What makes you say that?
Indeed!!@@Chowder_T
@@Chowder_T*Looks back to the Black Death and The Spanish Flu*
My great-great(s)-grandmother actually died of rabies. She was a really cool lady apparently; very tall and physically strong, and she once hiked over 200 miles across Eastern Europe in the 1700s as a homeless unaccompanied young woman and lived to tell the tale. She died of a rabid bite after helping her village fend off a pack of wolves (she was in her 70s). Overall an incredible person!
she was a fucking bad ass‼️‼️‼️
I did an internship at an AZA accredited zoo. Preventing 'zoochosis' (stereotypic behavior) was incredibly important. At the very least you were required to hide food for the animal to 'hunt' and 'forage'...but everyone did need some kind of enrichment. For insects it might just be 'a new fruit they've never had' or 'moving rocks around' but there were some downright bizarre things pulled for larger animals. The cougars once got a rack of lamb attached to a zip line...otters had a playground. Our male hippo particularly liked huge thick plastic rain barrels...and elephants would be fed by either stuffing an entire half a hay bale into a giant rope net or by stuffing what looked like a giant plastic wiffle ball full of straw and hay...
Some people should not be trusted with handling wild animals. Some animals simply don't do well in captivity at all. But some animals don't have a home to go to anymore. And until that's fixed...I feel like we humans should take responsibility for that mess and do what we can.
Neat, I'd never heard of enrichment for insects before! Do you know if zoochosis has been observed in inverts? Still seems like a good idea, even if it's a "just in case" thing.
Decades ago, back when Zoo Atlanta still had bears, they'd freeze a big trout in a bucket of water and give the resulting fish-pop to the polar bear as a treat. Lots of fun to throw & chase around the swimming hole :)
@@SpaghettyLuvsU I’m not actually sure, I’ll have to look into that. We liked to try and encourage natural behaviors in captivity wherever possible, so anything that encourages anyone to ‘forage’ is pretty much an ideal choice.
…some exceptions…often we’d use food to give meds to geriatric animals and some of those guys got awfully cheeky about it. Like “look, kid, we all know you have to give me the banana chunks because I pretend not to know you put the joint stuff in there. So just hand it over.”
I did my placement year at a zoo.
One of the other students studied how Asian Short-claw Otters responded to auditory enrichment.
Turns out they really love music (especially classic); it was really effective at stopping 'begging' behaviour.
Fascinating. And sad. Thank you.
Agreed. I feel that way about domestic animals too. Some people shouldn't own them. Dogs and cats can develope similar issues. I work at an animal shelter and see it all the time. They eat their poop, eat things they shouldn't eat, and will groom till they are missing hair. They will also start rebounding of the walls of their run repetitively without stopping. We have a whole team dedicated to enrichment and all of our volunteers and staff do everything in our power to help them before they start declining. Problem is people will "trap" their animals in side with nothing to do and so they have to be creative. That's when things get bad and they end up coming to our shelter going down hill because someone got an animal and didn't put the work in.
Prion diseases are the true horror to me. Rabies and mange are detectable and treatable. Prion diseases can just pop up without warning at any time in your life and just end you. You might never even know if you were exposed or if your body just glitched. Today you're here, and tomorrow you're just not. They're the ultimate fear for me honestly.
And can also become a weapon of mass destruction given enough ambition is pu into it
.... you mean they can pop up like... everything else and end you without notice? wait... what exactly is there to fear from Prion diseases... theres only six variants, three preventable by washing surgical instruments when operating on eyes, not eating eachother and not eating rotten meat, the other three kill you before you know whats happening or shut your mind down in a way that you wont realize it anyway.... i dunno... walking across the street during traffic hours seems much scarier 😁
Hopefully there will be a cure one day in the (probably far) future.
True, i studied it for a while, i could even say it's the scariest type of disease
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They are uniformly fatal. These proteins cannot be destroyed, Casual is incorrect when he states heating them destroys them. It only temporarily disables them but once they cool, they can go back to infecting. They're basically indestructible. Only the death of the entire universe will put an end to prions, they'll exist long after all life in the universe is extinguished.
This is 100% the darkest and scariest video you've ever done. Normally, even your most serious videos have jokes and lighter moments, but not this one, it was pure, unfiltered terror
I'd argue the video of animals killing humans was pretty dark
But yea, especially with Zoochosis, this is a dark one
Life be like that sometimes.
@@quinnholloway5400 That ain't worse next to rabies
I mean the bat slap was kinda funny, but yeah other than that you're spot on
@@sykamoreva9803 > Slaps the bat backhand
> Continues Basketball
> Moves like nothing happened
> Walks in
> Leaves
Ah yes what a perfect video to get recommended at midnight
The only thing that separates rabies from a zombie plague is that rabies victims eventually stop moving. If you get bit by an animal, go to the hospital IMMEDIATELY. It's easy to cure in the earliest stage, but you're doomed the moment symptoms start to show. Never let it get to that point.
Yep, also because even if the animal didn't have rabies there's still a chance of tetanus infection.
oh yeah, in an interveiw a doctor stated a few modifications to rabies would make what is effectively a zombie outbreak
That, and how a group of rabid animals would presumably just turn on each other, rather than mobbing to all attack the same non-infected target(s) together.
My professor made a similar comparison. Equally as scary, the Black Death still has no cure. If you come into something infected with it, unless you get to a hospital within 24 hours, you're gone. If you get something in your system before then, you can prevent it from taking hold. But if the disease gets into your bloodstream or God forbid a lymph node, you are all capitals FUCKED.
Yup the vaccine is 100% effective
As a hunter, if I ever see a deer that seems even a little bit suspicious, it’s on sight. CWD was drilled into my head from the moment I was interested in hunting. At that point, it’s mercy for the affected deer and every deer in the surrounding area.
That's compassionate conservation right there.
It’s also one of those end of the world scenario kinda diseases
Like rabies
It’s contagiousness, lethality and ability to perform its function unstoppably is something that sounds like pure fiction
But truth is scarier than fiction
What where the signs that you saw?
@@aerickmon3350 i think a lot of horror and scifi scenarios reflect very real fears about this exact kind of thing
It's a HORRID disease. Make sure to advise Fish and Wildlife if you even SUSPECT you saw a deer with it.
Zoochosis....so sad. Years ago, at a zoo, I saw a polar bear in their enclosure. Mouth agape, pacing while swaying back and forth. The bear was most definitely not in the best shape. I was so confused and concerned at the time. If that bear has passed away, rip, it most definitely deserved a better life.
