Wao what a case! My two daughters are studying Microbiology and I just shared this video with them to encourage their effort at University. I hope they enjoy this chapter as much as I did. Congratulations to all the team envolved in solving this case. 🎉
Your daughter's should be very interested is this. This might help them if they research this for a paper in one of their classes. Good luck to your daughters.
WOW! What a rare surprise to see this episode from my home city in "Beautiful British Columbia", Canada. Dr. Polson, a phenomenally caring & wise Pulmonary specialist was my Dr in the Royal Jubilee Hospital while treating me for TB. I still thank God for BLESSING me with such excellent medical care from Dr. Neil Crofton, my phenomenal Family Doctor, Dr. Polson, nurses and all the medical staff @ Royal Jubilee Hospital along with my caring homecare nurses, throughout my long healing process. Please remember to pray for & THANK your medical caregivers for continually updating their intensive medical knowledge & providing such dedicated care in your times of need. I am soooo GRATEFUL for my Famly Doctor Dr. Neil Crofton's over 20 years of excellent care, & all the specialists he has sent me to.
I grew up in Redmond, WA, in the early 70's and 80's. We visited Victoria, B.C. I loved it all. My dad got transferred away from the northwest when I was younger. I miss it.
Interesting episode. I know this case happened in 2002, but it amazed me that none of the healthcare providers or BC CDC were wearing respiratory masks while they were looking for respiratory contaminants. 😷😷😷
Yeah. You'd think the reenactment should be able to at least get that detail down. Iirc, 2002 was right in line for the anthrax scare, so wearing masks would absolutely have been a thing.
I love how the people in this show are always handling with highly contagious and dangerous pathogens without any PPE… like handling plates or sample tissues without gloves or masks, and constantly opening plates and moving them around just to look at them 😭😂
We have something like this in Ontario called blastomycosis. I had it 5 years ago and almost died. Hard to diagnose but it was in my lungs and it was suffocating me. Absolutely terrible.
When my daughter was in 2nd grade she woke up in the middle of the night screaming bloody murder of a headache as if it was killing her ~something in me said it was something more than just a simple headache so with out hesitation I brought her up to the ER! Thank God I did and blessed WE were that Dr away the Dr order a spinal tap and from what they could tell she had bacteria menigitst so the put a pit in her arm and for months she had treatments! She now is a Junior in college! I'm so grateful God had me in the spirit to not second guess about bringing her into the ER, if I would of just given Tylenol she would not be with us today! 💞🙏👼🌈 #GodsGotUs
@soph9040 soph9040 we're not it was a blessing in disguise to exercise our Faith in Jesus teachings testimony for Christ and His works through Us I pray that this is time for Us to put Our Faith in Him! Salvation to,for,in,Each God bless! Sista~Luv 💞🙏👼🌈 #GodsGotUs
It's unbelievable that they still chose to travel and were allowed on a plane while ruling out some highly transmissible diseases. Really scary to think about how many people were, or could have been, exposed.
Life can change so fast!! You never think it will happen to you. Until it does. Stay safe everyone that reads this and be well!! Let's all come TOGETHER through this!!
I just wanted to say that related to the intake of the elderly man, when giving your (or a loved ones) history always give your doctors ALL the information you can. YOU may think something is irrelevant (like his lung issues, I don't know how that got left out) but even seemingly insignificant details can be the key piece of information that the doctor needs to make a correct and quick diagnosis. Details of pills, diet, digestion, lifestyle and habits can often be left out or anything someone may find embarrassing or shameful for example. Tell your doctor!
I was thinking the same.... It's very important to tell everything, even it seems stupid.... And many times the patient depends on family, because he nay not be feeling well enough to talk to the doctors
Pfft. No doctor has time for that. I recently broke the fifth metatarsal in my left foot, went to a doctor, who never even looked at my foot. He just wrote down my "self-diagnosis, and sent me to an X-Ray clinic, who sent me on to the emergency department at a hospital to get a cast put on. He never even told me to come in for a follow-up appointment. So, I haven't seen him since (August 22nd, 2023.). Will probably have to chop the cast of with an axe or something. This is exactly why I haven't seen any doctors in 16 years. They don't treat you. They just shuffle you off to another doctor, until they find the "right" specialist.
this is kind of interesting. my husband was infected with a fungus that ate a portion of his lung away and he went diagnosed for yars until he came down with pneumonia and was literally spewing blood out his mouth. in the end he had to have a portion of his lung removed in order to get rid of the fungus and prevent it from eating the rest of his lung away.
It's scary when you start with something simply annoying, then it ramps up to life threatening. Having a Doctor tell you when you walked into the ER, you had less than a week to live without extensive treatment really sucks. I lived...After three operations.
@@Stephen-cr3sc Even after your stated brush with death, you still choose to insult millions of good and intelligent people for their political views. Too bad you live to spread your toxicity.
I saw this a year ago, and if anything, I'm more aghast that a man who has a trip of a lifetime coming up, put off seeing a Dr so long, while his wife thinks serious side pain is from walking, and it takes coughing up blood before they consider seeking medical help. Then in Germany, they let Drs flounder without telling them about the side pain and the lung problems. We have a responsibility for our health too. I dont go to the Dr for every little thing, but this is crazy. Sorry for the bad sentence structure.😏
@cynthiatolman326: I completely agree with your wise words! It simply astonished me that the patient and his wife were so ignorant of the basic need to take care of themselves intelligently, as well as to communicate properly with those who are trying to save the man's life!? Absolutely shocking irresponsible behavior! By the way, your sentence structure is fine! I do not know what your native language is, but you write so well, and much better than a large percentage of English-speakers! 🌟
@@elainelessack It wasn't irresponsible. They said in the documentary that the patients didn't connect the dots. If they had, they would have said sonething. He had been feeling much better. Then he started feeling ill, and thought, because the symptoms were different, that this was something entirely new,
@annep.1905 : You are entitled to your own opinion, as am I. The lack of basic understanding and knowledge amongst many people simply astounds me! In the US, we call it the "Dumbing Down of America." I have lived for 72 years and had seen the beginning of the disdain for education in the mid-1960s. I am continually astounded that people let their health deteriorate by their own ignorance. That is my observation shared by many other well-educated people. A person who doesn't have access to advanced academics can certainly educate himself about basic health matters. It might be simply that the desire to acquire knowledge as a means of self-help and self-care does not seem important to some folks. Well, I do not wish to continue this subject of conversation any further. I am celebrating Christmas and do not want to write any longer. I hope that you are enjoying this holiday time.
