5 Terrifying Lab Leaks That Actually Happened

In August 1967, the idyllic town of Marburg, Germany, became the epicenter of a mysterious and deadly outbreak. Individuals inexplicably started experiencing muscle pain, headaches, malaise, and rapidly increasing body temperatures.

Initially baffled, medical officials contained the first patients to their homes, treating them in isolation to control the potential spread of a virus. However, as symptoms intensified, the infected were transferred to university hospitals in Marburg and Frankfurt for close monitoring. Fever and bleeding from various orifices marked a terrifying progression of the illness.

Despite containment efforts, the infection ravaged their bodies, and within a week, many patients faced severe hemorrhagic shock. Officials raced against time to identify the elusive virus and prevent further infections.

A breakthrough came when a pathology technician contracted the virus after accidentally cutting himself during a postmortem examination. This discovery suggested bloodborne transmission. Epidemiologists then traced the infection to employees of a vaccine manufacturer named Behringwerke and an institute that handled similar substances. The common link: contact with blood and organs of African Green Monkeys recently imported from Uganda.

Investigators speculated that the monkeys were infected in Uganda or possibly in London during temporary storage with other animals.

With the source and transmission method identified, the virus was finally contained.

This virus was later named the Marburg Virus after the city where it was first discovered. The 1967 outbreak recorded 32 confirmed cases and 7 deaths, but Marburg's deadly legacy was far from over...

[AztecExtra]

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

[RazielTheLost]

so every time this happens they "tighten security and safety" but they never make the obvious conclusion that maybe they shouldn't be containing such things near human or animal habitat where a containment breach costs lives...

[mikegeary]

Don’t forget those anthrax spores that leaked out of a government lab into envelopes that ended up with the two Congressmen who opposed the patriot act. That was crazy man.

[beaumershon]

You forgot one. It started about 3 years ago... Somewhere in China...

[danstrikker]

Forgot the one that happened in China in late 2019

[DavidFox]

Remember when lab leaks were a conspiracy theory? Good times 🤣🤡🌎

[abikeanditsboy]

Let's talk about the elephant in the room. I wonder why Wuhan was left off the list? I guess we're still not allowed to talk about that, eh?

[KGNhite]

And the reason Covid 19 isn't on this list is because...?

[fukukyun]

You missed corona... which will surely come out in videos down the road as one of the most destructive lab leaks of all time lol

[JoeRyMi]

Seen CDG in person once. Normal young woman became completely unresponsive to stimuli in less than two weeks. Was really heart breaking.

[mikecronis]

Yoda looking up, "There is.. another.."

[cameronshultz]

Regarding the Sverdlovsk leak, there's a great book written by Dr. Ken Alibek, he was the head of the Soviet bioweapons program for many years before defecting to the US. He wrote about this incident in his book.
The book is called "The True Story of The Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program- Told From Inside by the Man Who Ran It"

[BatCaveOz]

I came here for the comments.
It looks like early comments regarding a recent virus of "unknown origin" may have been curated.

[GhostBusters-wbun]

Tragic for the person that got a scratch and got the virus but at least Germany was able to stop the virus from becoming a pandemic

[Frankieb]

COVID 19 should be included in this list.

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00:08 - 1967 Margburg Outbreak
02:38 - 1977 Russian Flu
05:41 - 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Leak
09:00 - Prion Research Leak
12:03 - 1978 UK Smallpox Outbreak

[tripbreaker]

I remember my first lab outbreak. Those were the days…

[raidersdfence]

if you believe the numbers of fatalites reported, I think those numbered are greatly under reported to avoid unavoidable panic for starters that

[Disturbed]

Umm seems to me that you have left out the biggest lab leak of them all 🙃

[MindTrip]

Thank you so much for making these videos. Longtime follower. Kept my obsession with conspiracies always intrigued and never biased. 🙏🏽