@Diredeer Daaamn ☹️
i kind of hate a lot of zoos for that. Some animals are basically like human inmates that are stuck in solitary. The animal has little enrichment or toys, often doesnt have others of its kind to keep it company, they often dont keep different species in the same enclosure even though some animals (like horses and goats) actually do well together, and they rarely get much interactions with humans beyond feedings and seeing zoo guests from a distance (although often even that can be rare for some since they often put reflective film on windows so the animals cant see the zoo guests). Some animals NEED to be with others of their kind and some animals NEED tons of space: a wolf my have territory that's as small as 7sqmi or as large as 1000sqmi, most bears cover at least 60sqmi, and migrating species may cover multiple countries or half a continent. Some animals have such a strong drive to be with others that isolation can quickly drive them nuts like some animals that form schools, flocks, or herds may get really anxious on their own. I met someone who got a goat or a sheep (I forget which) but just 1 so it would often huddle up to anything roughly it's size and be afraid to leave that spot, herd animals often need a group or they feel exposed and endangered.
I'm not a regular viewer but I have watched plenty of young TH-camrs obviously reading words from a script that they don't understand and pronounce incorrectly. You on the other hand seem to have a decent grasp on phonics and an interest in the subject being discussed. Good job, keep it up. All the success.
A couple thing I learned about rabies:
If you are attacked by an animal with the disease, don't try to fight it. -Even if you have a gun and manage to put it down without a scratch, it doesn't take more than a drop of blood from the gunshot wound going into into your mouth or eyes to infect you.- I have discovered that this previous sentence is false. But the point still stands: the safest course of action is to find shelter and report the incident to an animal control center rather than risking a totally preventable infection.
If you do get infected, go to a hospital immediately. Rabies only becomes deadly once you start showing symptoms; it's 100% treatable otherwise.
The treatment is almost as scary as the illness. Don’t you have to get like over 50 shots in your stomach? And don’t the shots become increasingly more painful as your body starts to fight the illness leaving less production of endorphins + the repeated injections causing severe soreness and weakness?
@@Bro1212_ The treatment is nowhere as bad as the disease. The vaccine and wound treatment can cause discomfort but your statement is very overblown, idk where you have the information from but that's definitely not the modern treatment. You do get a lot of injections but muscle soreness is usually the worst thing that happens.
@@Bro1212_nothing's worse than your body rejecting you trying to drink water until you shrivel up and die
@@Lil_Harvard I wasn’t trying to imply that the treatment is as bad as a death sentence. I was just trying to say that the treatment can be very very unpleasant because you have to undergo a hellish series of shots on top of your body trying to fight the disease
@@Bro1212_ Depends on your definition of hellish I guess. When the worst side effect of the shots are msucle soreness I think I can name a lot of treatments that are a lot worse
When I was a kid, there was an outbreak of scabies at school. I remember how miserable the treatments were even though I wasn’t badly affected, and it created a lifelong paranoia about parasites
“Zoos have the potential for a lot of good and a lot of bad.”
As a former intern zookeeper… 100%. A lot of the care for animals comes down to funding. So many zoos are state-owned and not getting the money their animals need. Not every low-income zoo is a bad place, but money buys bigger enclosures and better enrichment… support your local zoos guys
State funded businesses are bad. People can run far more successful businesses than any government can. When your begging the state for money instead of earning it yourself you will always be in trouble.
Better to house a few animals in appropriate size enclosures with enough staff to care for them than several in enclosures that are too small and not have enough staff to give them proper care.
My local zoo got a lot better after the government bought it, although now the provincial government has issues with the central government
Part of me wonders if a "rolling" zoo would be a good idea. Basically, the animals all have enclosures that are technically connected (one small enclosure/hallway between exhibits).
Every few days all animals are moved to the next full sized enclosure over. New area, new experiences, less zoochosis.
Obviously though you don't want to get the transition period wrong, nor do you want disease transmission.
You put them in a cage for amusement, let em be free
Zoos need to be HUGE and have open enclosures for the inhabitants in their own sections set up like their natural habitat. There’s one like that near where I live and the animals are all very happy and very well taken care of. It’s inhumane to keep them in small enclosures and caged up.
Wasted Deer disease and Rabies are so terrifying for the fact that it doesn't just get you sick, but either eating you from the inside or literally manipulating your brain. So terrifying infact that both diseases are probably the inspiration for The Plague of Madness in the episode of Primal, "The Plague of Madness". If you know, you know
That episode was both sick (pun intended) and terrifying at the same time
Fun fact: a sauropod dinosaur bone was discovered in 2020 with evidence of osteomyelitis and bone parasites, causing it to look almost exactly like Primal's infected sauropod, albeit without the horrifying aggression.
Keep in mind that this discovery was made after the episode aired on April 1st.
that episode is terrifying
I think I have come across a deer suffering from wasting disease in the wild. I was driving a family member to an appointment and a deer came out from the woods looking like a walking skeleton. It couldn’t even walk on its own hooves. It was horrible and I didn’t know what to do.
Favorite episode, best animated horror out of anything period
Rabies is perhaps the worst possible way to go. It's one of those things where it's hard to choose if it's more terrifying than being buried alive or not.
No it's not...
Buried alive is faster
@@maximedaunis8292name something worse then.
buried alive you are still there, you can still fight, and you can rationalize or even accept your fate.
rabies, you just get replaced, and then you die
You can survive being buryed alive if you fight hard as hell, rabies too if yoi get treatment IMMEDIATELY but if you see symptoms its OVER
Around 20 years ago i went to the Amsterdam Zoo and a panther had been headbutting a wall for so long that he was bald but the brick wall was black from its hair being embedded in it. One of the most disgusting examples of animal cruelty iv ever seen, in a Fin zoo! Pretty much every animal there was insane. it was vile. :(
I have despised zoos since I went to The National Zoo in DC way back in the mid 1990's. There was an obviously extremely depressed gorilla there. The rest of it wasn't much better. It was horrific.
That’s So Horrible, Poor Panther 😭
Of note before the comments inevitably spiral: not all zoos are awful. There are definitely many who are, and in some parts of the world they still suck and should get shut down, no doubt about that. But it's important to mention that the quality of life for animals has increased with time and awareness, and also that some zoos perform vital functions. Such as helping raise the numbers of endangered species, or educating the public.
Certain animals should never be in captivity, and a good chunk of zoos suck. But it's not all of them, and making a blanket statement such as that helps nobody.
@@denjidenji9162thank you for that! You’re the goat!