@@elainelessack I am educated as well as you, probably better, in fact. And you certainly do not need to respond, if you do not wish to, but after you basically attacking my education and sense, I am unquestionably going to respond to you. Masking does not and can not keep out germs. If you want to keep pathogens out, you need a biohazard suit. Germs can fall in between the mask on your skin, or pass freely through the fabric of the mask, just as mosquitoes can pass through a chain-link fence. What masking does do is increase the risk of secondary infection from more dangerous bacterial diseases like Legionnaire's, and it can also give you hypoxemia because CO2 is heavier than oxygen (but the viruses expelled by you are not, and pass through masks quite freely). When covid went around, I did not get sick from it in 2020, but when people started getting the shot, they began going into stores, still masked, but sick, and coughing and sneezing everywhere they went. That was when I and my family contracted it. For that matter, my entire church managed to avoid it without masking... until the shot rolled out and people went out sick. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas as well, and that you will stop the masking nonsense. Much love! 🎄❤
This was interesting. When they said antibiotics didnt work I thought of viral/fungus meningitis. Then, they said Criptococcus, I grimaced as it was a topic I heavily studied for a recent exam. Then.. Cryptococcus neoformans gattii was mentioned and I inmediately knew this was going down. Certainly puts my knowledge to test while guessing how each case might evolve
There's some nasty fungal stuff out there you'd like to think that if antibiotics where having no effect and surely bacteria or viral infection will show up in cultures or microscope tests
Good luck with your training But remember you don't hold all the answers I had asthma drs just kept giving me stronger steroids. I found a breathing technique Dr Butenko I've been almost asthma free for 20 years. I had bad panic attacks Again they gave me tablets but I discovered the linden method I am cured. I don't trust drs
I was a victim of a fungal virus that came from the forest called Histoplasmosis. You get it by breathing in the spores that are released from bat poop. Most people who get it don't even know it and just think they've had a mild flu. There are no long-term effects in those cases. But when you get it badly, it can affect any/all of your organs. I was hospitalized and lost 25 pounds in two weeks! I had a fever for six months. Later on, I developed a post-viral disease called ME/CFS. It happened at an outdoor wedding. 130 people got sick; three hospitalized. One guy nearly died.
@@catherineportland503 I was at an outdoor wedding in a rural, woodsy area. Bats had made nests (unbeknown to any of us) high in the roof area of the church and most of stood under that area for some time. 126 people got sick; 3 of us were hospitalized. Doctors didn't know what we had, so we were quarantined and their best guess was Legionnaire's Disease! I was so sick! I lost 25 pounds in two weeks and was small to begin with. I have calcifications all over my lungs. In later years I got ME/CFS and we believe that's why.
So the CDC, while investigating around the trees, didn’t they think enough to wear protective gear while taking samples so that they themselves don’t get this rare fungus! Not to smart!!
A lot of these documentaries use actors and re enact the facts of the case, they wouldn't have all these stories on film and be able to film the patients and doctors treating them that would be against medical and privacy laws.
It's interesting and scary that this affected both humans and non human animals. It's a fungus, so it makes sense, but still. The fact that there was something that affected everyone is still kinda scary. I wonder how many other hidden killers there are out there that we don't know about because they're in certain, isolated areas
Those isolated areas are not so isolated as they once were. Due to climate change the glaciers and the perma frost are melting and exposing things buried away for eons.
I developed meningitis as a 14 yr old in 1969. I'm 68yo now and, to this day, remember the intense pain as if it was yesterday. Recovery meant around 5 months in hospital... can never forget that pain.....
Yes, me too. I had meningitis, in Canada in 2001. I hear the word and I can feel the pounding pain in the back of my neck and have to calm myself before I freak myself out. Mine started with the worst weirdest cough ever. I never went in for that cough though… hmmmm. I was SO sick for about a month before the meningitis started, and the cough started the day I got married. I had this horrible feeling that I was going to die and leave my new hubby, and didn’t want to scare him and was trying to “act normal”. I ended up being so sick I couldn’t even sit up or hold a cup to drink water myself. Then I seemed to get a little better for a couple days and that’s when the headache hit. I’ve always been a very happy person who plays down illness, and I was brought to four different ERs before they’d do the spinal tap because even though I had all the symptoms, they said I was too cheerful to be as sick as I appeared… I almost didn’t make it. But here I am, and I’m happy to be alive! 😊
Who thought such a beautiful natural place could have a killer lurking there . Was there in ‘75 hiking in many forests and Buchart Gardens . Beautiful!
New subscriber.... I've watched a lot of this channel over a few days it's really helped pass the time with something interesting especially during a time where we're all staying at home as much as possible. 👍👍
It Amazes me that none of the professionals collecting samples in the forest were wearing masks or any other protective gear while possibly disturbing the Fungus!😮😱
Correct, I was about to write this comment but then I read your comment. When doctors were examining a dead animal they were not wearing any kind of mask or gloves
I'm amazed they wandered through the forest collecting samples they were hoping Would contain this lung invasive killer and even worse when they discovered a tree known to have it, set up instruments to see how much was in the air to be breathed in, all testers had no PPA not even masks when they knew it was caught by breathing spores in .
Rathtrevor Park has thousands of visitors a year. I lived beside the park while this was going on. They likely had to take the risk, but get out of there asap. (My dog died from it) 😢
I think that this is a good exposition of what must have been, in reality, a challenging task to undertake. I am concerned that the experts who were collecting samples and those doing the tests are not wearing suitably protective gear, especially as they knew the fungus was airborne.
@@dianacurry6248 thank you for your comment. I didn't think of it being a recreation, and would agree that gloves would be completely unnecessary. However, using gloves, even in a recreation, is an accurate presentation of the events. It reminds watchers that using gloves, even new washing up gloves, makes the procedures cleaner.
There is no way that they went to collect the spores without wearing masks. The animals and the people had just gone there normally and caught it. They go collect and it's in the air and they go without protection? So they must have had some but they did not put them on for the film.
It's a reenactment are you really that naive? In real life PPE is protocol, even in labs. To save money and time, reenactments are to get the sense across but are hardly accurate to real life. Just like the ER scenes are not realistic either. They are just for visual hints.
This just a show and not accurate. For example look at where the xray was aimed certianly not where the lungs are. As far as a picture in the paper of the petri dish goes it certainly wasn't a petri dish of an active dangerous culture because that just isn't done for news crews and news papers.
I love the stories from this series but the frequency of ads kills me! In a video under 50 minutes there were 14 ad stops! That’s worse that cable at 3:00am!
Hi, I posted this as a response to a comment further down the line and I thought it might be interesting to others too. So here I go. Yours, Ann Hi, According to Canadian CDC the fungus has been found in a lot of places on Vancouver Island, on mainland Vancouver and the Pacific North West. There isn't any way to eradicate the fungus, and it's still not known how come it's there in the first place. Burning forests or chopping down trees is not advised. There aren't all that many cases every year about, 10-25 people, but the mortality rate for the infected that present at hospital is 16%. As usual it's the regular risk groups that are most susceptible. I.e people with a compromised immunsystems, those with lung diseases, people that smokes and older people. If you can call 50 years being older. This documentary is old. I remember seeing it around 10-15 years ago. It's very likely that they have simplified the material to make more of a story. Research data can be very boring to a lot of people. Remember that this "story" took place over 3 years. From the first case in 1999 up til 2002. Hence simplification. Yours Ann
EVERYDAY,EVERYDAY i just watched another show on 'pfisteria' which is a microbe (?) that feeds on fish, but somehow managed to infect humans and cause substantial damage. This happened in Maryland and North Carolina estuaries. They still haven't figured out how to help those fisherman with long term symptoms, short term they can be treated with a drug but symptoms have to be treated early. Presumably caused by swine feces that was visible from satellite images, that runs into these rivers. Frightening things that are affecting humans.
25:59 This process requires health care personnel to be responsive in keeping up to date with scientific research and being assertive in volunteering information. If this doc wasn't active in reading researchers, retaining info on past cases, and making the connection from past patients to new research, this piece of the information wouldn't have been provided and a piece of the puzzle is essentially lost. The CDC would have thought that this disease is new instead of 1 year old.
It's a reenactment so you can imagine what went on while they talk. It's not 100% accurate but it's as close as they can get. Hope this helps. I thought the same thing before I realized it's a controlled situation.
Hundreds of thousands of people visit that perk every year, I grew up there and everyone in my family live there and we’ve never known anyone that got it
Come on Angela....In all due respect, if you're an adult, surely you should know this is a reenactment with actors playing out the storyline, making the details easier to follow... *: )*
It's a TV show only for entertainment rather than really accurate procedures And the fungal spores are common in the right places and I'm guessing that not everyone becomes sick Comming into contact with it
Guys keep in mind that this is a reenactment. All of the questions about why they aren’t wearing masks and stuff is making me laugh. They also said names were changed so that’s another reason you guys should know it’s a reenactment.