Go to do Detroit zoo it is pretty big so most of the time you don’t even see the animals (for some exhibits)
15:02 watching this video on Halloween after a year
Same it just popped in recommended again
Wildlife rehabber here, some corrections (specifically with rabies!): The foaming at the mouth isn't a guaranteed symptom and can actually go away! It's just the most commonly shoe because, well, it's great for scares. The more common symptom and the clue that the animal is near death is total paralysis of the hind end! The back legs, and tail are totally numb, meaning you can drag the creature by the tail and it'll feel nothing. I say this because it's actually something that happened to me. A Woman brought a raccoon that she thought had been hit by a car (dragging its hind end) but she couldn't see the injury. His behavior was relatively normal (for an adult, wild raccoon dealing with people), but vocalizations were..... Unnerving. There was none of the usual chittering or chatting, it was growling and screeching. Noises that raccoons don't normally make. He barely nicked me, but we still got him tested and he was GLOWING. He wasn't foaming at the mouth or anything, and his mouth actually look pretty dry, but yeah. The foaming at the mouth isn't guaranteed and it could be a sign of an animal choking. Still, always be careful!
In other news, since I'm a wildlife rehabber, I have to carry a card with a list of zoonotic diseases I could possibly get (so doctors know to be careful). It's in alphabetical order. The first one listed is Anthrax. I always make jokes about it.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing! :)
ah yes, anthrax, AKA _sheep shearer's disease_ - a fact i find genuinely horrifying
Any disease can cause paralysis or salivating really, it's why Rabies is so hard to identify. The main reason people fear it.
Some leaves will make dog's mouths foam if they start chewing them. I'm SO lucky that my local park has such leaves and my dog goes straight for them. Scared me the first time
Just got my anthrax vaccine 2 days ago. Holy hell...that's one spicy shot!
Didn't even have to watch to know rabies would be up there. Terrible disease. My uncle and I had to out down a few beloved dogs who were bit by rabid raccoons. We knew it was a blessing and we were putting them out of their misery but 40 years later it still breaks my heart. RIP Ranger and Tessa
I am so sorry, nothing is more heartbreaking than having to put down a pet, no matter the reason, but especially over something like a life-cancelling disease.
2023 I Don't know you, you don't know me. I caught your response during a casual watch of this vid and it moved me. The world needs more unbiased compassion. Rest in Peace Ranger and Tessa. I wish I knew you. :) Love to @texasred2702 I Don't know anything about you or your uncle, I do know you shared a painful story and hints of a fond memory of long gone pets. I hope you and yours are doing well. :) Huggles to ALL involved :) Thank you for sharing.
Rip ranger and tessa they on the rainbow bridge tho 😢
rip ❤️🕊️
RIP Ranger and Tessa
I encountered a rabid vole once while out walking my dog. I was very lucky I spotted it before she did! The thing that tipped me off that it was rabid was its behaviour: instead of immediately running away from us, it ran TOWARDS us, then fell on its side. It got up and started running in circles and I got my dog the hell away from there. Even a tiny animal becomes terrifying with that disease.
especially since most dogs naturally want to kill rodents like voles which would likely infect the dog if they're not already vaccinated.
Good!
This is the sort of stuff that should be taught in school.
Pro-life tip: if something seems the opposite of what it should be, then you shouldnt be there.
A bunch of men hanging around with 0 children at a park? GTFO
A shy animal being bold as fuck? Big problems require bigger distance
A random rich celebrity saying they need cash cause they broke? Bro faking it.
@@FocusedFighter777instead they be talking about shit like “lava is called magma when underground”
It could have been poisoned mice act like that when they're dying from poison
Zoochosis among humans is something I’m pretty sure I’ve seen working in a prison.
The most petrifying aspect of these diseases is, there's no stopping it, you can only slow it down.
Well I mean... There is one way to stop it, but it involves the deaths of over 28 decillion entities. (Animals, Humans, Bacterias, and Plants included)
I can understand how stories of vampires and werewolves got started in medieval Europe
@@Tempusverum Aye, that's likely what caused so much paranoia way back when.
Rabies is vaccinatable.
That or just sacrifying the animal in the worst case. In the case of rabies in dogs and cats (at least in Chile) is to euthanize the infected animal because it is a new focus of the desease (in Chile, rabies are erradicated in the populated zones). That doesn't mean that we kill the native fauna, but we try to keep them at bay for the safety of them and ours.
The only one that is treatable from this video that I know of is minge (you just need to wash the animal, on a special bath obviously). But prions and specially rabies don't actually have a cure in animals, except death.
Rabies is by far the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. The protocols in vets offices for dealing with suspected rabies cases it's brutal.
Remove the head, it's the only way to make sure.
The worst part is, since humans are sentient when they get infected they are completely aware of what’s happening, but can’t do anything to stop it. Imagine having your brain rewired to fear water, and lash out randomly while you suffer from convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and seizures that you can do nothing to stop. It’s horrifying and I’ve done an incredible amount of research on the disease so if I ever run into an infected animal I’ll be able to tell and deal with it properly
@@elmonpawz4843I honestly do believe that Rabies is the closest thing we have to a zombie infection, next to intaking Flakka.
Rabies is literally the closest thing to zombies in real life
at least with rabies we have a vaccine. Prion diseases? pfffft, you just sign your death certificate.
also some speculate that Edgar Allen Poe died of rabies.
Hearing about zoocosis has made me realise that i saw a lion with this in Germany
It was doing exactly what that leopard was doing. The enclosure was near the entrance to the zoo, it was the first place I visited, i went back before i left some 5 hours later and it was still pacing. Completely ignoring the massive chunk of meat behind it.
It made me sad at the time but knowing this has made it even sadder
I saw an animal acting that way too. Sad.
When I went to the Wilhelma in Stuttgart, there was this cheetah sitting directly in front of the fence. Some people where making noises at him, like you would do to gain a house cats attention.
I remember looking directly into his eyes and they just went right through me, like he didnt see me or anything else at all. Its hard to describe but they were the most dead and empty eyes I ever saw, there was just absolutely nothing left. It was haunting and disturbing and left me with this sick feeling in my stomach. I'll never ever forget those eyes and I'll never enter any kind of zoo ever again.
That means the zoo you went to was unethical and abused and neglected a lot of the animals, and you unintentionally became a part of the problem by coming here
zoochosis is not actually a thing. it was coined and spread by an anti captivity group as propoganda.
Zoocosis is why I don't go to any type of zoo or any place that encloses any animal. I also refuse to ever have an animal that requires confining. It's not right.
I want to tell you how much I appreciate the ACCURACY in your videos. I'm a microbiologist and am sick of watching videos about science, disease, etc and there are multiple errors. I've given up trying to correct the wrong information; I just finally had to say fuck it and quit. With yours I haven't found one error. None! And I also appreciate your humor. So keep up the good work.
Rabies is why you need to get medical treatment ASAP after being bitten by an animal. I read somewhere that, after stray dogs, the most likely animals to infect you with rabies are bats and raccoons, so if either of those ever get close enough to touch you it's a good idea to check of bites or scratches.