I was born and lived on Vancouver Island until 2005 and never heard of this except guy I knew in Nanaimo came down with a mysterious illness and his doctor told him he had Lyme disease.
It's incredibly important to pay attention to the key problem in almost all of these kinds of cases. A DELAY in seeking treatment. You don't wait "days" to see a doctor with a high fever and raging headache. That's pretty much suicide - or in a case where someone else is responsible (like parents or a spouse), manslaughter.
My sister contracted this. Her friend got it as well,she didn't make it. They contracted it from hiking. Very strange disease,since I have always hiked in our forest for over 50 years and used to pick chanterelles.
i had bacterial meningitis in 1999 , it was horrible worst head pain ever, and them taking fluid from your brain, is a 'lumbar puncture' its a needle into your spine and was horrible to have done ( i had to have a mainline and antibiotics every 4 hours for nearly month!)
Wonder what the 2020 - 23 case numbers are. Thank you for the video. I note the warnings at the parks [signage displayed] do not indicate there have been some deaths as a result. That is critical information needing dissemination.
This is really interesting I heard one of my friends son passed away and Doctors couldn’t save his life ,it was so fast she said very young in his 20 -25 y old they diagnoses meningitis ....couldn’t even understand ....very interesting .....🌞
I cannot believe this family put Aurthur at serious risk by making him travel to another continent while he is very ill and coughing up blood !!!!! Surely, they could have postponed the trip, apparently the trip was more important. Shame on them!!!!!
@@mickieswendsen1302 Well, then they all should feel guilty. That kind of altitude with little or no mobility can cause blood clots and other medical problems. Aurthur should not have gone and he would most likely not have died.
Skype, Zoom or multiple voice call would seem like great ideas and help protect other air travel passengers. Is a jab or booster going to help the immune system fight it, possibly over react to it and become an autoimmune problem, or just help the fungus among us thrive? Were doomed, cheers.
Interesting! I moved to the island shortly after these cases started showing up. They were at the stage of knowing it was fungal but not the exact source. We were told to stay away from fungi growing around the base of trees!
My older brother contracted menagitis when he was a kid i think he was around 12 and he was ICU for 2 wks he almost died. The doctors said only thing that saved him was the fact that he was chubby so he was able to lose weight rapidly due to the menagitis without completely wasting away. I think he lost like 40 pounds or something like that in 2 wks it was scary. Anyone who had been around my brother had to take pills to help prevent us from getting menagitis. They said he contracted it by sharing a drink or cigarette or something with someone else.
Hi, I'm a bit confused. I've read a couple of comments saying menagitis. I'm from the UK. Are we talking the same? I know of meningitis (which l once contracted in my youth). Perhaps they are the same but spelt different 😊
The work they all did was amazing to watch! So crazy....but I guess this was necessary to wake up the medical world to take fungus much more serious than before. Incredible that the woods who have so much health bebefits suddenly turn on humans. Isnt it ironic? Australia was first and its scary that this fungus traveled so far! Amazing work of microbiologists and every scientist involved! 👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤
Those harbor porpoises live fairly close to land and breathe air. It's possible the fungal spores from the trees are carried out over the water by wind and the porpoises breathed them in when they surfaced.
Just to add, I was a microbiology technologist and phlebotomist when I worked in hospitals in New York and New Jersey during the 60s, 70s, and early 80s.
I got so sick overnight. My bathroom is 10 feet from my bed and i couldn't get back into my bed.just dragged blankets down to the floor so i could get sick( from both ends) on it instead of floor. My sister found me and took me to hospital. Idk where i was for 6 days. Turned out i was dangerously low in potassium and type 2 diabetic.....i do remember telling God i was ready to leave this world..
Doctors need repeat to their patients when prescribing or requesting over the counter medication. Doctors need to make sure of communication to their patients especially older physicians. Their should have a workshop for doctor communication to their patients.
It is absolutely unbelievable that those who are out in the forest taking samples of the air, do not wear masks or gloves. It's incredible that they didn't think that they could get sick.
It would have been very helpful if the Titanic had slowed the engines while passing the iceberg. Life is full of what ifs and what it would've beens. If we want to get through any catastrophe we need to focus on the what can be done not what could have or what wasn't.
So this video was 3 years ago....never heard of it before....I live in Europe and try to be informed about stuff like that. So did it eventually spread even further? How is the situation today? Was the park ever closed? I got a whole lot of questions now. If anyone can provide some answers, it would be very appreciated. But I will definately do some research on it! Stay save and blessed...❤
Originated in Australia and may be transported to Canada in Timber. Resistant in Au,ie rare deaths but not so resistant in Canada. New disease entering body until body defends against new threat.
Nature is never static. Even OLD Nature. So, every time the wind blows, the spores go for a ride. That park would have a lot of OLD growth trees. Plus, some people could be bringing in plants from Australia and sneaking those plants into the park. Nature is full of surprises.
Reading this now during the covid19 pandemic , I’m glad I wear a mask every time I go out . I’ve never been out of the state where i live in years . But this shows you never know what’s lurking to make you ill ... or kill you ......
Yeah but a lot of the fungi, bacteria, and the like are actually good. That’s the problem. Your micro biome is a working part of the immune system. Sterility is not a solution. I want viral exposure. I want bacteria on my skin and in my food. It crowds out the toxic bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
I caught an unknown devastating virus when gutting a deer. Within eight hours of gutting it, i got a pounding headache and high fever. I missed 5 work days, stuck in bed. No vomiting or diarrhea.
LOL! That’s how half of my microbiology class was by the time they finished the semester. Most of them wanted to lock themselves away and become vegans that lacked an intimate love life. Oh, the terrible things that exist in this world that one had no idea could kill us!
Don't you just love how the scientists that went out into the forest to find the cryptococcus didn't wear any protective gear, and they found massive amounts of the cryptococcus in the air? Their petri dishes were frigin' crawling with the fungus!
Yeah That's Crazy !! I was wondering the same thing...weren't they worried about contracting the illness and why weren't they wearing protective gear ??
To be fair they probably did in real life. Remember, these are reenactments. Perhaps they didn't think it was necessary. Perhaps the risk isn't as high. Don't know. Not a doctor or a biologist
Very interesting, but the intensive care unit which seemed to be in Germany was pretty american, although the words were german, its translation was wrong, it's called "Intensivstation" and "Rauchen verboten".
Spraying baking soda would result in the soil becoming alkaline and would impact healthy fungi to die also. Depending if the trees growing in the forest and PH of soil is acid by adding baking soda and spraying the trees will die. Most fungi require an acidic environment and what's such a beautiful forest could be decimated by this. However I can understand your theory of doing so. Like you I have no education in this field and reside in a rural farming community. Maybe someone who is qualified as a botanist can comment on this thread and to me a combined medical and environmental experts could most likely work on a solution to resolve the right to health. Common sense to me that if you are planning to take a stroll in the forest wear medical grade PPE masks. I pray that as we near the end of 2020 a solution could have been found. Stay safe everyone.
I agree with you they way humans are destroying the environment changing the climate interfering with crop and animal genitics thinking that we're clever and out smarting nature will come back against us This covid sars 2 plus the previous sars and mers is nothing vaccination against viruses are likely possible it's the bacterial and fungal ones that would scare me more With no new antibiotics discovered in the last 20 plus years means that bacteria will eventually completely outsmart medical science
i live in the states and about 2000 i was healthy. i got very sick for almost a year. thought i was going to die! i ended up having a fungus in my lungs. they put me on steroids after steroid for 11 months. it finally worked. but i am allergic to steroids then and now. it was horrible! i really thought i was going to die!