And for bats it's best to go get vaccinated even if you don't think you were bit because their fangs are so sharp that they can bite you without you feeling it. Just being touched by a bat is a rabies warning
Bats are especially dangerous in that regard. Unlike other animals, they very rarely die of rabies (or any other disease) thanks to their strong immune system.
And that's a bad thing, because they can still get sick and spread it to other species. This also carriers over to other diseases like Ebola or the dreaded Marburg-virus.
Cats.
Blue Herb time.
Has anyone died of raccoon rabies?
Zoochosis happens in elderly people stuck in care facilities as well, with residents CONSTANTLY itching or pulling out their hair, picking at their skin, or just walking/ standing constantly and it normally treated with medications to the point of sedation. When residents pass their afflictions can actually pass on to nearby residents as well.
That's so sad 😞
@kristenHotchkiss85 I just didn't realize it had a name. :(
That's also symptoms of dementia, alzheimers, etc. Their brain isnt working right and it causes stress and repetitive things like picking can be self soothing behaviors. It's also why you see similar actions with some anxiety disorders.
@arthas640 It doesn't just occur in residents with anxiety disorders, dementia or alzheimers either. It can occur in residents that seem well adjusted and take little to no meds.
It isn't just about brain impairment.
If they can still walk well, they also do the pacing.
I'm literally HORRIFIED of Rabies. I am almost terrified of any and all wild animals because of that disease.
Some good news: opossums basically can't carry Rabies, because their body temp is too low for the virus to replicate. Vaccinating dogs against rabies - as well as leash laws and a decrease in dog hunting - has led to it diminishing in wild animals drastically. Rabies also only affects mamals, so birds and reptiles and fish are safe from it.
@@curiousKuro16 This does help thanks!
Bat's are also rare to bite anything that isn't prey as long as they aren't being held or whatever. They also rarely get caught in hair like many people say they do. They have pretty decent eye sight plus echolocation which helps them navigate. Mostly they are just interested in easily insects and doing their thing. One really cool thing about them is they really help keep down the mosquito population which can carry west nile disease. I wouldn't recommend getting all chummy with a bat (unless you know what your fully doing) but honestly they really aren't much to fear about them. If you want to see a really cute bat look up the fox bat, they're fruit bat's and are super adorable. I how to someday be able to interact with one of them
Why? You're vaccinated. You can't get the disease even if you do get infected. Whole point of the vaccine in the first place.
Same here. Lemme tell you. Where i am rn. There are unvaccinated dogs literally roaming everywhere.
I told my friend, if I ever get rabies, I want him to just Old Yeller me.
The Prion thing is really the most terrifying to me. It's relatively easy to infect another individual, it lasts forever on surfaces, with few ways to destroy it, and it takes years to show symptom while still being infectious. It would be a disastrous pandemic, if a disease like that broke into the human population and remained as contagious.
Haven't really looked it up too much, but given Mad Cow disease did spread to humans, it feels more than likely possible.
Humans do have a couple of Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, and kuru. Every one of them is pure undiluted nightmare fuel, though I personally think fatal familial insomnia is the worst. One day, you suddenly become completely incapable of sleeping. Not even anesthesia or drugs will knock you out. You then proceed to slowly go insane over the course of a few months until you finally die from sheer exhaustion.
@@flowerfaerie8931 There was another comment explaining Kuru, but with the simple description of fatal familial insomnia, it kind of sounds like what happens in "Russian Sleep Experiment".
(Probably not the first time it's said or thought of in context of this video, but reality is stranger than fiction).
@@nameynamd9212 It’s not unlike that. Patients don’t really become violent or erratic, but they do suffer something like a very rapid form of Alzheimer’s.
@@flowerfaerie8931 I guess it's closer to how rabies to zombie infections are, having similar basic ideas, but diverging from there.
An interesting fact that you left out about the human prion disease: It is also known as Kuru, and is mostly passed from people eating their dead in Papa New Guinea.
Also, the reason that Mad Cow Disease spread the way it did to other cows was because the farmers were feeding the dead diseased cows to their healthy cows, not understanding how prions worked.
Both with Kuru and Mad cow disease they where eating or fed the brain with had the prions and led to the spread of the disease. Mad cow disease mainly happened in UK, it's absolutely disgusting what they fed to their animals. But even worse some of this nasty, cheap cow mest material (I wouldn't exactly call it meqt as it was a mix of bones, intestines, meat, diseased brain) where made into sausages that was fed to children on school lunches so some children got this disease which is called Creutzfeldt Jacobs disease in humans. You can spontainiously get CJD too.
Yummy in my tummy 😋
Kuru is actually a completely different prion than the one that causes CJD, so technically there are actually 2 human prion diseases.
That being said, kuru is insanely rare, to the point where it may actually not exist anymore. The reason is because the only way to get kuru is to eat infected human brain tissue. Whereas CJD has both familial and iatrogenic forms, meaning you can either inherit it or become infected with it externally.
Farmers may have not understood prions, but they certainly knew feeding dead cows to cows is not natural and just not right.
I’m gonna tell my png friend about this lol
The whole rabid/fear of water symptom almost makes it sound like it's a remarkably intelligent virus. That's _really_ horrific.
If rabies wasn’t so horrifying I’d almost give it props for how inventive the hydrophobia is as a method of spreading the disease.
As with survival of the fittest. The rabies strand which randomly caused hydrophobic was the most likely to be passed on. It's just amazing that such an outcome is even possible.
rabies is one of the oldest diseases, giving the virus lots of time to further develop a *very well* working concept
Which is why it will eventually evolve to be able to affect humans the same way it affects animals. Zombie apocalypse type stuff
@@condorgaming4000 I’m confused about what you’re talking about. Rabies is easily transmissible to humans.
When I heard him say that disease can pass on to a human, I turned Bacteriophobic straight away 💀
Hugo died in 1980, not 2022. He did die from brain aneurysm after ramming his head against the tank walls for *years*. He was only 15. So glad you brought him up, his story is one of the many tragic ones in killer whale captivity. You just got his year of death wrong
May have been a mistake, but I did think that was strange that he listed Hugo's death from last year. Beyond the head bashing though Orca (and other cetaceans) display a wide variety of zoochosis behavior in every location that has one captive. For some animals, no zoo will ever be enough.
@@dragongirl89115 it's insane because even the ones born in captivity are displaying these behaviors
Worth noting that there actually IS a prion disease that's famous in humans: Kuru. Comes about thanks to cannibalism, and is pretty horrifying in its own right. Disease itself lasts 12 months, and starts with headaches and joint issues in legs, then moves onto lack of balance when moving and walking, shaking, and difficulty speaking. After that the shaking gets worse, the person stops being able to walk on their own, and starts to develop mental issues such as depression and spontaneous, uncontrolled laughter. Finally, it moves onto a complete inability to even sit up without help, difficulty swallowing, incontenance, inability to speak, become unresponsive while still conscious, and can develop and ulcerated wounds, before finally passing on, usually between 3 months to two years after reaching that last stage thanks either to the disease itself, or complications from it.
That's Creutzfeld-Jakob. It's simply a different term.
@@Just_a_GothNope. They’re very, very similar but do have slight differences
@@ghoultooth Fair enough. I blame inadequate information from other sources.
Kuru originates from eating a person who had Creutzfeldt Jakob disease - a member of the community developed it and died due to funerary customs the misfolded prions spread via canablism
It can also be dormant in some people and passed on genetically.
Got attached by an abandoned cat while at work. Rabies was one of the first tings they checked for/asked about. Tip: Get a butterfly needle if you need to get blood drawn for rabies. They take a fair bit out of you lol
You did a very good job on this video. My son when four years old was bit by a cat yet the local hospital did not want to give him the series of rabies shots. Thankfully, the WI State Veterinarian spoke with me and gave me the courage to go back and demand my boy be fully treated
Alright that's messed up. A kid gets bitten by a feral cat and the hospital outright refuses to do tests. Good thing you went back
That could have ended badly , Glad you stood your ground,I got a rabies vaccine 2 years Ago and I want it again because it still haunts me how scary rabies is
that's because the shots themselves are very physically taxing and not usually given to children. not an excuse for what happened, but a reason. when I was a wildlife worker, we were not allowed to treat raccoons with anyone under 18 in our household for this reason. still, props for looking out for your little man and I hope he's doing well
rabies shots are far less physically taxing to the body than rabies.
@@gingermaniac5484 no shit lol
Distributing, haunting truths about real world dangers are 6000 times scarier than any fictitious horror movie
"Reality is more terrifying than even the most disturbed nightmare, as nightmares can be woken up from. Reality cannot."
- someone from the past
When I was a kid, I asked my dad what was the scariest movie for him, and he said "The Shining". I thought: "Well, it's good, but it's not that scary". "It is scarier than any movie about monsters or zombies, because unlike those, a person going crazy and becoming a murderer is a horror we have to live with in real life". Man, was he right.
@@ShwappaJdeath:
I've always said that if a zombie apocalypse really did happen and society broke down, I'd be _way_ more scared of the other, desperate humans than the zombies. At least you know what the zombies will do.
As a biologist, prion diseases scare the life out of me.
As an animal lover, they also terrify me. Seeing a deer do some of the things described by people who have witnessed CWD would probably make me simultaneously sympathetic and probably shit my pants.
It's my biggest nightmare as a doctor.
Rabies, we have protocols for. Prions? Nothing.
The thought of something as small as a protein misfolding and taking away my own mind is... yeah. Not a good way to go.
@@kickassssnation027 Since you're a doctor, I wonder what would happen to a human infected with rabies if we threw him into a swimming pool.?
as a MLT, I don't blame you. there's no cure or even treatment. You just waste away.
0:18 tf is that
Pretty sure it’s a dead fox decomposing and being eaten by bugs/maggots.
Fox
Oh😮. Um… ok. 😢 poor fox
Nurgle they love that!
Its a fox being consumed
I work with children for an after school program and today one said “I’ve got rabies and I’m gonna bite you”. I then sat her down to explain to her how dangerous rabies is. She then cried and apologized to her friend.
Bet that was scarring lols
I get the kid was most likely joking and trying to act funny, but yeah thank you for educating them regardless. As it is indeed a dangerous virus that needs to taken seriously considering how many animals and humans it has and will infect unless we don't find a way to put extinction to it.
You're a killjoy
and the reason you felt the need to ruin the child's day was...?
How does that information benefit the child
My cat was an animal I rescued from outdoors. She had a TERRIBLE case of mange where most her fur was gone and she could barely move. Keep in mind I am horribly allergic to cats but after we got her treated and they told us it would be extremely unlikely she'd be adopted since she's at least 7yrs old which meant the treatment we were giving her would probably mean nothing in the end. So I now get prescription allergy meds and we've got a cat who is the queen of our castle. But it especially makes me happy to know I could make a difference in at least one animal's life.
Which is just ridiculous. Do you understand the hundreds of billions of animals that come to a horrible end every hour? If you had money to spare for charity, you should have spent it on humans in need.
@nelus7276 Long-term Charity represents the failure from the organization that is responsible for these things, using Bandage alone to fix infected deep pellets wound is not gonna help much.
Charity is a con, feed a man a meal and he has food for a day, teach him a trade and you've fed him for life.
Not once has charity EVER lifted anyone out of poverty, it becomes a crutch for ppl and then companies use it as a tax write off and give the stuff to the poor to get rid of the stock. Everything from tents and sleeping bags to food that would expire the next day.
@@nelus7276 I still don't get what the new wave of trolls is accomplishing. Take stupidest take on the face of the entire planet and then...? Are you getting money from making this post? Does being an idiot and a villain fill you with some satisfaction? Please enlighten me, I've seen so many of your species crawling around this website and it baffles me every time. At least the spam and giveaway scam trolls use automation so they're not actually eating up their time on phishing.
Womp womp@@nelus7276
While I worked in corrections, I had to take an inmate to the hospital for scabies. He was an old man, about 72 if I remember correctly, and he already had a compromised immune system. It was so bad he was unresponsive. His flesh had the texture of Kellogg's corn flakes. His whole body was just crust and he would leave a trail of broken off pieces of himself everywhere he was. It was unbelievable. The areas of his body that were supposed to have some flexibility, like his fingers, eyebrows, elbows, etc, had deep red fissures where the skin would typically bend and he was leaking fluids from the cracks. The doctors/nurses took his temperature at the hospital and I'll never forget it, his temperature was 88 degrees. He died about 10 hours after leaving the prison. It was without a doubt the most upsetting thing I have ever witnessed.
88 degrees of?
Sorry as italian i'm thinking about Celsius and is literally wow.
@@simonemollo127 88F is 31C
How terribly sad . For all Christians out there , looking after the imprisoned is a duty you have to Christ .
Oh well, it is what it is.
@@danas986 thanks
Zoochosis is probably the most terrifying one to me. The idea of a creature’s mind simply *breaking* is so heart shatteringly fucked up.
That’s an interesting take on Zoochosis and our own species, I often find myself restless and even consumed with intrusive thoughts when I’m stuck in a work environment yet when I’m out exploring, climbing and hiking around, none of those issues are no longer prevalent. I believe firmly that we do not thrive in these artificial environments, which is what causes subsequent mental illnesses
As an extreem introvert I see what you mean and agree. but I do like to stay indoors and be let be XD
Go outdoors and contract a trillion kind of parasites and viruses instead!