I was sick for over a year, and i also thought I would either die, or kill myself because it was so bad I couldn't imagine living the rest of my life like that!! Worst thing I've EVER been through, and I'm 41. Long story short, FINALLY found the problem!! I was being poisoned with lower levels of carbon monoxide!! It's absolutely unbelievable everything it did to my body. Now i shake all the time, but it's much better then feeling so sick!! Glad you figured yours out too!! Stay safe and be well!!
@@kristinowens899 bless you! yeah i was on all kind of antibiotics and i got worse. finally when all that was left was my lungs that was the tip off i guess. but that was the sickest ive ever been. im so sorry you had to go thru that! its so much worse than mine. PRAYERS!! and PRAYERS TO ALL~ WE ARE ALL DEALING WITH THE CORONA VIRUS. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. CALL AN ELDERLY NEIGHBOR? SEE IF THEY NEED ANYTHING? MAYBE ITS SOMETHING YOU DONT NEED OR USE? JUST LET THEM KNOW SOMEONE DOES CARE. I HAVE MY SON! HE IS MY BOULDER. SPREAD THE LOVE NOT THE VIRUS...
There are only a few hundred old growth trees remaining in the Canadian temperate rainforest. So few that they are, each and every one of them, registered. So rare they are precious. The forest pictured in this video is second growth, and not likely even a hundred years old.
Why aren't they contacting the hospital in CA. I get quickly frustrated when non-medical trained family members rely on their own judgment about what is important to mention to medical professionals.
Wao what a case! My two daughters are studying Microbiology and I just shared this video with them to encourage their effort at University.
I hope they enjoy this chapter as much as I did.
Congratulations to all the team envolved in solving this case. 🎉
Your daughter's should be very interested is this. This might help them if they research this for a paper in one of their classes. Good luck to your daughters.
WOW! What a rare surprise to see this episode from my home city in "Beautiful British Columbia", Canada. Dr. Polson, a phenomenally caring & wise Pulmonary specialist was my Dr in the Royal Jubilee Hospital while treating me for TB. I still thank God for BLESSING me with such excellent medical care from Dr. Neil Crofton, my phenomenal Family Doctor, Dr. Polson, nurses and all the medical staff @ Royal Jubilee Hospital along with my caring homecare nurses, throughout my long healing process. Please remember to pray for & THANK your medical caregivers for continually updating their intensive medical knowledge & providing such dedicated care in your times of need. I am soooo GRATEFUL for my Famly Doctor Dr. Neil Crofton's over 20 years of excellent care, & all the specialists he has sent me to.
I grew up in Redmond, WA, in the early 70's and 80's. We visited Victoria, B.C. I loved it all. My dad got transferred away from the northwest when I was younger. I miss it.
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Coughing up blood and he goes on a plane? Didn’t the Dr.warn against it?
For sure...
Interesting episode. I know this case happened in 2002, but it amazed me that none of the healthcare providers or BC CDC were wearing respiratory masks while they were looking for respiratory contaminants. 😷😷😷
Its a re-enactment. They didn’t just happen to have a film crew round 24/7 🙄
@@Yinyanchantthey don't think in every single detail..... They are actors...
I lived in BC from 1996 until 2005. I don't remember hearing about this at all. I didn't watch TV... but I worked in the health industry...
Exactly ! Seems fishy....the mask thing.
Yeah. You'd think the reenactment should be able to at least get that detail down. Iirc, 2002 was right in line for the anthrax scare, so wearing masks would absolutely have been a thing.
I love how the people in this show are always handling with highly contagious and dangerous pathogens without any PPE… like handling plates or sample tissues without gloves or masks, and constantly opening plates and moving them around just to look at them 😭😂
Man I was thinking the same thing, in fact freaking out, where is your masks, your gloves etc…..
I think they were actors acting with fake stuff for TV. But by no means is the story fake.
@@savantianprince ....re-enactments.
If my husband told me he was spitting up blood .We would be at the hospital .ASAP
Absolutely!
Spitting up blood is a bad sign...
I think it's because he walked a lot, I mean everybody who walks a lot has severe pain and coughs up blood, right?
@@cynthiatolman326 I always feel like I'm having a heart attack when I run the mile.🤷♀️
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We have something like this in Ontario called blastomycosis. I had it 5 years ago and almost died. Hard to diagnose but it was in my lungs and it was suffocating me. Absolutely terrible.
Glad you're okay now.
How did you get it? Is it also fungal?
@@ruthnyumu1731 it is fungal, lives in the soil. Stirred up through gardening most often or spores can become airborne around churning water
I sympathize with you because I went trough the similar condition.
@@sweeetseraph So glad to hear that you and Junior recovered !!
When my daughter was in 2nd grade she woke up in the middle of the night screaming bloody murder of a headache as if it was killing her ~something in me said it was something more than just a simple headache so with out hesitation I brought her up to the ER! Thank God I did and blessed WE were that Dr away the Dr order a spinal tap and from what they could tell she had bacteria menigitst so the put a pit in her arm and for months she had treatments! She now is a Junior in college! I'm so grateful God had me in the spirit to not second guess about bringing her into the ER, if I would of just given Tylenol she would not be with us today! 💞🙏👼🌈 #GodsGotUs
@soph9040 soph9040 we're not it was a blessing in disguise to exercise our Faith in Jesus teachings testimony for Christ and His works through Us I pray that this is time for Us to put Our Faith in Him! Salvation to,for,in,Each God bless! Sista~Luv 💞🙏👼🌈 #GodsGotUs
Wow!! Good job Momma!!
All the best always!
AMEN , THANK YOU LORD !!!!
AMEN YES HE DO! GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME AND ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!
The whole experience was nothing but testimony! 💞🙏👼🌈#GodsGotUs
It's unbelievable that they still chose to travel and were allowed on a plane while ruling out some highly transmissible diseases. Really scary to think about how many people were, or could have been, exposed.
This is pre COVID times when things were different
Right? Even if it was something that wasn't contagious, NOT KNOWING it wasn't, was really taking chances and putting others at risk.
Yeah, I thought the same thing.
That’s why for health and safety reasons, I’m not hiking. I prefer, on my days off, to grab some snacks and watch this show.
Life can change so fast!! You never think it will happen to you.
Until it does.
Stay safe everyone that reads this and be well!!
Let's all come TOGETHER through this!!
yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God bless you Kristin!
OMG...you sound like our damned PM..."we are a family of 5 million..remember to be kind"...VOMIT!
Pray to LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST because HE warned us that these horrible diseases would happen and would be a sign of end times.
Contact me I am devastated and alone
I just wanted to say that related to the intake of the elderly man, when giving your (or a loved ones) history always give your doctors ALL the information you can. YOU may think something is irrelevant (like his lung issues, I don't know how that got left out) but even seemingly insignificant details can be the key piece of information that the doctor needs to make a correct and quick diagnosis. Details of pills, diet, digestion, lifestyle and habits can often be left out or anything someone may find embarrassing or shameful for example. Tell your doctor!
You are absolutely correct. TELL your doctor everything you can think of, no matter how small you think it is - you could save a life 😊
I was thinking the same.... It's very important to tell everything, even it seems stupid.... And many times the patient depends on family, because he nay not be feeling well enough to talk to the doctors
I can forget large chunks of my history due to anxiety in doctor’s office. I’ve written my complaints out and bring that with me
And in turn, doctors should share test results with the patient.
Pfft. No doctor has time for that. I recently broke the fifth metatarsal in my left foot, went to a doctor, who never even looked at my foot. He just wrote down my "self-diagnosis, and sent me to an X-Ray clinic, who sent me on to the emergency department at a hospital to get a cast put on. He never even told me to come in for a follow-up appointment. So, I haven't seen him since (August 22nd, 2023.). Will probably have to chop the cast of with an axe or something. This is exactly why I haven't seen any doctors in 16 years. They don't treat you. They just shuffle you off to another doctor, until they find the "right" specialist.
this is kind of interesting. my husband was infected with a fungus that ate a portion of his lung away and he went diagnosed for yars until he came down with pneumonia and was literally spewing blood out his mouth. in the end he had to have a portion of his lung removed in order to get rid of the fungus and prevent it from eating the rest of his lung away.
Sounds like histoplasmosis, which can be and usually asymptomatic or no big deal, but occasionally lung resections are necessary.
Do u mean sars
Sounds like necrotizing fasciitis sometimes known as flesh eating bacteria
@@jonathanpoirot1022 NO, it does not!
@@rdtdababy859 NO, it is not SARS.
It's scary when you start with something simply annoying, then it ramps up to life threatening. Having a Doctor tell you when you walked into the ER, you had less than a week to live without extensive treatment really sucks. I lived...After three operations.
Still no masks.
Stephen I imagine. Glad it worked out for you.
@@tm13tube ......It's an ego thing for some, Republicans are most at risk.
@@Stephen-cr3sc Even after your stated brush with death, you still choose to insult millions of good and intelligent people for their political views. Too bad you live to spread your toxicity.
@@tepilahruach802 ......Your reply is confusing. Are you calling trumpies "good and intelligent people"?
Are you familiar with the word oxymoron?
I saw this a year ago, and if anything, I'm more aghast that a man who has a trip of a lifetime coming up, put off seeing a Dr so long, while his wife thinks serious side pain is from walking, and it takes coughing up blood before they consider seeking medical help. Then in Germany, they let Drs flounder without telling them about the side pain and the lung problems. We have a responsibility for our health too. I dont go to the Dr for every little thing, but this is crazy. Sorry for the bad sentence structure.😏
@cynthiatolman326: I completely agree with your wise words! It simply astonished me that the patient and his wife were so ignorant of the basic need to take care of themselves intelligently, as well as to communicate properly with those who are trying to save the man's life!? Absolutely shocking irresponsible behavior!
By the way, your sentence structure is fine! I do not know what your native language is, but you write so well, and much better than a large percentage of English-speakers! 🌟
@@elainelessack It wasn't irresponsible. They said in the documentary that the patients didn't connect the dots. If they had, they would have said sonething. He had been feeling much better. Then he started feeling ill, and thought, because the symptoms were different, that this was something entirely new,
@annep.1905 : You are entitled to your own opinion, as am I. The lack of basic understanding and knowledge amongst many people simply astounds me! In the US, we call it the "Dumbing Down of America." I have lived for 72 years and had seen the beginning of the disdain for education in the mid-1960s. I am continually astounded that people let their health deteriorate by their own ignorance. That is my observation shared by many other well-educated people. A person who doesn't have access to advanced academics can certainly educate himself about basic health matters. It might be simply that the desire to acquire knowledge as a means of self-help and self-care does not seem important to some folks.
Well, I do not wish to continue this subject of conversation any further. I am celebrating Christmas and do not want to write any longer. I hope that you are enjoying this holiday time.
@@elainelessack I am educated as well as you, probably better, in fact. And you certainly do not need to respond, if you do not wish to, but after you basically attacking my education and sense, I am unquestionably going to respond to you.
Masking does not and can not keep out germs. If you want to keep pathogens out, you need a biohazard suit. Germs can fall in between the mask on your skin, or pass freely through the fabric of the mask, just as mosquitoes can pass through a chain-link fence. What masking does do is increase the risk of secondary infection from more dangerous bacterial diseases like Legionnaire's, and it can also give you hypoxemia because CO2 is heavier than oxygen (but the viruses expelled by you are not, and pass through masks quite freely).
When covid went around, I did not get sick from it in 2020, but when people started getting the shot, they began going into stores, still masked, but sick, and coughing and sneezing everywhere they went. That was when I and my family contracted it. For that matter, my entire church managed to avoid it without masking... until the shot rolled out and people went out sick.
I hope you have a very Merry Christmas as well, and that you will stop the masking nonsense. Much love! 🎄❤
You did see it was a man, right? Men can not only lie to others but also themselves.
This was interesting.
When they said antibiotics didnt work I thought of viral/fungus meningitis. Then, they said Criptococcus, I grimaced as it was a topic I heavily studied for a recent exam. Then.. Cryptococcus neoformans gattii was mentioned and I inmediately knew this was going down. Certainly puts my knowledge to test while guessing how each case might evolve
There's some nasty fungal stuff out there you'd like to think that if antibiotics where having no effect and surely bacteria or viral infection will show up in cultures or microscope tests
Good luck with your training
But remember you don't hold all the answers
I had asthma drs just kept giving me stronger steroids.
I found a breathing technique Dr Butenko I've been almost asthma free for 20 years.
I had bad panic attacks
Again they gave me tablets but I discovered the linden method I am cured.
I don't trust drs
I don't understand why they said "flu-like symptoms that can't be treated by antibiotics" since antibiotics don't treat viruses.
Needed anti-fungal meds.
@@publicserviceannouncement4777 Yeah, no antibiotics help the flu.
I was a victim of a fungal virus that came from the forest called Histoplasmosis. You get it by breathing in the spores that are released from bat poop. Most people who get it don't even know it and just think they've had a mild flu. There are no long-term effects in those cases. But when you get it badly, it can affect any/all of your organs. I was hospitalized and lost 25 pounds in two weeks! I had a fever for six months. Later on, I developed a post-viral disease called ME/CFS. It happened at an outdoor wedding. 130 people got sick; three hospitalized. One guy nearly died.
Why didn't they seal off that tree
Where does bat poop come from. Hmmm lol
My friend had birds around his cattery house. He got it from birds. Histoplasmosis.
@@nancykennon310 Yep, it's from the spores that disperse off the bird poop, but was it from a bird species other than bats?
@@catherineportland503 I was at an outdoor wedding in a rural, woodsy area. Bats had made nests (unbeknown to any of us) high in the roof area of the church and most of stood under that area for some time. 126 people got sick; 3 of us were hospitalized. Doctors didn't know what we had, so we were quarantined and their best guess was Legionnaire's Disease! I was so sick! I lost 25 pounds in two weeks and was small to begin with. I have calcifications all over my lungs. In later years I got ME/CFS and we believe that's why.
So the CDC, while investigating around the trees, didn’t they think enough to wear protective gear while taking samples so that they themselves don’t get this rare fungus! Not to smart!!
Right!?!? What the hell??
This is a show made after the fact. Definitely, an oversight to not be wearing protective gear.
Shouldn't waste PPE to act out an event.
A lot of these documentaries use actors and re enact the facts of the case, they wouldn't have all these stories on film and be able to film the patients and doctors treating them that would be against medical and privacy laws.
LOL.... did not wear them ON THE SHOW, did in real life
This show was well done. I enjoyed it. Not being told of the people suffering, but the story of scientists' jobs.