We evolved to be in hills, plains, woods and wherever else, but definitely not concrete jungles. The more densely packed and large a city is, the more you see modern psychological issues. In something like villages, it's seen less often.
Part of it is also the fact it correlates to that as ease of meeting biological needs increases, the more energy we have that is directed towards meeting psychological needs.
Psychological needs like *life satisfaction, social connections, and self enrichment.*
Things that are becoming *MORE* difficult to satisfy in increasingly capitalistic societies.
The USA has consistently higher rates of mental illness, and some of the lowest rates of life satisfaction. For a supposed "First World Country," we have disproportionately low accessibility for life needs, despite disproportionately high work hours.
It's actually been shown in several studies that spending time with nature *doesn't* improve symptoms of mental health issues _unless_ you are part of certain demographics. With said demographics being White, but most importantly *middle class or above.*
Meaning that unless your needs are met, time with nature isn't going to help you.
So we have Zoochosis, except worse because there's no amount of nature enrichment that will help when you're aware that you are still in the cage.
Go down the rabbit hole of the rat utopia experiment........
Rabies has always terrified me, partly because I watched the movie 'Old Yeller' as a child. I'm so thankful to live in a country that doesn't have rabies.
@HellBlazerMNE07Australia doesn't have it, which part of the reason why their regulations on animals are so from outside countries are so strict
@HellBlazerMNE07Japan doesn't have it either
@HellBlazerMNE07 The UK also pretty much doesn't have it. It's present in some types of bats, though not enough to pose any real threat.
@HellBlazerMNE07 when I'm nice I learn more from people. I can say I have friends from all over the world who have taught me unique and fascinating things.
@HellBlazerMNE07 Rude arrogance is never a good look.
When I was 17 and hanging out with my younger friend we were riding bikes on the trail behind her housing development. It was the middle of the day when we stopped for water and all of a sudden a raccoon started towards us, all friendly like. My friend wanted to pet it but I told her to bike home as fast as possible while I called animal control. I knew that critter wasn't home anymore.
As she biked away the raccoon started chasing her, only stopping when I sneezed and it started towards me. I was already on the phone with animal control and started booking it outta there.
It was scary. It was snarling and snapping and I didn't see foam but it's eyes were SO green. It shied away when I squirted my water bottle at it. So. Prolly a rabid raccoon.
Jeeeeez, dude. It's a good thing you knew well enough! Poor little fella. I hope they put it out of its misery.
Good job, you probably saved your friend's life there.
The detail about green eyes actually changes the diagnosis! The raccoon you saw wasn't suffering from rabies, but rather canine distemper. A raccoon infected with distemper behaves very similarly to one with rabies -- unusual tameness that gives way to aggression with very little warning. In the late stages of infection, mineral deposits build up in the eyes, making them opaque and BRIGHT green. Fortunately for you, canine distemper is not zoonotic, so it couldn't have infected you. But it's no less terrible a way for a critter to go.
@@bearbearington9113 good lord! Even if it wasn't rabies, I cannot imagine being attacked by a crazy animal. You could survive that, but i'd prefer not having the trauma.
I'd still not go near that raccoon, they carry deadly diseases@@bearbearington9113
The footage of that poor bear at 10:38 is just heartbreaking.
I once read an article that fairly convincingly argued that werewolves, as a concept, were inspired by sightings of bears suffering from mange.
What if also the transmission of the rabies disease through canine bites also inspired some of it?
That seems unlikely. Werewolves are a really old concept going back to ancient Greece and Rome, but they were always people who turned into full wolves (usually through unexplained magic or because they got turned into wolves by Zeus/Jupiter), not the Hollywood wolf-man hybrids.
It wasn't until the 1940s when movies about werewolves start popping up that you get wolf-man hybrids as the norm for werewolves. And that was almost certainly because throwing some hair on an actor's face and hands was significantly easier than having someone full on transform into an animal with 1940s movie technology.
So while bears with mange might look like our modern idea of a werewolf, it's mostly just a coincidence. Without their fur and standing on their hind legs, bears can look remarkably like people with the notable exceptions of their heads and paws. Since those were the parts of the body seen in early movie werewolves, those were also the parts that changed the most.
tldr; sorry. Probably not the cause of werewolf lore, they just coincidentally look like early movie werewolves.
@vampiricqueen100 That is super fascinating. Thank you for sharing that. I absolutely adore Werewolves.
Or it caused by the sightings of people that got rabies because bitten by rabid fox or wof
@@vampiricqueen100 Sorry to be this blunt about it, but you're flat out wrong. We have depictions of werewolves from as far back as two millennia ago that portray them as various kinds of human-wolf hybrid creature. Yes, stories of werewolves being humans who change full into a wolf are also common, including some of the most famous ones like the story of King Lycaon of Arcadia, but the 'wolf-man hybrid' portrayal of werewolves is just as old, not something invented for the movies.
Rabies is even worse than you described because not only does it do everything it said but you’ll also experience memory loss and severe paranoia of everything just before you die. Walking corpse is an incredibly accurate statement, since for the last couple of days of you life, you won’t act like a person, or even an animal, you’ll act like a corpse.
"Turning his puke into infinite food glitch-"
My man has a way of describing things but the imagination of it is unreal
edit: 2.5K likes... ya'll are crazy!
I'm sure some is AI generated, which comes up with pretty clever and off the wall stuff if given the right prompts.
Were you able to guess what Coprophagia (the symptom immediately following the puke clip) is?
@@intpleb4206 I'd be surprised. This guy has had interesting verbiage for pretty much all of the episodes I've seen of his stuff.
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cows on a daily basis
I must say, I like how you always add more information just to raise awarness without promoting unnecesary fears. Though the Zoochosis hit pretty hard, both the actual disease and its implications.
At this point Casual's research history is probably almsot as disturbing as dolphin's whole existence
Dont forget with chimpanzee existence too that horrifyingly can reveal about certain part of human behavior
Thank you sharing the statistic about how rare rabies transmission from bats is! I LOVE bats and donate to Bat Conservation International. A lot of bats are endangered and without them we will likely suffer catastrophic human loss. They are pollinators as well as prolific mosquito killers.
I love bats too, I'd keep them as buddies if I thought I could care for them well enough.
@@boocrimson7720 yes! i've been calling bats dogs with wings for years and no one believes me
bats are my fave animal too! they're so mistreated
And some bats are super-snuggly!
Helping an October animal education program, I was able to hold the friendliest flying fox they had. She decided the sun was too bright, so she stuck her head under the collar of my shirt. And went right back to sleep. The vampire bat was probably the second-cutest, scampering across the little table-stage to get his blood-treats.
I absolutely adore bats!
@@icarusbinns3156 omg, lucky!! I'd kill for that. flying foxes are probably my favorite and I'd love to hold one but yk. ┐(´ー｀)┌
Can say I was definitely suffering from a minor case of Zoochosis during my time going to school out in LA. I grew in a rural forested environment and once the novelty of the city wore off it began to drain on me and make me very depressed the lack of greenery and the over abundance of people it started fucking with my mind very badly to the point I actually thought about killing myself several times as it felt like I was imprisoned by that environment some days. I eventually used the pandemic as an excuse to come home and my mental health shot up like a rocket once I was able to touch some grass. People forget sometimes we're animals ourselves and sometimes we just don't do well in new environments long term
Our brains have a natural attraction towards water and green open spaces. Without them we get sort of sad without even realizing. It's why offices, shops and public buildings try to add blue and green these days. I live in a more rural city which is not surrounded by forests but does have a lot of tree's and fields. I definitely notice similar effects when in bigger cities where I just feel more tired and less unique. I get into simple routines more and just wait for the day to be over.
Yeah I feel like the rise in the mental health crisis is also probably (at least partially) caused by zoochosis. The repeating, mundane, and isolated environment gets to people. Even though we’re more connected than ever, we’re more lonely
Zoochosis, imo is the scariest "disease" listed in the video (besides prions, the fact not even fire or harsh acids can kill them is terrifying to me)... Humans are def outta touch with how we should be living. My apt has a small strip of scraggly "forest" in the back, and there's lots of development going on nearby. My roommate & I love our little forest patch so much, we feed the invasive sparrows (wishing we knew how to attract native species, which we see very few of), we enjoy watching the squirrels, and every now and then a hawk or owl will stop by... Basically, if the developers chop down our forest patch we're moving immediately.
i loved living in the city but it did the same to my mental health
Sure this place has parks and things, but it’s still a small city. Being close to so many other people is exhausting, and would much rather be in a smaller town again. Been here for over a decade, and I still don’t like it
Breathing with wizards got me💀🙏 3:46
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Im glad you actually showed multiple examples of animals with rabies. Its scary how alot of people don't know the signs of rabies and try to approach the animals.
You cannot ID rabies just from behavior. I know the deer in the parking lot came up as positive according to original uploader, followed up with health department after it was beheaded. Obviously you should not approach such an animal. But it is annoying to see people randomly shoot an animal since they think any abnormal behavior = rabid.
@@pickles3128you are exactly right, any animal exhibiting strange or abnormal behavior should NOT be approached, but really that just goes for wild animals and unfamiliar animals (strays) in general. Best thing to do is inform local police of the animal or animal control, who yes will more n likely shoot it cause it's behavior is erratic and therefore it could pose a threat and it's brain matter needs to be tested. Better safe than sorry is how the situation would be looked at. With that being said, when a wild animal or stray is running in circles repeatedly, experiencing seizures, has excessive drooling, is abnormally aggressive, or acts like it has no fear towards humans...it's more n likely rabid. One of the main ways of concluding the animal could have the virus is by taking note of how it is behaving.
Zoocosis definitely sounds like things humans do under abuse and/or imprisonment with stress. I self injured under abuse and when I became suicidal and was hospitalized I also did a lot of pacing because we were trapped in a relatively small high stress space with no outdoors and less to do.
My best friend is a mortician, and a former colleague of his was diagnosed with CJD. He likely caught it from a cadaver some time in his over 30 year career. My friend called me the night he was admitted to the hospital. His colleague was delirious, and had "raged out" on his family. My friend and I hung out the third day, and he was in shock, they were only just becoming aware of what was happening; his colleague entered into a coma that night. He died day 6.
My friend has two major worries now when handling bodies: fentanyl contamination, and that someday, years down the line, he might go from respected professional in his field, to experiencing all the stages of Alzheimer's in a week.
Fentanyl contamination isn't a real thing, it was implied to be after some cops likely got panic attacks after touching some thinking it could hurt them. But yeah, there's 0% chance of being harmed by the body of a fentanyl user.
However, CJD can absolutely be transmitted from dead bodies. Surgeons have refused to do brain surgery on patients who have it for fear of catching it themselves after it happened exactly that way to one surgeon
I'm so sorry for your friends loss. :(
As a wise man once said. Fuck that
I absolument love this guy’s voice, it’s so soothing but at the same time the sprinkled memes and jokes just have you hooked instantly
The zoochosis segment brought the film "Blackfish" to mind. People don't understand just how much space larger animals need. Especially marine animals. And the CWD bit sounds like a good inspiration for a zombie film with a new twist. No need for a rapid spread that causes an apocalypse. Just something slow-acting, slow-spreading, but very dangerous because no one knows what it really is or where it's coming from, and even once everyone finds out, it doesn't get any better because it's so difficult to control.
Reminded me of one dolphin documentary in my high school marine biology class called _The Cove_ detailing the capture and brutal slaughter of dolphins and the increase of mercury poisoning from dolphin meat and there was one segment with Ric O'Barry (He was this dolphin trainer-turned-activist in the '60's who helped capture and train five dolphins for this TV show _Flipper,_ from what little I understand about that show is it's just _Lassie_ but swap out the dog for a dolphin) talking about how one dolphin named Kathy _unalived herself_ in his arms by closing her blowhole after she was stored in some pool after the show ended as if she were nothing more than a prop. When Ric found her she was black from sunburn because the pool she was in was fairly shallow and her dorsal fin was flopping like the orcas at _SeaWorld._ Let me tell you, it takes _a lot_ to get me to feel sorry for the _Cosby/Dahmers_ of the ocean known as dolphins, and I'll say _that documentary was a lot._
Yeah there are some animals like many rodents and reef fish that are naturally adapted for small spaces and dont need or even want tons of space, but others like whales and dolphins need _tons_ of space. Orcas not only are adapted to vast tracts of ocean but they're also _fucking huge_ so the little pools they get at places like Sea World are barely a fraction what they need.
zoochosis is anti captivity propoganda.
Pretty sure the move Maggie has a zombie apocalypse that goes slow like this
@@manofmoths2092 i wish they'd make more apocalypse movies like that. In movies the end always happens in like a week but even the worst real life disasters often take months or years to really grow out of hand. Covid is one of the best examples of a hyper virulent plague and it still took over a year to get to that point and that was with multiple major world governments resisting efforts to fight the plague at first. Looking at most of the truly low points of humanity like global wars (Napoleon, WW1, WW2, Cold War), famines (Holodomr, Great Leap Forward), or societal collapses (Great Depression) or other plagues (Black Death, Spanish Flu) took years to grow even if you dont count a lot of the preceding events. A slow apocalypse is more realistic and if anything more terrifying since it's less like a fast, relatively merciful gunshot and more like gangrene as you watch the world slowly die and rot while it struggles to survive.