It's interesting and scary that this affected both humans and non human animals. It's a fungus, so it makes sense, but still. The fact that there was something that affected everyone is still kinda scary. I wonder how many other hidden killers there are out there that we don't know about because they're in certain, isolated areas
Great! They can stay in isolated areas. Those are places you will not find me.
This must've been frightening. I'm happy that you are better now 😊
Those isolated areas are not so isolated as they once were.
Due to climate change the glaciers and the perma frost are melting and exposing things buried away for eons.
/ laboratories
It hasn’t affected everyone! Very few have been affected. And I’ll bet only a handful know about it!
Anytime you’re sick after a procedure, you tell the Dr. Also, they should hsve told him he had a biopsy pending in Vancouver.
I developed meningitis as a 14 yr old in 1969. I'm 68yo now and, to this day, remember the intense pain as if it was yesterday. Recovery meant around 5 months in hospital... can never forget that pain.....
Yes, me too. I had meningitis, in Canada in 2001. I hear the word and I can feel the pounding pain in the back of my neck and have to calm myself before I freak myself out. Mine started with the worst weirdest cough ever. I never went in for that cough though… hmmmm. I was SO sick for about a month before the meningitis started, and the cough started the day I got married. I had this horrible feeling that I was going to die and leave my new hubby, and didn’t want to scare him and was trying to “act normal”. I ended up being so sick I couldn’t even sit up or hold a cup to drink water myself. Then I seemed to get a little better for a couple days and that’s when the headache hit. I’ve always been a very happy person who plays down illness, and I was brought to four different ERs before they’d do the spinal tap because even though I had all the symptoms, they said I was too cheerful to be as sick as I appeared… I almost didn’t make it. But here I am, and I’m happy to be alive! 😊
Who thought such a beautiful natural place could have a killer lurking there . Was there in ‘75 hiking in many forests and Buchart Gardens . Beautiful!
New subscriber.... I've watched a lot of this channel over a few days it's really helped pass the time with something interesting especially during a time where we're all staying at home as much as possible. 👍👍
It Amazes me that none of the professionals collecting samples in the forest were wearing masks or any other protective gear while possibly disturbing the Fungus!😮😱
Correct, I was about to write this comment but then I read your comment. When doctors were examining a dead animal they were not wearing any kind of mask or gloves
@@MandeepSimranVlogsthe dog was alive
Well, they are actors playing doctors. So you know, it's not 100% accurate 🤷♀️
That’s the first thing I noticed also. What an absolutely horrifying experience!
I'm amazed they wandered through the forest collecting samples they were hoping Would contain this lung invasive killer and even worse when they discovered a tree known to have it, set up instruments to see how much was in the air to be breathed in, all testers had no PPA not even masks when they knew it was caught by breathing spores in .
Yeah I thought the same thing
I agree, I was even anxious about that! 😮
I thought the same thing. Very strange 🤔
Rathtrevor Park has thousands of visitors a year. I lived beside the park while this was going on. They likely had to take the risk, but get out of there asap. (My dog died from it) 😢
It is called PPE N0T PPA
Excellent reporting and detective work, thank you❤
I think that this is a good exposition of what must have been, in reality, a challenging task to undertake. I am concerned that the experts who were collecting samples and those doing the tests are not wearing suitably protective gear, especially as they knew the fungus was airborne.
@ynnej55 it is a re-creation.
@@dianacurry6248 thank you for your comment. I didn't think of it being a recreation, and would agree that gloves would be completely unnecessary. However, using gloves, even in a recreation, is an accurate presentation of the events. It reminds watchers that using gloves, even new washing up gloves, makes the procedures cleaner.
There is no way that they went to collect the spores without wearing masks. The animals and the people had just gone there normally and caught it. They go collect and it's in the air and they go without protection? So they must have had some but they did not put them on for the film.
It's a reenactment are you really that naive? In real life PPE is protocol, even in labs. To save money and time, reenactments are to get the sense across but are hardly accurate to real life. Just like the ER scenes are not realistic either. They are just for visual hints.
I was thinking the same. But they should ha e worn them, bad modelling for viewers not to.
They made the movie after the danger was over. The crew didn’t bother to make it authentic.
Michaela VanDuesen I don’t know about that. In the news article photo she was holding a petri dish without gloves.
This just a show and not accurate. For example look at where the xray was aimed certianly not where the lungs are.
As far as a picture in the paper of the petri dish goes it certainly wasn't a petri dish of an active dangerous culture because that just isn't done for news crews and news papers.
A high fever, should always be investigated by a hospital ASAP. 🤦♀️
Now this helped a lot explaining why in NZ, the biosecurity at the borders are very strict so to avoid disrupting the ecosystem...
And Aus. too.
@@geegnosis8888 absolutely...we are famous for it.
@3:20 If they went for air testing suspecting the organism in the air…they MUST have worn respiratory masks
I love the stories from this series but the frequency of ads kills me! In a video under 50 minutes there were 14 ad stops! That’s worse that cable at 3:00am!
Drag the red bar across to the end of the video, then click on the loop replay arrow. Gets rid of the ads.
@@TraumatisedKoala I wish that was true
@@JamesJones-cl3dx works for me 🤷♀️
@@JamesJones-cl3dx it's true but there is a certain way to do it and may take a few practice goes to get it right
Get an adblocker. I literally never get ads except on my phone.
Take a shot every time they say criptocaucus ! 🍻
Hi, I posted this as a response to a comment further down the line and I thought it might be interesting to others too. So here I go. Yours, Ann
Hi, According to Canadian CDC the fungus has been found in a lot of places on Vancouver Island, on mainland Vancouver and the Pacific North West. There isn't any way to eradicate the fungus, and it's still not known how come it's there in the first place. Burning forests or chopping down trees is not advised. There aren't all that many cases every year about, 10-25 people, but the mortality rate for the infected that present at hospital is 16%. As usual it's the regular risk groups that are most susceptible. I.e people with a compromised immunsystems, those with lung diseases, people that smokes and older people. If you can call 50 years being older.
This documentary is old. I remember seeing it around 10-15 years ago. It's very likely that they have simplified the material to make more of a story. Research data can be very boring to a lot of people. Remember that this "story" took place over 3 years. From the first case in 1999 up til 2002. Hence simplification. Yours Ann
Very interesting story. I learned much about the fungus called Cryptococcosis and what can causes it can do to humans and animals. Thank you.
EVERYDAY,EVERYDAY i just watched another show on 'pfisteria' which is a microbe (?) that feeds on fish, but somehow managed to infect humans and cause substantial damage. This happened in Maryland and North Carolina estuaries. They still haven't figured out how to help those fisherman with long term symptoms, short term they can be treated with a drug but symptoms have to be treated early. Presumably caused by swine feces that was visible from satellite images, that runs into these rivers. Frightening things that are affecting humans.
Karen Acton the fish disease is caused by a dinoflagellate.
45:18 this warning sign is a JOKE, won't scare 99% of the people .. Advisory my @ss .. it didn't even have the word "warning"
Ha ha, me too
@@karenacton3854 omg, I have to go look at this now, thanks
My aunt is a nurse and she treated a guy in her ward (he passed away) but he had the fungus and told me about it... years ago
Lord have mercy 🙏🏿
Excellent presentation, free from sensationalism, informative, and with superb low-key, crystal clear narration. Bravo.
Thank you responders you are world of Savior's. Very appreciated your time and channel.
25:59
This process requires health care personnel to be responsive in keeping up to date with scientific research and being assertive in volunteering information.
If this doc wasn't active in reading researchers, retaining info on past cases, and making the connection from past patients to new research, this piece of the information wouldn't have been provided and a piece of the puzzle is essentially lost.
The CDC would have thought that this disease is new instead of 1 year old.