CWD doesn’t just stay active in soil for a few years, it can last for at least 14+ years. In my state which is a big hunting state game and fish recommends that you send samples from your deer/elk to be tested so they can track the levels and locations in the state and see how many animals have it. It’s so rampant it’s terrifying.
A former friend worked as a social worker and got infected with scabies.
She then went ahead and infected half our friend group because she had the bad habit of being more social than smart.
She jokes about how its not that bad, but I got so uncomfortable around her.
Bugs under the skin being "not that bad"? The sh*t causing the problems being not that bad? 🤢
I thought you said rabies for a moment and honestly got very very concerned for a moment. One of the commenters here said the vaccine is about 18 shots to the stomach
It's the one thing that makes dermatologists and ER workers squirm.
@@cyanidenightshade could be remembering the wrong thing, but think it’s only a couple shots now and no longer has to be in the stomach.
A girlfriend of mine got scabies. I had no idea, scabies and mange were the same thing. You learn something new every day.
Good hint to not be around her lol.
Bro, this is the only video you have made so far that I plan to only watch once. Great work as always.
After hearing about how Rabies works, It's honestly so terrifying and how lucky my 2 friends lived. One of my friends quickly got treated while the other, after being bitten, calmly continued school and got treated after school. They're luckily both still alive right now.
I was talking once with my cousin that is vet and he said that when it comes to humans, rabies can be pure rng. Sometimes you will need to go to hospital asap and get treated while other time you will live for years before first symptoms will even show and discover that you had rabies. And of course the moment first symptoms start showing you better start writing down your last will and testament because chance of you surviving this is extremly low.
@@kadarak1
Virtually 0%.
There have been like 15 people who have survived rabies after symptoms have manifested in the history of humanity, and rabies takes out about 59,000 people annually. If we assume that 15 people survived every year instead of ever, that would be a survival rate of about 0.025%.
If something bites you, get vaccinated. RNGesus is not on your side.
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@@kadarak1 my uncle died of that when he was 9 😢my mom was 11 when he passed. It was a horrible way to go, very traumatic for the whole family
Your friend who isn’t treated most likely still has rabies. There is a long latency period between first getting attacked and getting symptoms. Take him/her to the hospital because when symptoms start appearing, it’s already too late.
@@thecarnew5334 they said their friend got treated after school finished, dw
My grandmother was diagnosed with sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob's Disease (CJD) and passed away about 6 months after symptoms started. It started with her losing her balance occasionally, and rapidly escalated to needing a cane, a walker, a wheelchair, and finally to the point of paralysis and being unable to speak or move, but still able to perceive her surroundings.. it was like she was trapped in her own body like a prison, no way to talk, move, or express herself other than blinking or moving her eyes.
This happened to my dad 8.5 years ago, he went insane too
Isn't CJD like dementia? Or it's a worse version of it
@@tomguglielmo9805in this case it seemed like a rapid onset of it, yeah - seemed to target her mobility more than her cognitive ability though - she was still answering questions and visibly aware up until she'll passed
@@Genius1114 sorry for you and her loss. Shits crazy
My wife's grandmother died of Creutzfeldt-jakob, due to its nature even those related to you are unable to give blood or anything.
The sheer mood whiplash from seeing some of the most horrific diseases that an animal can carry to a tale of how Manu Ginobili became HOF material for smacking a bat was definitely something else
It was a good whip-lash though… Well, maybe not for the bat. But he probably needed something because of all of the depressing stuff he had to look up. I can only imagine what kind of stuff he left out of the video that he saw.
Correction on 1:22 :
The legend of the Chupacabra started in Puerto Rico in 1995. It became notorious on the island and more sighting popped up across the island, jumping to Mexico and then later the lower states in the USA. The idea of the Chupacabra being a coyote or wild dog with mange was brought forth in the late 2000s. Why am I correcting this? Because we don’t have coyotes on the island. We do have dogs that run wild, but the idea of it being a mangy coyote is from the late 2000s
Man read Stephen King's Cujo, it explains rabies from the dogs point of view and it literally had me in tears.. like Cujo didn't understand the change happening and it made me into one of those "don't get a pet if you can't get it a rabies shot every year" person
I'll definitely check it out!
It's a great book and unrelated but pet cemetery is way better in the book than the movie too!
I heard a story on NPR recently that antivaxers are no longer getting their dogs vaccinated soooooo yeah, there's gonna be a lot of rabies in the decades to come.
@@maxeybailey718 Pet Cemetery hits u hard in the Book.
Another prion disease, though extremely rare (last I heard only 50 cases world wide) is fatal familial insomnia - you eventually lose the ability to sleep and die within a matter of months. I really hope they can find cures or treatments for these diseases for animals and people 😢
I’ve recently heard about that. It’s awful, and I’m glad it is so rare if it has to exist at all.
4:40-4:54 That makes WAY too much sense, like a scary amount of sense. Especially with how people can often times insist on doing all kinds of crap both to themselves and others over and over, and expecting a different result.
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Fun fact regarding prion diseases: they have been transmitted to humans from infected meat before. vCJD is a variant of the spontaneous Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease that arose from British farmers feeding their cows infected meat on a scale so large that once people started dying from eating said meat, it caused an entire national (and slightly international, considering all the British beef import bans that went up) crisis.
Fun (and terrifying) addition to the CWD section. The cryptid known as the Not Deer is almost certainly nothing more than a normal deer with CWD.
When I was a preschooler we lived on a quiet side street and often played in the street. One hot summer afternoon an unfamiliar dog staggered up the middle of the street, glassy-eyed and drooling. The older kids yelled and ran, but I was mesmerized. Mom ran outside screaming, scooped my brother and me up at the same time and ran inside.
The neighbor's husband came home from work and shot it, and the DEC agent took it for testing. There was a rabies outbreak that summer, and even though the law requires vaccinating all of your dogs and cats, people sometimes got lax with it.
that's terrifying
Reminds me of that scene in To Kill a Mockingbird
Its like a real life zombie virus. Good thing it's not super contagious like covid or we would all be fucked
@@mak_attakks it still is!
To anyone out there who got thourally depressed after watching this video, I am not a doctor, but just keep holding on to the fact that, out there, there are still good people working day and night to make sure we and the rest of the animal kingdom are safe out there from diseases like this.
Have a good day, and stay safe out in this big, unexplainable world.
You mean the people that put other animals in cages for entertainment and use their hardship as a justification for it?
Those are the good people?
This guy is super witty, made it very easy and enjoyable to follow along. Guess that's why he has millions of followers 👍
I live in an area with CWD and let me tell you, most people don't take that shit seriously enough. A deer can literally do a drive-by piss on your vegetable garden and suddenly those tomatoes are little prion bombs.