This happened over 20 years ago
I'm so shocked that professionals collected samples without masks !!
It's a reenactment so you can imagine what went on while they talk. It's not 100% accurate but it's as close as they can get. Hope this helps. I thought the same thing before I realized it's a controlled situation.
Hundreds of thousands of people visit that perk every year, I grew up there and everyone in my family live there and we’ve never known anyone that got it
Come on Angela....In all due respect, if you're an adult, surely you should know this is a reenactment with actors playing out the storyline, making the details easier to follow... *: )*
I hope it's not what they actually do and it's just this episode of diagnosis unknown because I think it's a reenactment
It's a TV show only for entertainment rather than really accurate procedures
And the fungal spores are common in the right places and I'm guessing that not everyone becomes sick Comming into contact with it
Guys keep in mind that this is a reenactment. All of the questions about why they aren’t wearing masks and stuff is making me laugh. They also said names were changed so that’s another reason you guys should know it’s a reenactment.
Purely for entertainment purposes
Ever so
😂
But the illness is real.....
Are you sure they weren't doing the re-enactment in the park ??! LOL !!
I was born and lived on Vancouver Island until 2005 and never heard of this except guy I knew in Nanaimo came down with a mysterious illness and his doctor told him he had Lyme disease.
Which it could well have been Lyme mostly comes from infected deer ticks im guessing there's lots of those there
Nanaimo is on the West side of Vancouver Island.
@@klattalexis I lived in Victoria for 55 years so I think I know where Nanaimo is!
@@klattalexis Check the map, my friend. Or invest in a compass.
It's incredibly important to pay attention to the key problem in almost all of these kinds of cases. A DELAY in seeking treatment. You don't wait "days" to see a doctor with a high fever and raging headache. That's pretty much suicide - or in a case where someone else is responsible (like parents or a spouse), manslaughter.
My sister contracted this. Her friend got it as well,she didn't make it. They contracted it from hiking. Very strange disease,since I have always hiked in our forest for over 50 years and used to pick chanterelles.
Damn so the friend didn’t made it that sad
It's the trees fighting us back, for deforestation. They're coming for us all, _run!_ 😂😂
@@Digitalhunny Apparently so-when the bite is worse than their BARK. :P
@@karrskarr - You're a genius, that was beautiful. Thank you for the giggles. 🤗
How is it picked up then
i had bacterial meningitis in 1999 , it was horrible worst head pain ever, and them taking fluid from your brain, is a 'lumbar puncture' its a needle into your spine and was horrible to have done ( i had to have a mainline and antibiotics every 4 hours for nearly month!)
Wonder what the 2020 - 23 case numbers are. Thank you for the video. I note the warnings at the parks [signage displayed] do not indicate there have been some deaths as a result. That is critical information needing dissemination.
I remember this when it happened. The park being referred to is Rathtrevor Beach, just outside of Parksville.
To all the Dr SIR, you're so amazingly researchers treatment dieses prevention save humanity life. God bless Dr. Longevity . Amend. From AUSTRALIA.
This is really interesting I heard one of my friends son passed away and Doctors couldn’t save his life ,it was so fast she said very young in his 20 -25 y old they diagnoses meningitis ....couldn’t even understand ....very interesting .....🌞
I cannot believe this family put Aurthur at serious risk by making him travel to another continent while he is very ill and coughing up blood !!!!! Surely, they could have postponed the trip, apparently the trip was more important. Shame on them!!!!!
THEY didn't MAKE him fly to Germany. Even his Dr. Knew he was going.
@@mickieswendsen1302 Well, then they all should feel guilty. That kind of altitude with little or no mobility can cause blood clots and other medical problems. Aurthur should not have gone and he would most likely not have died.
Skype, Zoom or multiple voice call would seem like great ideas and help protect other air travel passengers.
Is a jab or booster going to help the immune system fight it, possibly over react to it and become an autoimmune problem, or just help the fungus among us thrive?
Were doomed, cheers.
Interesting! I moved to the island shortly after these cases started showing up. They were at the stage of knowing it was fungal but not the exact source. We were told to stay away from fungi growing around the base of trees!
My older brother contracted menagitis when he was a kid i think he was around 12 and he was ICU for 2 wks he almost died. The doctors said only thing that saved him was the fact that he was chubby so he was able to lose weight rapidly due to the menagitis without completely wasting away. I think he lost like 40 pounds or something like that in 2 wks it was scary. Anyone who had been around my brother had to take pills to help prevent us from getting menagitis. They said he contracted it by sharing a drink or cigarette or something with someone else.
2x as a nurse I've been in contact with patients so contagious I've had to take prophylactic antibiotics. Very scary indeed.
I think that what your brother had was possibly "meningococcal meningitis".
Hi, I'm a bit confused. I've read a couple of comments saying menagitis. I'm from the UK. Are we talking the same? I know of meningitis (which l once contracted in my youth). Perhaps they are the same but spelt different 😊
@@jacquelinehall6198there are different types of meningitis 😢
The work they all did was amazing to watch! So crazy....but I guess this was necessary to wake up the medical world to take fungus much more serious than before. Incredible that the woods who have so much health bebefits suddenly turn on humans. Isnt it ironic? Australia was first and its scary that this fungus traveled so far! Amazing work of microbiologists and every scientist involved! 👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤
Those harbor porpoises live fairly close to land and breathe air. It's possible the fungal spores from the trees are carried out over the water by wind and the porpoises breathed them in when they surfaced.
Just to add, I was a microbiology technologist and phlebotomist when I worked in hospitals in New York and New Jersey during the 60s, 70s, and early 80s.
Thank you for the update! Now here’s your 🍪
I was a microbiology lab tech in Toronto and Kitchener.😊
Doctors are our real heroes 💪
With the exception of orthopedics & obstetrics doctors are nothing more than drug dealers for big pharmaceutical companies
Are you NUTS!!! Their over prescription of drugs are the largest cause of deaths.Check it out.
Veterinarians too.
Some, some kill people, with their arrogance and incompetence
I got so sick overnight. My bathroom is 10 feet from my bed and i couldn't get back into my bed.just dragged blankets down to the floor so i could get sick( from both ends) on it instead of floor. My sister found me and took me to hospital. Idk where i was for 6 days. Turned out i was dangerously low in potassium and type 2 diabetic.....i do remember telling God i was ready to leave this world..
Doctors need repeat to their patients when prescribing or requesting over the counter medication. Doctors need to make sure of communication to their patients especially older physicians. Their should have a workshop for doctor communication to their patients.
What a frightening story!!😮
I’m from nanaimo (on vancouver island) and I remember hearing about this but I was never really worried.
Ah nanimo. I'm a big fan of your bars.
It is absolutely unbelievable that those who are out in the forest taking samples of the air, do not wear masks or gloves. It's incredible that they didn't think that they could get sick.
actors
it would have been very helpful if his gp had informed him or family of the biopsy results sooner.
It would have been very helpful if the Titanic had slowed the engines while passing the iceberg. Life is full of what ifs and what it would've beens. If we want to get through any catastrophe we need to focus on the what can be done not what could have or what wasn't.
Biopsy testing & results can take a few days to return, by which time the couple had already left on their holiday.
"I think it's in the air around these trees. Let's go out the without respirators and take samples."
Thanks for hilighting this desease
So this video was 3 years ago....never heard of it before....I live in Europe and try to be informed about stuff like that. So did it eventually spread even further? How is the situation today? Was the park ever closed? I got a whole lot of questions now. If anyone can provide some answers, it would be very appreciated. But I will definately do some research on it!
Stay save and blessed...❤
I'm from Vancouver and I've never heard of this, my mum's also born and raised here and has also never heard of it.. educate the public my ass!! Wtf!?
Go to: KNOW THE CAUSE!
EXACTLY !!! Smells like a bit of a cover-up....??
After watching several of these shows with fungus ticks ect im so glad i live in England.
Cloves Always. .
I am 63 and live in Australia, I have never heard of Cryptococcosis. Very interesting episode.
Considering how rare it is. I doubt many people have heard of it. Even the "professionals" barely have heard it according to this show.
They really don;t make such high quality medical documentaries anymore!
This was from a long time ago wtf are you talking about?
This really isn't a high quality medical/science documentar.
So I wonder what your meaning is.
Love that the dude collecting samples isn't wearing a mask......hello, is airborne.....lol
..and the techs, ditto at necropsies. Where were the consultants on this??
How long did it take for the fungus to migrate and be present in enough concentrations to cause this “sudden” outbreak? I need more info.
Originated in Australia and may be transported to Canada in Timber. Resistant in Au,ie rare deaths but not so resistant in Canada. New disease entering body until body defends against new threat.
Nature is never static. Even OLD Nature.
So, every time the wind blows, the spores go for a ride.
That park would have a lot of OLD growth trees. Plus, some people could be bringing in plants from Australia and sneaking those plants into the park. Nature is full of surprises.
Reading this now during the covid19 pandemic , I’m glad I wear a mask every time I go out . I’ve never been out of the state where i live in years . But this shows you never know what’s lurking to make you ill ... or kill you ......
Yeah but a lot of the fungi, bacteria, and the like are actually good. That’s the problem. Your micro biome is a working part of the immune system. Sterility is not a solution. I want viral exposure. I want bacteria on my skin and in my food. It crowds out the toxic bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
@@Emily-me So Right.
I caught an unknown devastating virus when gutting a deer. Within eight hours of gutting it, i got a pounding headache and high fever. I missed 5 work days, stuck in bed. No vomiting or diarrhea.
Watching a few episodes of this show and you'll be afraid to leave your house!!! I think we'll end up wearing face masks forever!! 😷
Same
LOL! That’s how half of my microbiology class was by the time they finished the semester. Most of them wanted to lock themselves away and become vegans that lacked an intimate love life. Oh, the terrible things that exist in this world that one had no idea could kill us!
Don't be silly that makes too much sense!
@@Aiijuin 😂 I bet! 😂
@@Aiijuin
Crime rate, nasty critters, fungus...
not wanting to work are all very good reasons to stay inside.
Don't you just love how the scientists that went out into the forest to find the
cryptococcus didn't wear any protective gear, and they found massive amounts
of the cryptococcus in the air? Their petri dishes were frigin' crawling with the
fungus!
Yeah That's Crazy !!
I was wondering the same thing...weren't they worried about contracting the illness and why weren't they wearing protective gear ??
Why didn't they have hazmat suites on collecting? 😲
46:15: CUTE LITTLE FISH! I love them.
I wonder why the researchers don’t wear masks to protect themselves
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To build up immunity for it
To be fair they probably did in real life. Remember, these are reenactments. Perhaps they didn't think it was necessary. Perhaps the risk isn't as high. Don't know. Not a doctor or a biologist
That’s kinda scary! I just moved to Vancouver island like an hour away from Victoria!
love how the xray is backwards :P
Zoe A Also the X-ray was taken with the patient sitting on a gurney with no film behind him for the image!
Wow - one never knows what's truly in your environment.
Duh?? How could you 😂😂
I had wanted one day to go to Victoria on the island for a class, that’s not going to happen now. Scary
Very interesting, but the intensive care unit which seemed to be in Germany was pretty american, although the words were german, its translation was wrong, it's called "Intensivstation" and "Rauchen verboten".
An "autopsy" on an animal is called a necropsy. Now you know...
Spraying baking soda would result in the soil becoming alkaline and would impact healthy fungi to die also.
Depending if the trees growing in the forest and PH of soil is acid by adding baking soda and spraying the trees will die.
Most fungi require an acidic environment and what's such a beautiful forest could be decimated by this.
However I can understand your theory of doing so.
Like you I have no education in this field and reside in a rural farming community.
Maybe someone who is qualified as a botanist can comment on this thread and to me a combined medical and environmental experts could most likely work on a solution to resolve the right to health.
Common sense to me that if you are planning to take a stroll in the forest wear medical grade PPE masks.
I pray that as we near the end of 2020 a solution could have been found.
Stay safe everyone.
What about now? Several forest fires since 2001 or 2002 this case in over 20 years old. Hope its gone by now and/or everyone's immune to it. Wow 😢
Believerin Christ, my comment to you is 👆. I'm too lazy to type it out again.
We really messed up our planet.
Mother earth is not going to take MUCH more!
I agree with you they way humans are destroying the environment changing the climate interfering with crop and animal genitics thinking that we're clever and out smarting nature will come back against us
This covid sars 2 plus the previous sars and mers is nothing vaccination against viruses are likely possible it's the bacterial and fungal ones that would scare me more
With no new antibiotics discovered in the last 20 plus years means that bacteria will eventually completely outsmart medical science
You are so right ! She is fighting back !!
Interesting & informative💥 presented in detail 💥🏆 Thank you⚘♥️
i live in the states and about 2000 i was healthy. i got very sick for almost a year. thought i was going to die! i ended up having a fungus in my lungs. they put me on steroids after steroid for 11 months. it finally worked. but i am allergic to steroids then and now. it was horrible! i really thought i was going to die!
I was sick for over a year, and i also thought I would either die, or kill myself because it was so bad I couldn't imagine living the rest of my life like that!! Worst thing I've EVER been through, and I'm 41.
Long story short, FINALLY found the problem!! I was being poisoned with lower levels of carbon monoxide!!
It's absolutely unbelievable everything it did to my body.
Now i shake all the time, but it's much better then feeling so sick!!
Glad you figured yours out too!!
Stay safe and be well!!
@@kristinowens899 bless you! yeah i was on all kind of antibiotics and i got worse. finally when all that was left was my lungs that was the tip off i guess. but that was the sickest ive ever been. im so sorry you had to go thru that! its so much worse than mine. PRAYERS!! and PRAYERS TO ALL~ WE ARE ALL DEALING WITH THE CORONA VIRUS. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. CALL AN ELDERLY NEIGHBOR? SEE IF THEY NEED ANYTHING? MAYBE ITS SOMETHING YOU DONT NEED OR USE? JUST LET THEM KNOW SOMEONE DOES CARE. I HAVE MY SON! HE IS MY BOULDER. SPREAD THE LOVE NOT THE VIRUS...
Why don't those lab techs wear protective gear when handling these lab samples!!!
Ohh great... I live on Vancouver Island.
Wow what a life cycle. SCIENCE IS INTERESTING !
So did they close that public park down??
This is why Forrest fires are sometimes beneficial
There are only a few hundred old growth trees remaining in the Canadian temperate rainforest. So few that they are, each and every one of them, registered. So rare they are precious. The forest pictured in this video is second growth, and not likely even a hundred years old.
21:25 Borneo is not normally considered to be in the South Pacific. It is north of the equator (just) and in the Western Pacific.
These are a bit slow-moving but they're sure interesting.
I always watch in 2 times speed.
What the hell do you want a rap video??
@@terrenceyoung6083 lmao
Dude wtf? Is documentary. Not a epic film . Stupid
Why aren't they contacting the hospital in CA. I get quickly frustrated when non-medical trained family members rely on their own judgment about what is important to mention to medical professionals.